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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0207; FRL–9904–26] 

Notice of Receipt of Requests To 

Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide 

Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing 

a notice of receipt of requests by 

registrants to voluntarily cancel certain 

pesticide registrations. The registrants 

submitting voluntary requests for 

cancellation are Sergeant’s Pet Care 

Products, Inc. (Sergeant’s) and 

Wellmark International (Wellmark). 

Regarding Sergeant’s, EPA intends to 

grant this request at the close of the 

comment period for this announcement 

unless the Agency receives substantive 

comments within the comment period 

that would merit its further review of 

the request, or unless the registrant 

withdraws its request. The cancellations 

for the Sergeant’s propoxur products 

will not become effective before April 1, 

2015, as described in Unit II. of this 

document. Regarding Wellmark, EPA 

intends to grant this request, if 

appropriate, according to the terms of 

the request, unless the Agency receives 

substantive comments within the 

comment period that would merit its 

further review of the request, or unless 

the registrant withdraws its request. If 

EPA grants Wellmark’s voluntary 

request for cancellation, the 

cancellations for the Wellmark propoxur 

products will not become effective 

before April 1, 2015, as described in 

Unit II. of this document. Regarding 

both Sergeant’s and Wellmark, if these 

cancellation requests are granted, the 

Agency will issue cancellation orders 

that will prescribe conditions pertaining 

to the sale, distribution, and use of 

existing stocks of cancelled products, as 

discussed in Unit V. of this document. 

For more information regarding the 

specific details of these voluntary 

cancellation requests, please see the 

registrants’ requests, available in docket 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0207. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 21, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0207, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

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. 

Submit written withdrawal request by 

mail to: Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001. ATTN: 

Kaitlin Keller. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at 

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kaitlin Keller, Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8172; email address: 

keller.kaitlin@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, and 

agricultural advocates; the chemical 

industry; pesticide users; and members 

of the public interested in the sale, 

distribution, or use of pesticides. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

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 submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

vi. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

vii. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

viii. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. What action is the agency taking? 

This notice announces receipt by the 

Agency of requests from Sergeant’s Pet 

Care Products, Inc. (Sergeant’s) and 

Wellmark International (Wellmark) to 

cancel all 7 propoxur pet collar 

products registered under FIFRA section 

3. Propoxur is an N-methyl residual 

carbamate insecticide registered for use 

to control ticks, fleas, and a variety of 

insects including crickets, ants, wasps, 

cockroaches, and silverfish. It is 

registered for use in-and-around 

industrial, commercial (including food 

handling establishments and food 

processing plants), and residential 

facilities. Residential uses include bait 

traps, pastes, pet collars, and 

impregnated shelf paper. There are no 

labeled agricultural uses. 

Sergeant’s requested that EPA cancel 

its product registrations identified in 

Table 1 of this notice, such 

cancellations not to be effective before 

April 1, 2015. Wellmark requested that 

EPA cancel its product registrations 

identified in Table 1 of this notice, if 

appropriate according to the terms and 

conditions of the request, such 

cancellations not to be effective before 

February 1, 2015. Per a follow-up 

discussion on November 21, 2013, the 

Agency and Wellmark agreed to an 

extension of Wellmark’s potential 

effective cancellation date to April 1, 


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2015. These registrations are listed in 

sequence by registration number in 

Table 1 of this unit. 

Unless the Agency determines that 

there are substantive comments that 

warrant further review of the requests or 

the registrants withdraw their requests, 

EPA intends to issue orders in the 

Federal Register canceling all of the 

affected registrations, if appropriate, 

according to the terms and conditions 

outlined in the registrants’ requests for 

cancellation. 

TABLE 1—REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR CANCELLATION

Registration 

No. Product name Chemical name 

2517–61 ....... Sergeant’s Dual Action Flea & Tick Collar (With D-Phenothrin) .................................. Propoxur, MGK 264, Phenothrin. 

2517–78 ....... Sergeant’s Sendran Flea & Tick Collar ........................................................................ Propoxur. 

2517–144 ..... Sergeant’s 933 Plus Flea & Tick Collar (With D-Phenothrin and Pyriproxyfen) .......... Propoxur, MGK 264, Phenothrin, 

Pyriproxyfen. 

2724–254 ..... Dog Collar for Flea Control ........................................................................................... Propoxur. 

2724–275 ..... Propoxur Flea Collar for Cats RF–101 ......................................................................... Propoxur. 

2724–491 ..... RF 9907 Flea Collar for Cats and Kittens .................................................................... Propoxur, S-Methoprene. 

2724–493 ..... RF–2007 Collar ............................................................................................................. Propoxur, S-Methoprene. 

Table 2 of this unit includes the 

names and addresses of record for all 

registrants of the products 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 this 

unit. 

TABLE 2—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING

VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION

EPA 

Company 

No. 

Company name and address 

2517 ....... Sergeant’s Pet Care Products, 

Inc., 10077 South 134th St., 

Omaha, NE 68138. 

2724 ....... Wellmark International, 1501 E. 

Woodfield Rd., Suite 200 West, 

Schaumburg, IL 60173. 

III. What is the agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA provides that 

a registrant of a pesticide product may 

at any time request that any of its 

pesticide registrations be canceled. 

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 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) 

provides for the possibility of a 180-day 

comment period where the voluntary 

cancellation involves a pesticide 

registered for at least one minor 

agricultural use. Because propoxur is 

not registered for any minor agricultural 

uses, this 180-day comment provision 

does not apply, and EPA is providing a 

30-day comment period on the requests 

for voluntary cancellation of the 

propoxur registrations. 

IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of 

Request 

Registrants who choose to withdraw a 

request for cancellation should submit 

such withdrawal in writing to the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

V. 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 cancellation action. 

In any order issued in response to 

these requests for cancellation of 

product registrations, EPA anticipates 

inclusion of the following provisions for 

the treatment of any existing stocks of 

the products identified in Table 1 of 

Unit II.: Sergeant’s and/or Wellmark 

may not ‘‘release for shipment,’’ as that 

term is defined by 40 CFR 152.3, any 

additional product as currently 

formulated after April 1, 2015, and may 

not sell or distribute existing stocks of 

such product after April 1, 2016. All 

sale or distribution of such existing 

stocks by Sergeant’s and/or Wellmark is 

prohibited after April 1, 2016, unless 

that sale or distribution is solely for the 

purpose of facilitating disposal or export 

of the product consistent with FIFRA 

section 17. 

After April 1, 2016, persons other 

than the registrants will generally be 

allowed to sell, distribute, or use 

existing stocks until such stocks 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. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests, Propoxur. 

Dated: January 13, 2014. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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