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Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

II. Background 

A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP 

FIFRA SAP serves as the primary 

scientific peer review mechanism of 

EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides 

and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) and is 

structured to provide scientific advice, 

information and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on pesticides 

and pesticide-related issues as to the 

impact of regulatory actions on health 

and the environment. FIFRA SAP is a 

Federal advisory committee established 

in 1975 under FIFRA that operates in 

accordance with requirements of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act. FIFRA 

SAP is composed of a permanent panel 

consisting of seven members who are 

appointed by the EPA Administrator 

from nominees provided by the National 

Institutes of Health and the National 

Science Foundation. FIFRA, as 

amended by FQPA, established a 

Science Review Board consisting of at 

least 60 scientists who are available to 

the SAP on an ad hoc basis to assist in 

reviews conducted by the SAP. As a 

peer review mechanism, FIFRA SAP 

provides comments, evaluations and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. 

B. Public Meeting 

The Office of Pesticide Programs has 

a number of ongoing activities to 

broaden the suite of computer-based 

methods to better predict potential 

hazards and improve the effectiveness 

of risk assessment and risk management 

by focusing the generation of new data 

on likely risks of concern. The use of 

structure-activity relationships (SARs) 

in early hazard identification is one 

such cost effective prioritization tool 

that can guide the systematic collection 

of key test data. EPA is required to 

screen all pesticide chemicals, which 

includes active ingredients and other 

(‘‘inert’’) ingredients for potential 

endocrine disruption (ED). The Agency 

must prioritize hundreds of chemicals 

for ED screening and testing in 

biologically complex and resource 

intensive assays. This FIFRA SAP 

review will be focused on an SAR 

approach that was developed for 

pesticide inert ingredients and 

antimicrobial pesticides to help 

prioritize candidate chemicals for the 

Tier 1 Endocrine Disruptor Screening 

Program specific to an estrogenmediated toxicity pathway. A 

particularly challenging issue is the 

development of prioritization 

techniques for chemicals, such as inert 

ingredients and some antimicrobial 

active ingredients that have minimal 

existing toxicological information. This 

SAR/Rule-Based Expert System for 

predicting estrogen receptor (ER) 

binding affinity is based on data derived 

from two in vitro assays: one optimized 

to measure the potential of chemicals to 

bind rainbow trout estrogen receptors 

(rtER), and a second that measures gene 

activation through production of 

vitellogenin. The SAP will be asked to 

comment on various aspects of the SAR/ 

Rule-Based Expert System including 

transparency of the approach, biological 

endpoint definition, mechanistic 

interpretation, and model’s applicability 

domain. 

C. FIFRA SAP Documents and Meeting 

Minutes 

EPA’s background paper, related 

supporting materials, charge/questions 

to FIFRA SAP, FIFRA SAP composition 

(i.e., members and ad hoc members for 

this meeting), and the meeting agenda 

will be available by August 10, 2009. In 

addition, the Agency may provide 

additional background documents as the 

materials become available. You may 

obtain electronic copies of these 

documents, and certain other related 

documents that might be available 

electronically, at http:// 

www.regulations.gov and the FIFRA 

SAP homepage at http://www.epa.gov/ 

scipoly/sap. 

FIFRA SAP will prepare meeting 

minutes summarizing its 

recommendations to the Agency 

approximately 90 days after the 

meeting. The meeting minutes will be 

posted on the FIFRA SAP website or 

may be obtained from the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: May 27, 2009. 

Frank Sanders, 

Director, Office of Science Coordination and 

Policy. 

[FR Doc. E9–12923 Filed 6–2–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–1019; FRL–8414–5] 

Nicotine; Product Cancellation Order 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

order for the cancellation, voluntarily 

requested by the registrant and accepted 

by the Agency, of products containing 

the pesticide nicotine, pursuant to 

section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation 

order follows an October 29, 2008 

Federal Register Notice of Receipt of 

Request from the nicotine registrant to 

voluntarily cancel its sole remaining 

nicotine product registration. This 

product registration is the last nicotine 

pesticide product registered for use in 

the United States. In the October 29, 

2008 Notice, EPA indicated that it 

would issue an order implementing the 

cancellation, unless the Agency 

received substantive comments within 

the 180– day comment period that 

would merit its further review of these 

requests, or unless the registrant 

withdrew its request within this period. 

