Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0014-0028
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Requests to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations and Amend Registrations to Terminate Certain Uses
Posted Date: 2019-07-24T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35670-35673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15682]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0014; FRL-9996-16]

Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Certain 
Pesticide Registrations and Amend Registrations To Terminate Certain 
Uses

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests 
by the registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide product 
registrations and to amend certain product registrations to terminate 
uses. 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 registrations have 
been cancelled and uses terminated 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 August 23, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0014, by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute.
     Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 
20460-0001. Submit written withdrawal request by mail to: Information 
Technology and Resources Management Division (7502P), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001. ATTN: Christopher Green.
     Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand 
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the 
instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. Additional 
instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along with more 
information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Green, Information 
Technology and Resources Management Division (7502P), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 347-0367; 
email address: green.christopher@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.

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 email. 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 preparing and submitting 
your comments, see the commenting tips at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.

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II. What action is the agency taking?

    This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants 
to cancel certain pesticide products and amend product registrations to 
terminate certain uses registered under FIFRA section 3 (7 U.S.C. 136a) 
or 24(c) (7 U.S.C. 136v(c)). The affected products and the registrants 
making the requests are identified in Tables 1-3 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 in the Federal 
Register canceling and amending the affected registrations.

                      Table 1--Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Cancellation
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           Registration No.               Company No.            Product name             Active ingredients \
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352-761...............................             352  Dupont DPX-QFU31 (MP)           Dicamba, sodium salt &
                                                         Herbicide.                      Rimsulfuron.
6836-177..............................            6836  Lonza Formulation P-39........  Pine oil & Alkyl*
                                                                                         dimethyl benzyl
                                                                                         ammonium chloride
                                                                                         *(58%C14, 28%C16,
                                                                                         14%C12).
8660-161..............................            8660  0.2% Barricade Crabgrass        Prodiamine.
                                                         Control with Fertilizer.
8660-162..............................            8660  0.3% Barricade Crabgrass        Prodiamine.
                                                         Control with Fertilizer.
8660-163..............................            8660  0.4% Barricade Crabgrass        Prodiamine.
                                                         Control with Fertilizer.
8660-164..............................            8660  Sta-Green Crabgrass Preventer.  Prodiamine.
8660-200..............................            8660  Koos Crabgrass Preventer with   Prodiamine.
                                                         0.223 Barricade Preemergence
                                                         Herbicide.
8660-216..............................            8660  Par EX Slow Release Fertilizer  Prodiamine.
                                                         with .345 Barricade Herbicide.
8660-249..............................            8660  Par EX Fertilizer Plus          Prodiamine.
                                                         Crabgrass Preventer with
                                                         0.475% Barricade Preem.
9779-297..............................            9779  Prometryne 4L Herbicide.......  Prometryn.
12455-107.............................           12455  Tomcat Ant Killer.............  Indoxacarb.
12455-118.............................           12455  Tomcat Ant Gel................  Indoxacarb.
45728-29..............................           45728  SDDC..........................  Sodium
                                                                                         dimethyldithiocarbamate
                                                                                         .
59820-4...............................           59820  Acarosan Moist Powder.........  Benylate.
64898-5...............................           64898  Razorooter....................  Dichlobenil.
87290-44..............................           87290  Willowood Azoxystrobin 2.08SC.  Azoxystrobin.
87290-56..............................           87290  Willowood Azoxyprop Xtra......  Propiconazole &
                                                                                         Azoxystrobin.
87290-60..............................           87290  Willowood Tebustrobin SC......  Tebuconazole &
                                                                                         Azoxystrobin.
87290-63..............................           87290  Willowood Pyrac 2SC...........  Pyraclostrobin.
87290-64..............................           87290  Willowood Pyrac 2EC...........  Pyraclostrobin.
89966-2...............................           89966  Azoxystrobin Technical........  Azoxystrobin.
93051-1...............................           93051  RightLine Pyrac 2 MEC.........  Pyraclostrobin.
93051-2...............................           93051  RightLine Pyraprop MEC........  Pyraclostrobin &
                                                                                         Propiconazole.
93051-3...............................           93051  RightLine CHILL LC............  Pyraclostrobin.
93088-1...............................           93088  Pyraclostrobin Technical......  Pyraclostrobin.
AL-120005.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
DE-170001.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
IA-170003.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
ID-130006.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
LA-120006.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
MA-160001.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
MI-130001.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
MN-120003.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
MO-120004.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
MO-160005.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
MS-120009.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
NC-130002.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
ND-130002.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
NJ-130002.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
NY-170005.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
PA-130001.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
SD-130003.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
SD-150006.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
SD-170003.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
TX-130001.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
UT-180006.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
VT-120001.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
WI-130004.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
WY-140003.............................           69969  Avipel Liquid Corn Seed         Anthraquinone.
                                                         Treatment.
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                     Table 1A--Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Cancellation
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            Registration No.                Company No.          Product name             Active ingredients
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1021-2753...............................            1021  VBC Dinotefuran Technical.  Dinotefuran.
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    The registrant of the registration in Table 1A, requests the 
cancellation to be effective on May 1, 2019.

