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caution for members of the public and 

our staff, the EPA Docket Center and 

Reading Room are closed to the public, 

with limited exceptions, to reduce the 

risk of transmitting COVID–19. Our 

Docket Center staff will continue to 

provide remote customer service via 

email, phone, and webform. We 

encourage the public to submit 

comments via https://

www.regulations.gov, as there may be a 

delay in processing mail and faxes. 

Hand-deliveries and couriers may be 

received by scheduled appointment 

only. For further information on EPA 

Docket Center services and the current 

status, please visit us online at https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

EPA continues to carefully and 

continuously monitor information from 

the CDC, local area health departments, 

and our federal partners so that we can 

respond rapidly as conditions change 

regarding COVID–19. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ryland Shengzhi Li, Air and Radiation 

Law Office (mail code), Office of 

General Counsel, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone (202) 564–6787; email 

address li.ryland@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining a Copy of the Proposed 

Consent Decree 

The official public docket for this 

action (identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OGC–2022–0200) contains a 

copy of the proposed consent decree. 

The electronic version of the public 

docket for this action contains a copy of 

the proposed consent decree and is 

available through https://

www.regulations.gov. You may use 

https://www.regulations.gov to submit 

or view public comments, access the 

index listing of the contents of the 

official public docket, and access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, key in the appropriate docket 

identification number then select 

‘‘search.’’ 

II. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

The proposed consent decree would 

establish a June 3, 2022, deadline for 

EPA to establish the 2021 and 2022 

renewable fuel standards (also known as 

renewable fuel obligations). EPA is 

obligated to establish the renewable fuel 

standards under 42 U.S.C. 

7545(o)(3)(B)(i). The Agency was 

statutorily obligated to establish the 

2021 renewable fuel standards by 

November 30, 2020, and to establish the 

2022 renewable fuel standards by 

November 30, 2021. EPA proposed the 

renewable fuel standards for 2021 and 

2022 on December 7, 2021. See 86 FR 

72436 (published December 21, 2021). 

Under the proposed consent decree, 

EPA must sign the final rule 

establishing the 2021 and 2022 

renewable fuel standards by June 3, 

2022. 

The same rule proposing the 2021 and 

2022 renewable fuel standards also 

proposed to revise the 2020 renewable 

fuel standards, which EPA had 

previously finalized in a separate 

rulemaking. 85 FR 7016 (February 6, 

2020) (‘‘2020 Rule’’). Growth Energy and 

other parties have challenged the 2020 

Rule in the D.C. Circuit. Growth Energy 

v. EPA, No. 20–1113 (D.C. Cir.) 

(consolidated under lead case RFS 

Power Coalition v. EPA, No. 20–1046 

(D.C. Cir.)). 

In accordance with section 113(g) of 

the CAA, for a period of thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

document, the Agency will accept 

written comments relating to the 

proposed consent decree. EPA or the 

Department of Justice may withdraw or 

withhold consent to the proposed 

consent decree if the comments disclose 

facts or considerations that indicate that 

such consent is inappropriate, 

improper, inadequate, or inconsistent 

with the requirements of the Act. 

III. Additional Information About 

Commenting on the Proposed Consent 

Decree 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OGC–2022– 

0200, via https://www.regulations.gov. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from this docket. 

EPA may publish any comment received 

to its public docket. Do not submit to 

EPA’s docket at https://

www.regulations.gov any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

comments or comment contents located 

outside of the primary submission (i.e., 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). For additional submission 

methods, the full EPA public comment 

policy, information about CBI or 

multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit https://

www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets. For additional information 

about submitting information identified 

as CBI, please contact the person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. Note 

that written comments containing CBI 

and submitted by mail may be delayed 

and deliveries or couriers will be 

received by scheduled appointment 

only. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name, mailing address, and an email 

address or other contact information in 

the body of your comment. This ensures 

that you can be identified as the 

submitter of the comment and allows 

EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties or needs further information 

on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. 

