Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/04/17/03-9483/pesticide-tolerance-nomenclature-changes-proposed-technical-amendment
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Comments, identified by docket ID number OPP-2002-0043, must be received on or before June 16, 2003.
68 FR 18935
18935-18942 (8 pages)
FRL-7180-2
03-9483
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This document proposes to make minor revisions to the terminology of certain commodity terms listed under 40 CFR part 180, subpart C. EPA is proposing this action to establish a uniform listing of commodity terms.
1. Electronically. If you submit an electronic comment as prescribed in this Start Printed Page 18936unit, EPA recommends that you include your name, mailing address, and an e-mail address or other contact information in the body of your comment. Also include this contact information on the outside of any disk or CD ROM you submit, and in any cover letter accompanying the disk or CD ROM. This ensures that you can be identified as the submitter of the comment and allows EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties or needs further information on the substance of your comment. EPA's policy is that EPA will not edit your comment, and any identifying or contact information provided in the body of a comment will be included as part of the comment that is placed in the official public docket, and made available in EPA's electronic public docket. 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.
i. EPA Dockets. Your use of EPA's electronic public docket to submit comments to EPA electronically is EPA's preferred method for receiving comments. Go directly to EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/​edocket, and follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once in the system, select “search,” and then key in docket ID number OPP-2002-0043. The system is an “anonymous access” system, which means EPA will not know your identity, e-mail address, or other contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
ii. E-mail. Comments may be sent by e-mail to opp-docket@epa.gov, Attention: Docket ID Number OPP-2002-0043. In contrast to EPA's electronic public docket, EPA's e-mail system is not an “anonymous access” system. If you send an e-mail comment directly to the docket without going through EPA's electronic public docket, EPA's e-mail system automatically captures your e-mail address. E-mail addresses that are automatically captured by EPA's e-mail system are included as part of the comment that is placed in the official public docket, and made available in EPA's electronic public docket.
EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) has developed a commodity vocabulary data base entitled Food and Feed Commodity Vocabulary. The data base was developed to consolidate all the major OPP commodity vocabularies into one standardized vocabulary. As a result, all future pesticide tolerances issued under 40 CFR part 180 will use the “preferred commodity term” as listed in the aforementioned data base. This is the third in a series of documents revising the terminology of commodity terms listed under 40 CFR part 180. Final rules, revising pesticide tolerance nomenclature, were published in the Federal Register on June 19, 2002 (67 FR 41802) (FRL-6835-2) and June 21, 2002 (67 FR 42392) (FRL-7180-1). This revision process will establish a uniform presentation of existing commodity terms under 40 CFR part 180. In this rule, EPA is making the following format changes to terminology of the commodity terms in 40 CFR part 180 to the extent the terminology is not already in this format:
4. Abbreviated terms are replaced with the appropriate commodity terms. Examples - “K=CWHR)” is replaced with “kernel plus cob with husks removed” and “POST-H” is replaced with “postharvest”.
5. Parenthesis are replaced with commas. Example - “Cherry (sweet), postharvest” is replaced with “Cherry, sweet, postharvest”.
6. Crop group terms are revised to standardize with the “Food and Feed Vocabulary”. Examples -
ii. “Fruit, stone (cherry, peach, plum, prune) group” is replaced with “Fruit, stone,group 12”.
iii. “Grass forage, fodder and hay” and “Grass, forage, fodder, and hay” are replaced with “Grass, forage, fodder and hay group 17”.
iv. “ Herbs and spices” is replaced with “Herb and spice group 19”. -
In addition to format changes to the commodity terms, this document also includes many revisions to the commodity terms. These revisions replace certain commodity terms that are no longer used by EPA with the appropriate matching term in the “Food and Feed Vocabulary”. For example, “Clover, green” is replaced with “Clover, forage”, “Peanut vines” is replaced with “Peanut, hay”, “Swine, meat” is replaced with “Hog, meat”, and “Bushnuts” is replaced with “Nut, macadamia”.
This document also proposes the deletion of certain terms that are not needed to identify the tolerance commodities. Examples -
iii. The terms “nutmeat” and “nutmeats” when used in association with the tree nut crops or peanut are not needed. For tree nut crops, nutmeat and almond hulls are the only edible portions of the crop consumed. Therefore, OPP's Food and Feed Vocabulary uses the commodity terms “Almond”, “Pecan”, “Walnut”, etc. for the tree nuts and the commodity term “Peanut is used in place of “Peanut, nutmeat”. Since almond hulls are fed to livestock, tolerances may be established for “Almond, hulls”.