                       Table 2--Product Registrations With Pending Requests for Amendment
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                                                                                                  Uses to be
         Registration No.            Company No.       Product name      Active ingredient        terminated
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100-1453.........................             100  Stadium Fungicide..  Difenoconazole;      Ornamental uses and
                                                                         Fludioxonil &        associated label
                                                                         Azoxystrobin.        language.
42182-1..........................           42182  Microban Additive B  Triclosan..........  Treatment of
                                                                                              apparel, blankets,
                                                                                              cloths, curtains,
                                                                                              fabrics, linens
                                                                                              and similar
                                                                                              textiles.
42182-7..........................           42182  Microban Additive B  Triclosan..........  Disallow
                                                    MUP.                                      formulation into
                                                                                              products used to
                                                                                              make/treat
                                                                                              agricultural
                                                                                              plastic films/
                                                                                              mulches; products
                                                                                              used to treat HVAC
                                                                                              (heating/air
                                                                                              conditioning)
                                                                                              coils & products
                                                                                              used to treat
                                                                                              textiles.
89046-11.........................           89046  Bioprotec            Bacillus             Forestry use.
                                                    Caterpillar          thuringiensis
                                                    Insecticide          subspecies
                                                    Concentrate.         kurstaki, strain
                                                                         EVB-113-19.
89046-12.........................           89046  Bioprotec Plus.....  Bacillus             Forestry use.
                                                                         thuringiensis
                                                                         subspecies
                                                                         kurstaki, strain
                                                                         EVB-113-19.
89046-14.........................           89046  Bioprotek..........  Bacillus             Forestry use.
                                                                         thuringiensis
                                                                         subspecies
                                                                         kurstaki, strain
                                                                         EVB-113-19.
90736-2..........................           90736  Tebuconazole Tech..  Tebuconazole.......  Residential use.
91232-3..........................           91232  FD Tebuconazole      Tebuconazole.......  Residential use.
                                                    3.6F.
92760-4..........................           92760  Ultra-Fresh NM.....  Triclosan..........  Apparel use.
92760-6..........................           92760  Ultra-Fresh NM-100.  Triclosan..........  Apparel use.
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    Table 3 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for 
all the registrants of the products listed in Tables 1, 1A & 2 of this 
unit, in sequence by EPA company number. This number corresponds to the 
first part of the EPA registration numbers of the products listed in 
Table 1, Table 1A and Table 2 of this unit.