The Agency did not receive any 

comments on the notice. Further, the 

registrant did not withdraw its request. 

Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this 

notice a cancellation order granting the 

requested cancellation. Any 

distribution, sale, or use of the nicotine 

product subject to this cancellation 

order is permitted only in accordance 

with the terms of this order, including 

any existing stocks provisions. 

DATES: The cancellation is effective 

January 1, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill 

Bloom, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001; telephone number: (703) 308– 

8019; fax number: (703) 308–7070; email address: bloom.jill@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 


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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—1019. 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. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

This notice announces the 

cancellation, as requested by the 

registrant, of the sole remaining nicotine 

end-use product registered under 

section 3 of FIFRA. This registration is 

listed in Table 1 of this unit. 

TABLE 1—NICOTINE PRODUCT

CANCELLATION

EPA Registration Number Product Name 

1327-41 Fulex Nicotine Fumigator 

Table 2 of this unit shows the name 

and address of record for the registrant 

of the registration listed in Table 1 of 

this unit. 

TABLE 2—REGISTRANT OF CANCELLED

NICOTINE PRODUCTS

EPA Company 

Number 

Company Name and Address 

1327 Fuller System, Inc. 

P.O. Box 3053, 

Woburn, MA 01888 

III. Summary of Public Comments 

Received and Agency Response to 

Comments 

During the public comment period, 

EPA received no comments in response 

to the October 29, 2008 Federal Register 

notice announcing the Agency’s receipt 

of the request for voluntary cancellation 

of the nicotine product identified in 

Table 1 of Unit II. 

IV. Cancellation Order 

Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f), EPA 

hereby approves the requested 

cancellation of the nicotine registration 

identified in Table 1 of Unit II. 

Accordingly, the Agency orders that the 

nicotine product registration identified 

in Table 1 of Unit II is hereby canceled, 

as of January 1, 2014, the effective date 

of this order. Any distribution, sale, or 

use of existing stocks of the products 

identified in Table 1 of Unit II in a 

manner inconsistent with any of the 

Provisions for Disposition of Existing 

Stocks set forth in Unit VI. will be 

considered a violation of FIFRA. 

V. 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. Thereafter, 

following the public comment period, 

the Administrator may approve such a 

request. 

VI. Provisions for Disposition of 

Existing Stocks 

Existing stocks are those stocks of 

registered pesticide products which are 

currently in the United States and 

which were packaged, labeled, and 

released for shipment prior to the 

effective date of the cancellation action. 

The cancellation order issued in this 

notice includes the following existing 

stocks provisions. 

The sale or distribution of existing 

stocks is permitted until December 31, 

2014. All sale or distribution of existing 

stocks is prohibited after December 31, 

2014, unless that sale or distribution is 

solely for the purpose of facilitating 

disposal or export of the product. The 

use of this product will be permitted 

until existing stocks are depleted. Any 

use of existing stocks must be in a 

manner consistent with the previouslyapproved labeling for this product. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: May 19, 2009. 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr. 

Director, Special Review and Reregistration 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–12561 Filed 6–2–09; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0599; FRL–8413–4] 

Iodine and Iodophors Reregistration 

Eligibility Decision 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) 

and supporting science documents for 

the pesticide iodine and iodophor 

complexes. The Reregistration 

Eligibility Decision document for iodine 

and iodophor complexes was signed on 

July 27, 2006 with additional revisions 

described in a March 17, 2009 

amendment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Garvie, Antimicrobials Division 

(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 308–0034; fax number: (703) 305– 

5620; e-mail address: 

garvie.heather@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, farm 

worker 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 


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