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Product Manager Office location/telephone number Address

PM 10 Richard Keigwin, Rm. 210, CM #2 (703–305–6788); email:

keigwin.richard@epamail.epa.gov.

Environmental Protection Agency

1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy

Arlington, VA 22202

PM 23 Joanne I. Miller, Rm. 237, CM #2 (703–305–6224); email: miller.joanne@epamail.epa.gov.-DoSUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA

received applications as follows to

register pesticide products containing

active ingredients not included in any

previously registered products pursuant

to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of

FIFRA. Notice of receipt of these

applications does not imply a decision

by the Agency on the applications.

Products Containing Active Ingredients

Not Included In Any Previously

Registered Products

1. File Symbol: 65331–E. Applicant:

Rhone Merieux, Incorporation, 115

Transtech Drive, Athen, GA 30601.

Product name: Frontline Top Spot.

Insecticide. Active ingredient: Fipronil

at 9.7 percent. Proposed classification/

Use: None. Used as spot treatment for

flea and tick control on dogs and cats.

(PM 10)

2. File Symbol: 64240–GN. Applicant:

Clorox Company P.O. Box 493, Pleasant,

CA 94566–0803. Product name: Combat

Ant Bait F1. Insecticide. Active

ingredient: Fipronil [5-amino-1-(2,6-

dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-4-

(1,R,S)-trifluoromethyl)sulfinyl)-1Hpyrazole-3-carbonitrile] at 0.01 percent.

Proposed classification/Use: None. For

indoor/outdoor use to kill ants most

commonly found in households. (PM

10)

3. File Symbol: 64248–RN. Applicant:

Clorox Co. Product name: Maxforce Ant

Bait F1. Insecticide. Active ingredient:

Fipronil [5-amino-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-

(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-4-(1,R,S)-

trifluoromethyl)sulfinyl)-1H-pyrazole-3-

carbonitrile] at 0.01 percent. Proposed

classification/Use: None. For indoor/

outdoor use to contol ants most

commonly found in institutions. (PM

10)

4. File Symbol: 64240–GR. Applicant:

Clorox Co. Product name: Combat Roach

Bait F1. Insecticide. Active ingredient:

Fipronil at 0.1 percent. Proposed

classification/Use: None. For use to

control roaches, waterbugs, and

palmetto bugs in households. (PM 10)

5. File Symbol: 64248–I. Applicant:

Clorox Co. Product name: Maxforce

Roach Bait F1. Insecticide. Active

ingredient: Fipronil 0.1 percent.

Proposed classification/Use: None. For

use to control large and small

cockroaches in institutions. (PM 10)

6. File Symbol: 264–LAA. Applicant:

Rhone-Poulenc Ag Company, P.O. Box

12014, 2 T.W. Alexander Drive,

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

Product name: Technical Isoxaflutole.

Herbicide. Active ingredient:

Isoxaflutole [5-cyclopropyl-4-(2-

methylsulfonyl-4-

trifluoromethylbenzoyl) isoxazole at 98

percent. Proposed classification/Use:

None. For manufacturing use only. (PM

23)

7. File Symbol: 264–LAT. Applicant:

Rhone-Poulenc Co. Product name:

Balance WDG Herbicide. Herbicide.

Active ingredient: Isoxaflutole [5-

cyclopropyl-4-(2-methylsulfonyl-4-

trifluoromethylbenzoyl) isoxazole at

76.5 percent. Proposed classification/

Use: None. For weed control in field

corn. (PM 23)

Notice of approval or denial of an

application to register a pesticide

product will be announced in the

Federal Register. The procedure for

requesting data will be given in the

Federal Register if an application is

approved.

Comments received within the

specified time period will be considered

before a final decision is made;

comments received after the time

specified will be considered only to the

extent possible without delaying

processing of the application.

A record has been established for this

notice under docket number [OPP–

30408] (including comments and data

submitted electronically as described

below). A public version of this record,

including printed, paper versions of

electronic comments, which does not

include any information claimed as CBI,

is available for inspection from 8 a.m. to

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

excluding legal holidays. The public

record is located in Rm. 1132 of the

Public Response and Program Resources

Branch, Field Operations Division

(7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs,

Environmental Protection Agency,

Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis

Highway, Arlington, VA.

Electronic comments can be sent

directly to EPA at:

opp-docket@epamail.epa.gov

Electronic comments must be

submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the

use of special characters and any form

of encryption.

The official record for this notice, as

well as the public version, as described

above will be kept in paper form.

Accordingly, EPA will transfer all

comments received electronically into

printed, paper form as they are received

and will place the paper copies in the

official record which will also include

all comments submitted directly in

writing. The official record is the paper

record maintained at the address in

‘‘ADDRESSES’’ at the beginning of this

document.

Written comments filed pursuant to

this notice, will be available in the

Public Response and Program Resources

Branch, Field Operations Division at the

address provided from 8 a.m. to 4:30

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding

legal holidays. It is suggested that

persons interested in reviewing the

application file, telephone this office at

(703–305–5805), to ensure that the file

is available on the date of intended visit.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides

and pests, Product registration.

Dated: April 15, 1996.

Stephen L. Johnson,

Director, Registration Division, Office of

Pesticide Programs.

