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 Environmental Protection Agency [EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0347; FRL-8823-1]
 AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 ACTION: Notice.
 SUMMARY: In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by the registrants to voluntarily cancel their registrations of certain products containing the pesticide carbaryl. The requests would not terminate the last carbaryl products registered for use in the United States. EPA intends to grant these requests 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 requests, or unless the registrants withdraw their requests. If these requests are granted, any sale, distribution, or use of products listed in this notice will be permitted after the registration has been canceled only if such sale, distribution, or use is consistent with the terms as described in the final order.
 DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 4, 2010.
 ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0347, 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-2008-0347. 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 e-mail. 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: Jacqueline Guerry, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (215) 814-2184; fax number: (215) 814-3113; e-mail address: 
                        *guerry.jacqueline@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. 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.
                    ( print page 24698) 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 on the Receipt of Requests To Cancel Registrations This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants Bayer Environmental Science and Bayer CropScience to cancel certain carbaryl product registrations. In letters dated March 26, 2010 and April 7, 2010, Bayer Environmental Science and Bayer CropScience, respectively, requested EPA to cancel affected product registrations and to terminate uses of pesticide product registrations identified in Table 1 of this notice. Specifically, Bayer Environmental Science chose not to submit revised section 3 labels in response to the carbaryl product reregistration process, and Bayer CropScience stated the 24c special local need registrations are no longer needed. The registrants’ requests will not terminate the last carbaryl products registered in the United States, or the last pesticide products registered in the United States for these uses. III. What Action Is the Agency Taking? This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants to cancel certain carbaryl product registrations. The affected products and the registrants making the requests are identified in Tables 1 and 2 of this unit. Unless a request is withdrawn by the registrant or if the Agency determines that there are substantive comments that warrant further review of this request, EPA intends to issue an order canceling the affected registrations. **Table 1.—Carbaryl Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Cancellation**
Registration No.
Product name
Company000423-1237
BES Garden Dust 10%
Bayer Environmental Science000423-1238
AES Carbaryl Insecticide Spray RTU
Bayer Environmental Science000432-1239
BES Garden Dust 5%
Bayer Environmental Science000432-1244
AES Sevin Granules Ant, Flea, Tick & Grub Killer (1% Sevin)
Bayer Environmental Science000264 CA-810059
Sevin 80S
Bayer CropScience000264 DE-010002
Sevin XLR Plus
Bayer CropScience000264 FL-890036
Sevin 80S
Bayer CropScience000264 FL-890037
Sevin 4F
Bayer CropScience000264 MD-010001
Sevin XLR Plus
Bayer CropScience000264 PA-010002
Sevin XLR Plus
Bayer CropScience
 Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for the registrants of the products listed in Table 1 of this unit. **Table 2.—Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation**
EPA company No.
Company name and 
                             address000432
Bayer Environmental Science
                             2.T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12014 
                             Research Triangle Park, NC 27709000264
Bayer CropScience
                             2.T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12014 
                             Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
 IV. 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 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 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, section 6(f)(1)(C) of FIFRA 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
                    ( print page 24699) 2. The Administrator determines that continued use of the pesticide would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment. The carbaryl registrants have requested that EPA waive the 180-day comment period. 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. For voluntary product cancellations, registrants will be permitted to sell and distribute existing stocks of voluntarily canceled products for 1-year after the effective date of the cancellation, which will be the date of publication of the cancellation order in the 
                    **Federal Register**
                    . Thereafter, registrants will be prohibited from selling or distributing the products identified in Table 1, except for export consistent with section 17 of FIFRA 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.  List of Subjects Environmental protection
Pesticides and pests
 Dated: April 23, 2010. Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.


[FR Doc. 2010-10643 Filed 5-4-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-S