Document ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2020-0492-0018
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Transfer of Data: Department of Justice and Parties to Certain Litigation
Posted Date: 2021-12-09T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 234 (Thursday, December 9, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70124-70125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26629]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2020-0492; FRL-9613-01-OCSPP]

United States Department of Justice and Parties to Certain 
Litigation; Transfer of Data

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that pesticide related information 
submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including information 
that may have been claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI) 
by the submitter, will be transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice 
(DOJ) and parties to certain litigation. This transfer of data is in

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accordance with the CBI regulations governing the disclosure of 
potential CBI in litigation.

DATES: Access to this information by DOJ and the parties to certain 
litigation is ongoing and expected to continue during the litigation as 
discussed in this Notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marietta Echeverria, Registration 
Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 305-7090; email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is being provided pursuant to 40 
CFR 2.209(d) to inform affected businesses that EPA, via DOJ, will 
provide certain information to the parties and the Court in the 
consolidated matters of American Soybean Association v. U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency et al., Case No. 20-1441 (D.C. Cir.) 
(``Dicamba Litigation''). The information is contained in documents 
that have been submitted to EPA pursuant to FIFRA and FFDCA by 
pesticide registrants or other data-submitters, including information 
that has been claimed to be, or determined to potentially contain, CBI. 
In the Dicamba Litigation, the Petitioner seeks judicial review of 
three EPA registration decisions for products that contain dicamba for 
use on dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybeans, issued under FIFRA, 7 
U.S.C. 136 et seq.
    The documents are being produced as part of the Administrative 
Record of the decision at issue and include documents that registrants 
or other data-submitters may have submitted to EPA regarding the 
pesticide dicamba, and that may be subject to various release 
restrictions under federal law. The information includes documents 
submitted with pesticide registration applications and may include CBI 
as well as scientific studies subject to the disclosure restrictions of 
FIFRA section 10(g), 7 U.S.C. 136h(g).
    All documents that may be subject to release restrictions under 
federal law are designated as ``Protected Information'' under a 
Protective Order that was entered by the court in the Dicamba 
Litigation on November 4, 2021 (Doc. No. 1920892). The Protective Order 
precludes public disclosure of any such documents by the parties in 
this action who have received the information from EPA and limits the 
use of such documents to litigation purposes only. If filed with the 
Court, the Protective Order requires that such documents be filed under 
seal and not be available for public review.

(Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.; 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.)

    Dated: November 22, 2021.
Marietta Echeverria,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2021-26629 Filed 12-8-21; 8:45 am]
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