Use of the https://

www.regulations.gov website to submit 

comments to EPA electronically is 

EPA’s preferred method for receiving 

comments. The electronic public docket 

system is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity, email address, or 

other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

Please ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

Gautam Srinivasan, 

Associate General Counsel. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9446–01–OMS] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Office of Mission Support 

(OMS), Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA or Agency), 


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Administrative IT System Support Staff, 

Office of Mission Support (OMS), is 

giving notice that it proposes to modify 

a system of records, Case Records 

System (CRS), pursuant to the 

provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974. 

EPA is modifying the Case Records 

System by renaming it to the Enterprise 

Legal Case Management System 

(ELCMS), consolidating information 

from other databases into the system, 

and moving it to a new enterprise 

platform, which is a platform that 

supports Agency-wide usage for Agency 

administrative legal proceedings. The 

purpose of the modified system is to 

manage the administrative adjudicatory 

proceedings held before the Agency 

through docketing, filing, case tracking, 

and document management and storage. 

Litigants, Agency attorneys and judges, 

and other interested parties may submit 

a variety of documents to the system, 

including pleadings, motions, briefs, 

exhibits, orders, hearing transcripts and 

initial decisions. 

DATES: Persons wishing to comment on 

this system of records notice must do so 

by March 25, 2022. New or modified 

routine uses for this modified system of 

records will be effective March 25, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OEI–2014–0197, by one of the following 

methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Email: docket_oms@epa.gov. Include 

the Docket ID number in the subject line 

of the message. 

Fax: 202–566–1752. 

Mail: OMS Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code: 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460. 

Hand Delivery: OMS Docket, EPA/DC, 

WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the Docket’s normal 

hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OEI–2014– 

0197. The EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at https:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Controlled Unclassified 

Information (CUI) or other information 

for which disclosure is restricted by 

statute. Do not submit information that 

you consider to be CUI or otherwise 

protected through https://

www.regulations.gov. The https://

www.regulations.gov website is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system for the 

EPA, which means the EPA will not 

know your identity or contact 

information. If you submit an electronic 

comment, the EPA recommends that 

you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment. If the EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

the EPA may not be able to consider 

your comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to the EPA without 

going through https://

www.regulations.gov, your email 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made available on the internet. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. For additional information 

about the EPA public docket, visit the 

EPA Docket Center homepage at https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the https://

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CUI or other 

information for which disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in https://

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OMS Docket, EPA/DC, WJC West 

Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. The 

Public Reading Room is normally open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday excluding legal holidays. 

The telephone number for the Public 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the OMS 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

Temporary Hours During COVID–19 

Out of an abundance of caution for 

members of the public and our staff, the 

EPA Docket Center and Reading Room 

are closed to the public, with limited 

exceptions, to reduce the risk of 

transmitting COVID–19. Our Docket 

Center staff will continue to provide 

remote customer service via email, 

phone, and webform. We encourage the 

public to submit comments via https:// 

www.regulations.gov/ or email, as there 

may be a delay in processing mail and 

faxes. Hand deliveries and couriers may 

be received by scheduled appointment 

only. For further information on EPA 

Docket Center services and the current 

status, please visit us online at https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Hardy, Director, Administrative 

IT Systems Support Staff, Senior 

Information Technology Leader, Office 

of Mission Support, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Room 3352–L, WJC 

North—Mailcode 3102A, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 

20460, hardy.michael@epa.gov, 202– 

564–7899, Nicole Williams, Office of 

Mission Support, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Room 3352–P, WJC 

North—Mailcode 3102A, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 

20460, williams.nicole@epa.gov, 202– 

564–4026. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA is 

modifying the Case Records System by 

renaming it to the Enterprise Legal Case 

Management System (ELCMS). EPA is 

also consolidating information from 

other databases into the system to 

modernize legacy applications under a 

single platform. The Agency conducts 

hearings and renders decisions in 

proceedings between the EPA and 

persons, businesses, government 

entities, and other organizations which 

are regulated, or alleged to be regulated, 

under environmental laws. 

