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1 In addition, the regulations at 40 CFR 124.55(b) 

also require that EPA receive a request from a 

permittee for the deleted certification conditions to 

be removed from the permit. EPA received such 

requests to remove deleted conditions from Express 

Marine Inc. on February 3, 2009 in New Jersey, 

Canal Barge Company Inc. on February 4, 2009 in 

Illinois and from Foss Maritime Company on 

February 5, 2009 in California. 

2 In addition, the permit may be found at 

http://www.epa.gov/npdes/vessels. 

Dated: February 3, 2009. 

Janet L. Andersen, 

Director, Biopesticides and Pollution 

Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–5238 Filed 3–10–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8773–4; EPA–HQ–OW–2008–0055] 

Notice Regarding National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) General Permit for 

Discharges Incidental to the Normal 

Operation of a Vessel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: EPA previously announced 

the final NPDES general permit for 

discharges incidental to the normal 

operation of vessels, also referred to as 

the Vessel General Permit (VGP), in the 

Federal Register on December 29, 2008 

(73 FR 79493). The permit was signed 

on December 18, 2008 and became 

effective on December 19, 2008. EPA 

subsequently noticed final issuance of 

the VGP for the states of Hawaii and 

Alaska, after receipt of a certification 

pursuant to section 401 of the Clean 

Water Act (CWA) from Hawaii and a 

final response on the national 

consistency determination required by 

section 307(c)(1) of the Coastal Zone 

Management Act (CZMA) from Alaska, 

which was signed on February 2, 2009, 

with an effective date of February 6, 

2009. Today’s notice of availability 

provides notice of EPA’s deletion of 

specific State section 401 certification 

conditions from Part 6 of the VGP for 

the States of New Jersey, Illinois, and 

California. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on the final vessel 

NPDES general permit, contact Ryan 

Albert at EPA Headquarters, Office of 

Water, Office of Wastewater 

Management, Mail Code 4203M, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; or at tel. 202–564–0763; or 

Juhi Saxena at EPA Headquarters, Office 

of Water, Office of Wastewater 

Management, Mail Code 4203M, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; or at tel. 202–564–0719; or 

e-mail: 

CommercialVesselPermit@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. General Information 

Pursuant to Clean Water Act section 

401(a) and EPA’s implementing 

regulations, EPA may not issue a NPDES 

permit (including the VGP) until the 

appropriate State certifications have 

been granted or waived. 40 CFR 

124.53(a). Through the certification 

process, States were given the 

opportunity, before the VGP was issued, 

to add conditions to the permit they 

believe are necessary to ensure that the 

permit complies with the Clean Water 

Act and other appropriate requirements 

of State law, including State water 

quality standards. 

New Jersey Department of 

Environmental Protection issued its 

section 401 certification for the VGP on 

September 24, 2008, and modified its 

certification on February 2, 2009. This 

modification deleted certification 

conditions #1 and #2. Illinois 

Environmental Protection Agency 

issued its section 401 certification for 

the VGP on November 21, 2008, and 

modified its certification on February 4, 

2009. This modification deleted 

certification condition #9. California 

State Water Resources Control Board 

issued its section 401 certification for 

the VGP on December 17, 2008, and 

modified its certification on February 4, 

2009. This modification deleted 

certification conditions #1, #2, #5, #7, 

#8, #9, #10, #13, #14, #15, and 7.1 and 

7.2 from certification condition #16 and 

Attachments 4, 5, and 6 from 

certification condition #17. Pursuant to 

EPA’s implementing regulations at 40 

CFR 124.55(b), EPA may, at the request 

of a permittee, modify the VGP based on 

a modified certification received after 

final agency action on the permit ‘‘only 

to the extent necessary to delete any 

conditions based on a condition in a 

certification invalidated by a court of 

competent jurisdiction or by an 

appropriate State board or agency.’’ 40 

CFR 124.55(b). In accordance with this 

provision, EPA has removed these 

deleted certification conditions from the 

VGP.1 EPA’s letters notifying the 

requesting permittees that their requests 

to delete the permit conditions were 

granted, and a copy of the VGP 

reflecting those deletions, can be found 

in the docket for the VGP (Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2008–0055).2

B. How Can I Get Copies of These 

Documents and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW– 

2008–0055. The official public docket is 

the collection of materials, including the 

administrative record, for the final 

permit, required by 40 CFR 124.18. It is 

available for public viewing at the Water 

Docket in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/ 

DC) EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. Although all documents in 

the docket are listed in an index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

i.e., CBI or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available electronically through 

www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at the EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room, 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 Water Docket is (202) 

566–2426. 

2. Electronic Access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through the Federal 

Docket Management System (FDMS) 

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

You may use the FDMS to view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the official public 

docket, and to access those documents 

in the public docket that are available 

electronically. Once at the Web site, 

enter the appropriate Docket ID No. in 

the ‘‘Search’’ box to view the docket. 

Certain types of information will not 

be placed in the EPA dockets. 

