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TABLE 1—DIFENACOUM PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR CANCELLATION

Registration No. Product name Company 

36488–63 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Block IV ....................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

36488–64 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Place Packs IV ............................................................................ Woodstream Corporation. 

36488–65 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Pellets IV ..................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

36488–66 ................ Technical Difenacoum ............................................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–12 ................ Difenacoum Technical ............................................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–14 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Pellets .......................................................................................... Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–16 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Block ............................................................................................ Woodstream Corporation. 

47629–17 ................ Difenacoum Rat and Mouse Place Packs ................................................................................. Woodstream Corporation. 

Table 2 of this unit includes the 

names and addresses of record for the 

registrant of the products listed in Table 

1 of this unit, in sequence by EPA 

company number. This number 

corresponds to the first part of the EPA 

registration numbers of the products 

listed in Table 1 of this unit. 

TABLE 2—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION AND/OR AMENDMENTS

EPA Company No. Company name and address 

36488 .............................................. Woodstream Corporation, 69 N Locust St., P.O. Box 327, Lititz, PA 17543. 

47629 .............................................. Woodstream Corporation, 69 N Locust St., P.O. Box 327, Lititz, PA 17543. 

IV. What is the Agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 

136d(f)(1)) provides that a registrant of 

a pesticide product may at any time 

request that any of its pesticide 

registrations be canceled or amended to 

terminate one or more uses. FIFRA 

further provides that, before acting on 

the request, EPA must publish a notice 

of receipt of any such request in the 

Federal Register. 

Section 6(f)(1)(B) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 

136d(f)(1)(B)) requires that before acting 

on a request for voluntary cancellation, 

EPA must provide a 30-day public 

comment period on the request for 

voluntary cancellation or use 

termination. In addition, FIFRA section 

6(f)(1)(C) (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)(C)) 

requires that EPA provide a 180-day 

comment period on a request for 

voluntary cancellation or termination of 

any minor agricultural use before 

granting the request, unless: 

1. The registrants request a waiver of 

the comment period, or 

2. The EPA Administrator determines 

that continued use of the pesticide 

would pose an unreasonable adverse 

effect on the environment. 

Since difenacoum is not registered for 

minor agricultural use, the provision for 

a 180-day comment period does not 

apply. Accordingly, EPA will provide a 

30-day comment period on the proposed 

requests. 

V. Procedures for Withdrawal of 

Requests 

Registrants who choose to withdraw a 

request for product cancellation or use 

deletion should submit the withdrawal 

in writing to the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. If the 

products have been subject to a previous 

cancellation action, the effective date of 

cancellation and all other provisions of 

any earlier cancellation action are 

controlling. 

VI. Provisions for Disposition of 

Existing Stocks 

Existing stocks are those stocks of 

registered pesticide products that are 

currently in the United States and that 

were packaged, labeled, and released for 

shipment prior to the effective date of 

the action. If the requests for voluntary 

cancellation are granted, the Agency 

intends to publish the cancellation 

order in the Federal Register. 

In any order issued in response to 

these requests for cancellation of 

product registrations, EPA proposes to 

include the following provisions for the 

treatment of any existing stocks of the 

products listed in Table 1 of Unit III. 

For these voluntary product 

cancellations, the registrant will be 

permitted to sell and distribute existing 

stocks of voluntarily canceled products 

until October 18, 2019, which is two 

years from the date of the 90-day 

response to the GDCI, as requested by 

the registrant. Thereafter, the registrant 

will be prohibited from selling or 

distributing the products identified in 

Table 1 of Unit III., except for export 

consistent with FIFRA section 17 

(7 U.S.C. 136o) or for proper disposal. 

Persons other than the registrant may 

sell, distribute, or use existing stocks of 

canceled products until supplies are 

exhausted, provided that such sale, 

distribution, or use is consistent with 

the terms of the previously approved 

labeling on, or that accompanied, the 

canceled products. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: June 4, 2018. 

Yu-Ting Guilaran, 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0278; FRL–9978–55] 

Ortho-Phthalaldehyde; Receipt of 

Application for Emergency Exemption, 

Solicitation of Public Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has received a specific 

exemption request from the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA) to use the pesticide orthophthalaldehyde (OPA) (CAS No. 643– 

79–8) to treat the coolant fluid of the 

internal active thermal control system of 

the International Space Station to 

control aerobic/microaerophilic bacteria 

in the aqueous coolant. The applicant 

proposes the use of a chemical which is 

not registered by EPA. Accordingly, as 

required by the Code of Federal 

Regulations, EPA is publishing this 

notice of receipt to allow public 

comment. 