ELCMS is a docketing, filing, case 

tracking, and document management 

system used for these proceedings. The 

system is maintained by the Office of 

Mission Support in Washington, DC and 

consists of electronic documents stored 

in a password-protected computer 

database. The system is accessible to 

Agency employees in connection with 

the performance of their authorized 

duties. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

Enterprise Legal Case Management 

System (ELCMS), EPA–66. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Electronic records are maintained by 

the Office of Mission Support (OMS), at 

EPA Headquarters, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460 and 

national servers are located at the EPA 

National Computer Center (NCC) in 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S): 

Michael Hardy, Director, Strategic IT 

Investment Staff, Senior Information 

Technology Leader, Office of Mission 

Support, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Room 3352–L, WJC North— 

Mailcode 3102A, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, Washington, DC 20460, 202– 

564–7899, hardy.michael@epa.gov. 


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AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

42 U.S.C. 11001 et seq. (Emergency 

Planning & Community Right-to-Know 

Act (EPCRA)); 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq. 

(Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA)); 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq. 

(Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)); 

7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. (Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA)); 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq. 

(Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA)); 33 U.S.C. 1251 (Federal 

Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), 

commonly known as the Clean Water 

Act (CWA)); 42 U.S.C. 7401 (Clean Air 

Act (CAA)); 40 CFR 22.4 (Consolidated 

Rules of Practice Governing the 

Administrative Assessment of Civil 

Penalties and the Revocation/ 

Termination or Suspension of Permits). 

PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM: 

The information in ELCMS is 

primarily used by Agency judges, 

attorneys and clerks to render 

determinations with respect to matters 

before them and to communicate the 

determinations to the appropriate 

individuals and organizations, as well 

as to the general public. Litigants, 

Agency attorneys and judges, and other 

interested parties may submit a variety 

of documents to the system, including 

pleadings, motions, briefs, exhibits, 

orders, hearing transcripts and initial 

decisions. When fully implemented, the 

electronic filing portion of the system 

will provide for online filing, tracking, 

and accounting of filings (e.g., 

pleadings, motions, briefs, exhibits, 

orders, and determinations) in all cases, 

both pending and archived. Other 

purposes of the system and the 

information contained therein, include: 

• Responding to Freedom of 

Information Act requests; 

• providing management information 

necessary to assess workload, assign 

incoming cases and monitor case 

progress; 

• allowing individual judges to 

monitor the progress of assigned cases; 

• providing ready access to case 

docketing information to support staff to 

enable timely response to complainants, 

government and private counsel, and 

respondents concerning the status of a 

particular case; and 

• promoting transparency by 

providing public access to Agency 

litigation documents. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY

SYSTEM: 

This system covers any person, 

including individuals, or their 

representative, who create a profile or 

whose information is contained in any 

document filed the system. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The records contained in this system 

may include but are not limited to: 

names, addresses, social security 

numbers, medical and/or financial 

information. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

The sources of data within ELCMS are 

from documents submitted by parties to 

the administrative proceedings, to 

include briefs, motions, exhibits, and by 

judges presiding over the hearings and 

regional clerks, to include orders and 

initial decisions. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

The routine uses below are both 

related to and compatible with the 

original purpose for which the 

information was collected. The 

following general routine uses apply to 

this system (86 FR 62527): A, E, F, G, 

H, K, L, and M. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

These records are maintained 

electronically on computer storage 

devices located at the EPA, and 

Administrative IT System Support Staff 

of OMS, manage the system which is 

stored at the National Computer Center 

(NCC) in Research Triangle Park, North 

Carolina in secure, access-controlled 

rooms, areas, and buildings. Backup 

files will be maintained at a disaster 

recovery site. Computer records are 

maintained in a secure password 

protected environment. Permission level 

assignments will allow users access 

only to those functions for which they 

are authorized. There are no paper 

records generated by this system. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Cases are retrieved by the name of the 

business entity or parties to a particular 

case, or the case docket number. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