Information claimed as CBI and other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute, which is not 

included in the official public docket, 

will not be available for public viewing 

in EPA’s electronic public docket. EPA 

policy is that copyrighted material will 

not be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. Although not all docket 

materials may be available 

electronically, you may still access any 

of the publicly available docket 


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materials through the docket facility 

identified in Section B.1. 

1. Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 

U.S.C. 1251 et seq. 

2. Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 

U.S.C. 1251 et seq. 

3. Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 

U.S.C. 1251 et seq. 

Dated: February 5, 2009. 

Ronald J. Borsellino, 

Acting Director, Division of Environmental 

Planning and Protection, EPA Region 2. 

Dated: February 5, 2009. 

Tinka Hyde, 

Director, Water Division, EPA Region 5. 

Dated: February 5, 2009. 

Alexis Strauss, 

Director, Water Division, EPA Region 9. 

[FR Doc. E9–5219 Filed 3–10–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0937;FRL–8400–7] 

Para-dichlorobenzene; Issuance of 

Revised Reregistration Eligibility 

Decision 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s Revised 

Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) 

for the pesticide para-dichlorobenzene. 

The Agency’s risk assessments and 

other related documents also are 

available in the Para-dichlorobenzene 

Docket. Para-dichlorobenzene is an 

insecticide; the majority of its pesticidal 

use is as a moth repellant to protect 

garments from insect damage and in and 

around bird cages for the control of lice 

and ticks. EPA has reviewed paradichlorobenzene through the public 

participation process that the Agency 

uses to involve the public in developing 

pesticide reregistration and tolerance 

reassessment decisions. Through these 

programs, EPA is ensuring that all 

pesticides meet current health and 

safety standards. A 60–day public 

comment period was conducted with 

the publication of the paradichlorobenzene RED in December 

2007. The comments received primarily 

concerned the episodic ingestion risk 

estimates. The Agency, in response, 

revisited the acute oral endpoint 

selection and agreed that there were no 

effects attributable to a single dose, and 

revised the human health risk 

assessment and the RED accordingly. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Molly Clayton, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508P), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001; telephone number: (703) 603– 

0522; fax number: (703) 308–7070; email address: clayton.molly@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. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established a 

docket for this action under docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2007-0937. Publicly available 

docket materials are available either in 

the electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the Office of 

Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory 

Public Docket in Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of 

operation of this Docket Facility are 

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

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr. 

II. Background 

A. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Under section 4 of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA), EPA is reevaluating 

existing pesticides to ensure that they 

meet current scientific and regulatory 

standards. EPA completed a RED for the 

pesticide, para-dichorobenzene, under 

section 4(g)(2)(A) of FIFRA. Paradichlorobenzene is an insecticide 

registered for use on indoor use sites 

only. It is used as a moth and beetle 

repellant in products which are applied 

to use sites such as closets and storage 

containers, and to repel lice and mites 

from bird cages. It is also used in empty 

bee supers (stored indoors), to repel wax 

moths. When formulated into varpal 

rope, it is used in attics to repel snakes, 

mice, rats, squirrels, and bats. EPA has 

determined that the database to support 

reregistration is substantially complete 

and that products containing paradichlorobenzene are eligible for 

reregistration, provided the risks are 

mitigated in the manner described in 

the revised RED. Upon submission of 

any required product-specific data 

under section 4(g)(2)(B) of FIFRA and 

any necessary changes to the 

registration and labeling (either to 

address concerns identified in the RED 

or as a result of product-specific data), 

EPA will make a final reregistration 

decision under section 4(g)(2)(C) of 

FIFRA for products containing paradichlorobenzene. 

The RED document for paradichlorobenzene was signed on 

September 28, 2007. In accordance with 

the Agency’s public participation 

process, a public comment period for 

the RED was conducted. This comment 

period opened December 12, 2007, and 

closed February 11, 2008. The 

comments received primarily concerned 

the episodic ingestion risk estimates. 

The Agency, in response, re-evaluated 

the acute oral endpoint selection and 

agreed that there were no effects 

attributable to a single dose, and revised 

the human health risk assessment and 

the RED accordingly. The revisions 

made to para-dichlorobenzene RED are 

as follows: The acute oral endpoint and 

the risk estimate for episodic ingestion 

of mothballs were removed, as were the 

mitigation measures relating to episodic 

ingestion risk; the acute dermal toxicity 

category was changed from III to IV to 

correct a typographical error; and Table 

6, the Summary of Labeling Changes, 

was revised to remove the requirement 

for special packaging of mothballs, and 

the ‘‘keep out of reach of children’’ 

language was modified to be consistent 

with other chemicals with similar 

warning statements. 

EPA is applying the principles of 

public participation to all pesticides 

undergoing reregistration and tolerance 

reassessment. The Agency’s Pesticide 

Tolerance Reassessment and 

Reregistration; Public Participation 

Process, published in the Federal 

Register on May 14, 2004 (69 FR 26819) 

(FRL–7357–9), explains that in 

conducting these programs, EPA is 

tailoring its public participation process 

to be commensurate with the level of 

risk, extent of use, complexity of issues, 

and degree of public concern associated 


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