Table 3--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation and/or Amendments
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       EPA Company No.                  Company name and address
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100..........................  Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, 410 Swing
                                Road, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC
                                27419-8300.
352..........................  E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company,
                                9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, IN
                                46268.
1021.........................  Mclaughlin Gormley King Company, D/B/A
                                MGK, 8810 Tenth Ave. North, Minneapolis,
                                MN 55427-4319.
6836.........................  Lonza Inc., Agent Name: Exponent, Inc.,
                                1150 Conn. Ave. NW, Suite 1100,
                                Washington, DC 20036.
8660.........................  United Industries Corp., D/B/A Sylorr
                                Plant Corp., P.O. Box 142642, St. Louis,
                                MO 63114-0642.
9779.........................  Winfield Solutions, LLC, P.O. Box 64589,
                                St. Paul, MN 55164-0589.
12455........................  Bell Laboratories, Inc., 3699 Kinsman
                                Blvd., Madison, WI 53704.
42182........................  Microban Products Company, Agent Name:
                                Scientific & Regulatory Consultants,
                                Inc., 201 W Van Buren Street, Columbia
                                City, IN 46725.
45728........................  Taminco US, LLC, A Subsidiary of Eastman
                                Chemical Company, 200 S Wilcox Dr.,
                                Kingsport, TN 37660-5147.
59820........................  Allergopharma Joachim, Hermann-Korner-
                                Str. 52, 21465 Reinbek, Germany.
64898........................  Sewer Sciences, Inc., 1020 Hiawatha
                                Boulevard West, Syracuse, NY 13204-1131.
69969........................  Arkion Life Sciences, LLC, Agent Name:
                                Landis International, Inc., 3815 Madison
                                Highway, P.O. Box 5126, Valdosta, GA
                                31603-5126.
87290........................  Willowood, LLC, Agent Name: Wagner
                                Regulatory Associates, Inc., P.O. Box
                                640, Hockessin, DE 19707-0640.
89046........................  AEF Global, Inc., Agent Name: SciReg,
                                Inc., 12733 Director's Loop, Woodbridge,
                                VA 22192.
89966........................  Greenfields Marketing, Ltd., Agent Name:
                                Wagner Regulatory Associates, Inc., P.O.
                                Box 640, Hockessin, DE 19707.
90736........................  Jiangsu Fengdeng Crop Science Co., Ltd.,
                                Agent Name: Pyxis Regulatory Consulting,
                                Inc., 4110 136th St. Ct. NW, Gig Harbor,
                                WA 98332.
91232........................  Fengdeng USA, Inc., 123 Cornell Road,
                                Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
92760........................  Thomson Research Associates, Inc., Agent
                                Name: Scientific & Regulatory
                                Consultants, Inc., 201 West Van Buren
                                Street, Columbia City, IN 46725.
93051........................  RightLine, LLC, Agent Name: Pyxis
                                Regulatory Consulting, Inc., 4110 136th
                                Street Ct. NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98332.
93088........................  Willowood USA, LLC, Agent Name: Pyxis
                                Regulatory Consulting, Inc., 4110 136th
                                Street Ct. NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98332.
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III. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?

    Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)) 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 (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)(B)) requires that 
before acting on a request for voluntary cancellation,

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EPA must provide a 30-day public comment period on the request for 
voluntary cancellation or use termination. In addition, FIFRA section 
6(f)(1)(C) (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)(C)) 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
    2. The EPA Administrator determines that continued use of the 
pesticide would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment.
    The registrants listed in Table 3 of Unit II have requested that 
EPA waive the 180-day comment period. Accordingly, EPA will provide a 
30-day comment period on the proposed requests.

IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of Requests

    Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for product 
cancellation or use termination 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 or termination 
action, the effective date of cancellation or termination and all other 
provisions of any earlier cancellation or termination action are 
controlling.

V. 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 and amendments to 
terminate uses 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 and for amendments to terminate uses, EPA 
proposes to include the following provisions for the treatment of any 
existing stocks of the products listed in Table 1, Table 1A and Table 2 
of Unit II.

A. For Product: 1021-2753 Listed in Table 1A of Unit II

    The registrant has requested to the agency via letter, the 
effective date of the voluntary cancellation of product 1021-2753 to 
be, May 01, 2019; therefore, the registrant will be permitted to sell 
and distribute existing stocks for 1 year, which will be until May 01, 
2020.
    For all other voluntary product cancellations, identified in Table 
1 of Unit II, 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 Tables 1 and 1A, of Unit II, 
except for export consistent with FIFRA section 17 (7 U.S.C. 136o) or 
for proper disposal.
    Once EPA has approved product labels reflecting the requested 
amendments to terminate uses, identified in Table 2 of Unit II, 
registrants will be permitted to sell or distribute products under the 
previously approved labeling for a period of 18 months after the date 
of Federal Register publication of the cancellation order, unless other 
restrictions have been imposed. Thereafter, registrants will be 
prohibited from selling or distributing the products whose labels 
include the terminated uses identified in Table 2 of Unit II, except 
for export consistent with FIFRA section 17 or for proper disposal.
    Persons other than the registrant may sell, distribute, or use 
existing stocks of canceled products and products whose labels include 
the terminated uses 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 and terminated uses.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

    Dated: July 10, 2019.
Delores Barber,
Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division, 
Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2019-15682 Filed 7-23-19; 8:45 am]
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