The records will be maintained under 

EPA Records Schedules 508, 509, and 

510. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

Security controls used to protect 

personal sensitive data in Enterprise 

Legal Case Management System are 

commensurate with those required for 

an information system rated 

MODERATE for confidentiality, 

integrity, and availability, as prescribed 

in National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) Special Publication, 

800–53, ‘‘Security and Privacy Controls 

for Information Systems and 

Organizations,’’ Revision 5. 

1. Administrative Safeguards: EPA 

personnel are required to complete 

annual agency Information Security and 

Privacy training. EPA personnel are 

instructed to lock their computers when 

they leave their desks. 

2. Technical Safeguards: Electronic 

records are maintained in a secure, 

password protected electronic system. 

ELCMS access is limited to authorized, 

authenticated users integrated with the 

Agency’s single-sign-on. This 

integration uses the user’s LAN 

credentials to identify the user prior to 

granting access to the platform and 

ELCMS. All of the system’s electronic 

communication utilizes the agency’s 

Trusted Internet Connection (TIC). 

3. Physical Safeguards: All records 

are maintained in secure, accesscontrolled areas or buildings. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

All requests for access to personal 

records should cite the Privacy Act of 

1974 and reference the type of request 

being made (i.e., access). Requests must 

include: (1) The name and signature of 

the individual making the request; (2) 

the name of the Privacy Act system of 

records to which the request relates; (3) 

a statement whether a personal 

inspection of the records or a copy of 

them by mail is desired; and (4) proof 

of identity. A full description of EPA’s 

Privacy Act procedures for requesting 

access to records is available at 40 CFR 

part 16. 

CONTESTING RECORDS PROCEDURES: 

Requests for correction or amendment 

must include: (1) The name and 

signature of the individual making the 

request; (2) the name of the Privacy Act 

system of records to which the request 

relates; (3) a description of the 

information sought to be corrected or 

amended and the specific reasons for 

the correction or amendment; and (4) 

proof of identity. A full description of 

EPA’s Privacy Act procedures for the 

correction or amendment of a record are 

described in EPA’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 40 CFR part 16. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals who wish to be informed 

whether a Privacy Act system of records 

maintained by EPA contains any record 

pertaining to them, should make a 

written request to the EPA, Attn: 

Agency Privacy Officer, MC 2831T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460, or by email at: 


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privacy@epa.gov. A full description of 

EPA’s Privacy Act procedures is 

included in EPA’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 40 CFR part 16. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

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180 (Wednesday, September 17, 2014) 

[Notices] [Pages 55794–55796] From the 

Federal Register Online via the 

Government Publishing Office 

[www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2014– 

22164] 

Vaughn Noga, 

Senior Agency Official for Privacy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03832 Filed 2–22–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2021–0839; FRL–9576–01– 

OCSPP] 

Pesticide Registration Maintenance 

Fee: Product Cancellation Order for 

Certain Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

order for the cancellations, voluntarily 

requested by the registrants and 

accepted by the Agency, of the products 

listed in Table 1 of Unit III, pursuant to 

the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 

DATES: The cancellations are effective 

February 23, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Yanchulis, Registration 

Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (202) 566–2951; email address: 

yanchulis.michael@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. Since 

others also may be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

The docket for these actions, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2021–0839, is 

available at http://www.regulations.gov 

or at the Office of Pesticide Programs 

Regulatory Public Docket (OPP Docket) 

in the Environmental Protection Agency 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William 

Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001. The Public Reading Room 

is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, 

and the telephone number for the OPP 

Docket is (202) 566–1744. 