DATES: Because of the long lead time 

required for acquiring and sending 

products to the International Space 

Station (ISS), and because this is a 


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repeat of a previously-approved 

emergency exemption request, EPA has 

approved NASA’s request in advance of 

publication of this Notice in accordance 

with 40 CFR 166.24(c). Accordingly, 

there is no prescribed period for 

submitting comments. EPA still 

welcomes public comment on the 

request, and notes that EPA’s 

regulations provide that an emergency 

exemption may be modified or revoked 

if, among other things, additional 

information indicates that the product 

may cause unreasonable adverse effects 

or may not be effective at controlling the 

target pests. Accordingly, the Agency 

will review all comments received in 

response to this Notice, and consider 

whether any such comments identify a 

need for modification or revocation of 

the specific exemption. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0278, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Do not submit electronically 

any information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at https://

www.epa.gov/dockets/where-sendcomments-epa-dockets. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael L. Goodis, Registration Division 

(7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001; main telephone number: 

(703) 305–7090; email address: 

RDFRNotices@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are a pesticide 

manufacturer (NAICS code 32532) or 

involved with the International Space 

Station. This listing is not intended to 

be exhaustive, but rather provides a 

guide for readers regarding entities 

likely to be affected by this action. Other 

types of entities not listed could also be 

affected. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly 

mark the part or all of the information 

that you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to 

achieve environmental justice, the fair 

treatment and meaningful involvement 

of any group, including minority and/or 

low-income populations, in the 

development, implementation, and 

enforcement of environmental laws, 

regulations, and policies. To help 

address potential environmental justice 

issues, the Agency seeks information on 

any groups or segments of the 

population who, as a result of their 

location, cultural practices, or other 

factors, may have atypical or 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health impacts or environmental 

effects from exposure to the pesticide(s) 

discussed in this document, compared 

to the general population. 

II. What action is the Agency taking? 

Under section 18 of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136p), at the 

discretion of the EPA Administrator, a 

Federal or State agency may be 

exempted from any provision of FIFRA 

if the EPA Administrator determines 

that emergency conditions exist which 

require the exemption. NASA has 

requested the EPA Administrator to 

issue a specific exemption for the use of 

ortho-phthalaldehyde (OPA) in the 

coolant of the internal active thermal 

control system (IATCS) of the 

International Space Station (ISS) to 

control aerobic/microaerophilic bacteria 

in the aqueous coolant. Information in 

accordance with 40 CFR part 166 was 

submitted as part of this request. 

As part of this request, the applicant 

stated that it has considered the 

registered biocide alternatives and has 

concluded that OPA is the most 

effective biocide which meets the 

requisite criteria including: The need for 

safe, non-intrusive implementation and 

operation in a functioning system; the 

ability to control existing planktonic 

and biofilm-residing micro-organisms; a 

negligible impact on system-wetted 

materials of construction; and a 

negligible reactivity with existing 

coolant additives. The ISS would not 

have an adequate long-term solution for 

controlling the micro-organisms in the 

IATCS coolant without the use of OPA. 

The OPA is incorporated into a porous 

resin material contained in a stainlesssteel canister. The canister containing 

the OPA-incorporated resin is inserted 

into a coolant system loop, using 

flexible hose and quick disconnects, and 

is placed in-line for 8 hours to deliver 

the OPA into the fluid. As the coolant 

fluid flows through the canister, the 

OPA elutes from the resin material into 

the coolant fluid. The total volume of 

the circulatory loops of the IATCS is 

829 liters. The maximum concentration 

would be 500 mg of OPA per liter of 

coolant fluid. A total of 414,500 mg of 

OPA would be needed for the entire 

system. The OPA is incorporated into 

the resin at 210 mg OPA per cm3 resin, 

resulting in a potential total use of 1,974 

cm3 of the OPA-containing resin. The 

level of OPA in the coolant is monitored 

periodically, and because OPA degrades 

over time, the concentration decreases 

to a level that is no longer effective in 

about 1 to 2 years. At this point, 

replenishment with new OPAcontaining canisters is required. EPA 

has authorized similar emergency 

exemptions for this use since 2011. 

With the decision to extend the mission 

of the ISS to 2024, the need for this use 

is expected to continue for the duration. 