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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Compliance

Application Guidance (CAG) Document

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Waste

Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal

Act, Pub. L. No. 102–579, EPA issued

final criteria for certifying whether the

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste

Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) complies

with EPA’s radioactive waste disposal

standards set forth at 40 CFR part 191

(‘‘Environmental Radiation Protection

Standards for Management and Disposal
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of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level and

Transuranic Radioactive Wastes’’)

published on February 9, 1996. The EPA

has developed a WIPP compliance

application guidance document that is

intended to be a companion to and

based upon the WIPP compliance

criteria. The EPA hereby announces that

the WIPP compliance application

guidance document is available to the

public. The guidance document

summarizes and, in some instances,

provides non-binding interpretations of

the final WIPP compliance criteria. In

developing the guidance document, the

EPA considered public comments on

the draft compliance application

guidance document that was announced

on October 18, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the compliance

application guidance document are

available to the public at EPA Docket

No. A–93–02 (Category II-B) maintained

at the following addresses: (1) room

1500 (first floor in the Waterside Mall

near the Washington Information

Center), U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Air Docket, 401 M Street, S.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20460 (open from 8:00

a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on weekdays); (2)

EPA’s docket in the Government

Publications Department of the

Zimmerman Library of the University of

New Mexico located in Albuquerque,

New Mexico (open from 8:00 a.m. to

9:00 p.m. on Monday through Thursday,

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 9:00

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, and 1:00

p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Sunday); (3) EPA’s

docket in the Fogelson Library of the

College of Santa Fe, located at 1600 St.

Michaels Drive, Santa Fe, New Mexico

(open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight

on Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00

p.m. on Saturday and 1:00 p.m. to 9:00

p.m. on Sunday); and (4) EPA’s docket

in the Municipal Library of Carlsbad,

New Mexico, located at 101 South

Halegueno (open from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00

p.m. on Monday through Thursday,

10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday and

Saturday, and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on

Sunday). As provided in 40 CFR Part 2,

a reasonable fee may be charged for

photocopying docket materials.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Agnes Ortiz, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Office of Radiation

and Indoor Air (6602J), 401 M Street,

S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460;

(202)233–9310.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department of Energy is proposing to

use the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

(WIPP), located in Eddy County, New

Mexico, as a deep geologic repository

for the disposal of transuranic

radioactive waste generated by nuclear

defense activities. The 1992 Waste

Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal

Act (Pub. L. No. 102–579) calls for EPA

to perform several regulatory activities

for the WIPP, including: (1) issuing

radioactive waste disposal standards; (2)

establishing criteria for EPA to

determine whether the WIPP complies

with the radioactive waste disposal

standards; and (3) certifying whether

DOE’s WIPP facility complies with the

disposal standards, based on a DOE

submitted compliance certification

application. See section 8 of the WIPP

Land Withdrawal Act. The WIPP Land

Withdrawal Act prohibits DOE from

commencing the emplacement of

transuranic waste for underground

disposal at the WIPP until EPA certifies

that the facility will comply with EPA’s

radioactive waste disposal standards.

See section 7(b) of the WIPP Land

Withdrawal Act.

EPA issued final radioactive waste

disposal standards, which are codified

at 40 CFR part 191. See 58 FR 66398

(Dec. 20, 1993). EPA also issued final

criteria, to be codified at 40 CFR part

194, for certifying whether the WIPP

facility will comply with EPA’s

radioactive waste disposal standards.

See 61 FR 5224 (Feb. 9, 1996) ‘‘Criteria

for the Certification and Recertification

of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s

Compliance with the 40 CFR Part 191

Disposal Regulations’’. The public is

referred to the Federal Register notices

of December 20, 1993, and February 9,

1996, for more detailed information

about the EPA’s regulatory activities at

the WIPP.

The compliance application guidance

(CAG), the subject of this notice, is a

guidance document for the final

compliance criteria 40 CFR part 194.

The final compliance criteria provide

that EPA’s evaluation for certifying, by

rule, whether WIPP is in compliance

with the radioactive waste disposal

standards will be initiated after EPA

determines that DOE has submitted a

complete compliance certification

application. See, e.g., 61 FR 5238. The

CAG summarizes and interprets the

final criteria related to the contents of

the compliance certification application

and is intended to guide EPA’s

assessment of whether the DOE

compliance application is complete.

Because it is a non-binding, interpretive

document, the CAG is not subject to the

notice-and-comment rulemaking

requirements of the Administrative

Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 553.

As noted, the CAG will guide EPA’s

assessment of whether DOE’s

compliance certification application is

complete. If the compliance certification

application is found to be complete,

EPA will subsequently determine, by

rule, whether the WIPP facility is in

compliance with the EPA’s radioactive

waste disposal standards. See section 8

(d) of the WIPP Land Withdrawal Act.

EPA’s certification decision will be

made only after EPA reviews DOE’s

compliance certification application

based on the final compliance criteria,

and conducts a WIPP certification

proceeding in accordance with the

Administrative Procedure Act

rulemaking requirements at 5 U.S.C.

553. Thus, before the Administrator of

EPA makes any final WIPP certification

decision, EPA will issue a proposed

decision in the Federal Register and

provide an opportunity for public

comment on the proposal. The

subsequent final certification decision

by the Administrator will consider the

comments received in response to the

proposal and be accompanied with a

reply to significant public comments.

Dated: April 23, 1996.

Richard Wilson,

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air

and Radiation.

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National Pollutant Discharge

Elimination System (NPDES);

Preparation of Final General Permit for

the States of Maine, Massachusetts,

and New Hampshire

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice; Preparation of Final

NPDES General Permits—MAG070000,

MEG070000, and NHG070000.

SUMMARY: The Regional Administrator

of the six states of New England is

issuing Notice of a Final National

Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

(NPDES) General Permit for

construction dewatering facilities in

certain waters of the States of Maine,

Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

This General Final NPDES Permit

establishes notice of intent (NOI)

requirements, effluent limitations,

standards, prohibitions and

management practices for the

construction dewatering discharges.

Owners and/or operators of facilities

discharging effluent from construction

dewatering facilities will be required to

submit to EPA, Region I, a notice of

intent (NOI) to be covered by the

appropriate general permit and will

receive a written notification from EPA