Due to the public health concerns 

related to COVID–19, the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC) and Reading Room is 

closed to visitors with limited 

exceptions. The staff continues to 

provide remote customer service via 

email, phone, and webform. For the 

latest status information on EPA/DC 

services and docket access, visit https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

II. Background 

This cancellation order follows a 

December 7, 2021, Federal Register 

Notice of Receipt of Requests from the 

registrants listed in Table 2 of Unit III, 

to voluntarily cancel these product 

registrations. In the December 7, 2021, 

notice, EPA indicated that it would 

issue an order implementing the 

cancellations, unless the Agency 

received substantive comments within 

the 30-day comment period that would 

merit its further review of these 

requests, or unless the registrants 

withdrew their requests. The Agency 

did not receive any comments. The 

registration numbers below were listed 

in the December 7, 2021, notice but 

were listed in another request to cancel 

Federal Register notice so are not listed 

in this notice. The products and Federal 

Register Notice are: Federal Register of 

April 10, 2017 (82 FR 17253; FRL– 

9950–38): 241–383, 241–395, 241–410, 

241–411, and 241–419. Accordingly, 

EPA hereby issues in this notice a 

cancellation order granting the 

requested cancellations. Any 

distribution, sale, or use of the products 

subject to this cancellation order is 

permitted only in accordance with the 

terms of this order, including any 

existing stocks provisions. 

Section 4(i)(5) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 

136a–1(i)(5)) requires that all pesticide 

registrants pay an annual registration 

maintenance fee, due by January 15 of 

each year, to keep their registrations in 

effect. This requirement applies to all 

registrations granted under FIFRA 

section 3 (7 U.S.C. 136a) as well as those 

granted under FIFRA section 24(c) (7 

U.S.C. 136v(c)) to meet special local 

needs. Registrations for which the fee is 

not paid are subject to cancellation by 

order and without a hearing. 

Under FIFRA, the EPA Administrator 

may reduce or waive maintenance fees 

for minor agricultural use pesticides 

when it is determined that the fee 

would be likely to cause significant 

impact on the availability of the 

pesticide for the use. 

In fiscal year 2021, maintenance fees 

were collected in one billing cycle. On 

December 1, 2020, all holders of either 

FIFRA section 3 registrations or FIFRA 

section 24(c) registrations were sent lists 

of their active registrations, along with 

forms and instructions for responding. 

They were asked to identify which of 

their registrations they wished to 

maintain in effect, and to calculate and 

remit the appropriate maintenance fees. 

Most responses were received by the 

statutory deadline of January 15, 2021. 

A notice of intent to cancel was sent in 

September of 2021 to companies who 

did not respond and to companies who 

responded but paid for less than all 

their registrations. Since mailing the 

notices of intent to cancel, EPA has 

maintained a toll-free inquiry number 

through which the questions of affected 

registrants have been answered. 

In fiscal year 2021, the Agency has 

waived the fees for 335 minor 

agricultural use registrations at the 

request of the registrants. Maintenance 

fees have been paid for about 17,467 

FIFRA section 3 registrations, or about 

98% of the registrations on file in 

October 2020. Fees have been paid for 

about 1,996 FIFRA section 24(c) 

registrations, or about 95% of the total 

on file in October 2020. Cancellations 

for non-payment of the maintenance fee 

affect 148 FIFRA section 3 registrations 

and 23 FIFRA section 24(c) 

registrations. These cancellations can be 

found in Table 4 below. Cancellations 

for companies paying the fee at one of 

the capped payment amounts are 

considered voluntary cancellations 

since the registration could be 

maintained without an additional fee 

payment. These cancellations are 

subject to a 30-day comment period and 

are listed in Table 1 below. 

The cancellation orders generally 

permit registrants to continue to sell and 

distribute existing stocks of the canceled 

products until 1 year after the date on 

which the fee was due. Existing stocks 

already in the hands of dealers or users, 

however, can generally be distributed, 

sold, or used legally until they are 


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