Previous notices of applications for 

emergency exemptions for this same use 

of OPA in the ISS IATCS have not 

elicited significant substantive 

comment. Owing to NASA’s need for an 

expedited decision, the negligible 

human and environmental exposures 

expected from the proposed emergency 

use, and the absence of registered 

alternatives that meet the ISS IATCS 

criteria, EPA has approved this 

emergency exemption request prior to 

receipt of public comments, consistent 

with 40 CFR 166.24(c). EPA’s 

regulations provide that an emergency 

exemption may be modified or revoked 

if, among other things, additional 

information indicates that the product 


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may cause unreasonable adverse effects 

or may not be effective at controlling the 

target pests. Accordingly, EPA still 

welcomes comments on this request and 

will review all comments received in 

response to this Notice, and consider 

whether any such comments identify a 

need for modification or revocation of 

the specific exemption. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: June 6, 2018. 

Michael L. Goodis, 

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2018–0209; FRL–9979–03– 

OEI] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Extension of Comment 

Period; Cross-State Air Pollution Rule 

and Texas SO2 Trading Programs 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) issued a notice in the 

Federal Register of April 16, 2018, 

opening a 60-day comment period for an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Cross-State Air Pollution Rule and 

Texas SO2 Trading Programs (Renewal), 

that EPA is planning to submit to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA). Although the 

notice published in the Federal Register 

on April 16, 2018, EPA did not make 

publicly available on https://

www.regulations.gov the docket for this 

action until May 15, 2018. EPA is 

extending the comment period until 

July 14, 2018, to allow for the full 60- 

day comment period. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 14, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2018–0209, online using https://

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to a-and-r-Docket@

epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen VanSickle, Clean Air Markets 

Division, Office of Air and Radiation, 

(6204M), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–343–9220; fax number: 

202–343–2361; email address: 

vansickle.karen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document extends the public comment 

period established in the Federal 

Register document of April 16, 2018 (83 

FR 16357) from June 15, 2018, to July 

14, 2018. In that document, EPA opened 

a 60-day comment period for the 

proposed renewal of the ICR, CrossState Air Pollution Rule and Texas SO2

Trading Programs (Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR 

No. 2391.05, OMB Control No. 2060– 

0667). The docket for this action was 

not made available on https://

www.regulations.gov until May 15, 

2018. As a result, EPA is extending the 

comment period for 29 days until July 

14, 2018. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2018–0398; FRL–9979–26] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Pre-Manufacture Review 

Reporting and Exemption 

Requirements for New Chemical 

Substances and Significant New Use 

Reporting Requirements for Chemical 

Substances; Emergency Processing 

Request Submitted to OMB 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has submitted an 

amendment to the following 

information collection request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for emergency processing in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA): ‘‘Pre-Manufacture 

Review Reporting and Exemption 

Requirements for New Chemical 

Substances and Significant New Use 

Reporting Requirements for Chemical 

Substances’’ and identified by EPA ICR 

No. 0574.17 and OMB Control No. 

2070–0012. The ICR, which is available 

in the docket along with other related 

materials, provides a detailed 

explanation of the collection activities 

and the burden estimate that is 

summarized in this document. 

DATES: EPA requested that OMB 

approve the emergency processing 

request on or before June 11, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The docket for this action, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2018–0398, is 

available at http://www.regulations.gov. 

A public version of the docket is 

available for inspection and copying 

between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding 

federal holidays, at the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 

Docket Center Reading Room, WJC West 

Building, Rm. 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004. A 

reasonable fee may be charged for 

copying. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brandon Mullings, Environmental 

Assistance Division (MC 7408M), Office 

of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001; telephone number: (202) 

564–4826 email address: 

mullings.brandon@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Docket: Supporting documents, 

including the ICR that explains in detail 

the information collection activities and 

the related burden and cost estimates 

that are summarized in this document, 

are available in the docket for this ICR. 

The docket can be viewed online at 

http://www.regulations.gov or in person 

at the EPA Docket Center, West William 

Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 

The telephone number for the Docket 

Center is (202) 566–1744. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

ICR status: EPA is seeking emergency 

processing of amendments to an 

existing, approved ICR that is currently 

scheduled to expire on November 30, 

2018. 

The Agency is issuing additional 

reporting guidance to help submitters 

better address the recently-amended 

requirements for new chemicals under 

the Toxic Substances Control Act 

(TSCA) (15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). Under 

the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., an 

agency may ask OMB to authorize a 

collection of information if the agency 

has determined that the collection is 

needed prior to the expiration of time 

periods established under the PRA if the 

agency determines that the agency 

cannot reasonably comply with the 


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