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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0615; FRL–8410–2] 

Endosulfan; Petitions Requesting 

Cancellation of All Uses 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice asks the public to 

comment on requests from the Natural 

Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and 

the Pesticide Action Network North 

America (PANNA) that EPA cancel all 

uses of the organochlorine pesticide 

endosulfan. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 29, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0615, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008– 

0615. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the docket 

without change and may be made 

available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the docket and made available 

on the Internet. If you submit an 

electronic comment, EPA recommends 

that you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD-ROM 

you submit. 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. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

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

listed in the index, some information is 

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

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. 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 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melanie Biscoe, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508P), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001; telephone number: 703-305-7106; 

fax number: 703-308-8090; e-mail 

address: biscoe.melanie@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 the 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. 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 e-mail. 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. Background 

A. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

EPA seeks public comment on 

petitions from the NRDC and PANNA 

requesting that EPA cancel all uses of 

endosulfan. These petitions, available at 

regulations.gov under docket ID number 

EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0615, were 

submitted on February 19, 2008 in 

response to EPA’s 2007 human health 

and ecological effects assessment 

updates for endosulfan (72 FR 64624, 

November 16, 2007)(FRL–8339–5). The 

updated assessments, as well as the 


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2002 endosulfan Reregistration 

Eligibility Decision (RED), are available 

in the electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2002–0262. 

Although the NRDC and PANNA 

petitions requested both cancellation of 

uses and revocation of tolerances, this 

notice is seeking public comment only 

on the requests to cancel all uses of 

endosulfan under section 6 of the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 

136d(b)). EPA issued a separate Federal 

Register notice on August 20, 2008 (73 

FR 49194) soliciting public comment on 

the NRDC and PANNA petitions’ 

requests to revoke all tolerances under 

section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug 

and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended 

by the Food Quality Protection Act 

(FQPA) and codified at 40 CFR 180.182. 

The Agency notes that findings from 

its October 2008 Scientific Advisory 

Panel (SAP) meeting on Persistent 

Bioaccumulative Toxicants (PBTs), 

which were published on January 29, 

2009, may be useful for the public in 

commenting on these petitions seeking 

cancellation of all uses under FIFRA. 

Key components of the meeting include 

review of methods for assessing 

environmental persistence, 

bioaccumulation, long-range transport, 

toxicity, and the role of sediment 

dynamics on estimating aquatic 

exposure concentrations for pesticides 

with varying persistent, 

bioaccumulative and toxic 

characteristics. Meeting minutes from 

the PBT SAP (73 FR 42796, July 23, 

2008), are available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap/meetings/ 

2008/october/minutes.pdf and are also 

in the electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0550. 

Later in April 2009 the Agency will 

publish a separate Notice in the Federal 

Register to solicit comments on its 

recently completed impact assessments 

on endosulfan, as well as any additional 

information stakeholders may have on 

the importance of endosulfan use in 

agriculture (EPA–HQ–OPP–2002– 

0262)(FRL–8411–1). The impact 

assessments evaluate the impacts on 

growers that could result from various 

risk management options, such as 

cancellation of uses and longer 

Restricted Entry Intervals (REIs). All 

stakeholders are encouraged to 

comment on these assessments, submit 

additional information for the Agency to 

consider, and provide data with which 

the Agency can better define the likely 

impacts. Please see docket number 

EPA–HQ–OPP–2002–0262 to access 

documents and submit comments 

related to the impact assessments and 

the importance of endosulfan use. 

The Agency asks that comments on 

the NRDC and PANNA petitions’ 

requests to cancel all uses of endosulfan 

be submitted to docket number EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2008–0615 within 60 days. 

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

This action is being taken under 

authority of FFDCA section 408(d)(3), 

21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(3). 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, pesticides, 

and pests. 

Dated: April 10, 2009. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., 

Director, Special Review and Reregistration 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

ACTION: Notice of a Partially Open 

Meeting of the Board of Directors of the 

Export-Import Bank of the United 

States. 

TIME AND PLACE: Thursday, April 30, 

2009 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be 

held at EX-IM Bank in Room 1143, 811 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20571. 

OPEN AGENDA ITEMS: Item No. 1: 

Resolution presented to Linda M. 

Conlin, Vice Chairperson and 1st Vice 

President upon her resignation. 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The meeting will 

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No. 1 only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of the Secretary, 811 Vermont 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20571 

(Tele. No. 202–565–3957). 

Kamil P. Cook, 

General Counsel. 

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CORPORATION 

Notice of Agency Meeting 

Pursuant to the provisions of the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that 

at 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, 2009, the 

Board of Directors of the Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation met in 

closed session to consider matters 

related to the Corporation’s corporate 

activities. 

In calling the meeting, the Board 

determined, on motion of Director 

Thomas J. Curry (Appointive), seconded 

by Acting Director John E. Bowman 

(Office of Thrift Supervision), concurred 

in by Director John C. Dugan 

(Comptroller of the Currency), and 

Chairman Sheila C. Bair, that 

Corporation business required its 

consideration of the matters which were 

to be the subject of this meeting on less 

than seven days’ notice to the public; 

that no earlier notice of the meeting was 

practicable; that the public interest did 

not require consideration of the matters 

in a meeting open to public observation; 

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authority of subsections (c)(4) and (c)(8), 

of the ‘‘Government in the Sunshine 

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The meeting was held by means of a 

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Dated: April 24, 2009. 

Valerie J. Best, 

Assistant Executive Secretary, Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

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‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that 

at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2009, 

the Board of Directors of the Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation met in 

closed session to consider matters 

related to the Corporation’s corporate, 

supervisory, and resolution activities. 

In calling the meeting, the Board 

determined, on motion of Vice 

Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg, 

seconded by Director Thomas J. Curry 

(Appointive), concurred in by Acting 

Director John E. Bowman (Acting 

Director, Office of Thrift Supervision), 

Director John C. Dugan (Comptroller of 

the Currency), and Chairman Sheila C. 

Bair, that Corporation business required 

its consideration of the matters which 

were to be the subject of this meeting on 

less than seven days’ notice to the 

public; that no earlier notice of the 

meeting was practicable; that the public 

interest did not require consideration of 

the matters in a meeting open to public 

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