This document proposes technical amendments to the Code of Federal Start Printed Page 18937Regulations which have no substantive impact on the underlying regulations, and do not otherwise impose or amend any requirements. As such, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has determined that a technical amendment is not a “significant regulatory action” subject to review by OMB under Executive Order 12866, entitled Regulatory Planning and Review (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993). Because this proposed rule has been exempted from review under Executive Order 12866 due to its lack of significance, this proposed rule is not subject to Executive Order 13211, Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001). This proposed rule does not contain any information collections subject to OMB approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., or impose any enforceable duty or contain any unfunded mandate as described under Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) (Public Law 104-4). Nor does it require any special considerations under Executive Order 12898, entitled Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994); or OMB review or any Agency action under Executive Order 13045, entitled Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997). This action does not involve any technical standards that would require Agency consideration of voluntary consensus standards pursuant to section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (NTTAA), Public Law 104-113, section 12(d) (15 U.S.C. 272 note). The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) generally requires an agency to prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis of any rule subject to notice and comment rulemaking requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act or any other statute unless the agency certifies that the rule will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities. Small entities include small businesses, small organizations, and small governmental organizations. After considering the economic impacts of today's proposed rule on small entities, I certify that this action will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. This action proposes technical amendments to the Code of Federal Regulations which have no substantive impact on the underyling regulations. This technical amendment will not have any negative economic impact on any entities, including small entities. In addition, the Agency has determined that this action will not have a substantial direct effect on States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government, as specified in Executive Order 13132, entitled Federalism (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999). Executive Order 13132 requires EPA to develop an accountable process to ensure “meaningful and timely input by State and local officials in the development of regulatory policies that have federalism implications.” “Policies that have federalism implications” is defined in the Executive Order to include regulations that have “substantial direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.” This proposed rule directly regulates growers, food processors, food handlers and food retailers, not States. This action does not alter the relationships or distribution of power and responsibilities established by Congress in the preemption provisions of section 408(n)(4) of the FFDCA. For these same reasons, the Agency has determined that this proposed rule does not have any “tribal implications” as described in Executive Order 13175, entitled Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments (65 FR 67249, November 6, 2000). Executive Order 13175, requires EPA to develop an accountable process to ensure “meaningful and timely input by tribal officials in the development of regulatory policies that have tribal implications.” “Policies that have tribal implications” is defined in the Executive Order to include regulations that have “substantial direct effects on one or more Indian tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian tribes.” This proposed rule will not have substantial direct effects on tribal governments, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian tribes, as specified in Executive Order 13175. Thus, Executive Order 13175 does not apply to this proposed rule.
Therefore, 40 CFR part 180 is proposed to be amended as follows:
2. In § 180.301, the table to paragraph (a) is amended by changing the term “ Corn, fresh, including sweet corn (K=CWHR)” to read “Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed” and by realphabetizing the entry into the table.
3. In 180.491, the table to paragraph (a)(3) is revised to read as follows:
4. In § 180.495, the table to paragraph (a) is amended by changing the entry “Poultry, eggs” to read “Egg” and by realphabetizing the entry into the table.
5. Subpart C is amended as follows:
d. (negligible residue)
e. , nutmeat
f. , nutmeats
g. nut meat
h. nutmeat
i. nutmeats
j. (nutmeats)
k. (nuts)
l. (= N in whole milk)
m. (PRE-S appli)
n. (pre-s)
ii. In the following table, by changing the term exactly as it appears in the Start Printed Page 18938Existing Term column to read exactly like the term in the New Term column wherever it appears in subpart C, and by realphabetizing the new term where necessary.
Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup (Crop Subgroup 5-B) Leafy greens subgroup 4A
Canarygrass, annual, seed-- Grass, canary, annual, seed
Corn, field, stover (fodder)--- Corn, stover
Crop Group 16 (forage, stover and hay of Grain cereal) Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, Group 16
Herbs and spices---- Herbs and spices group 19
Leafy petioles subgroup--- Leafy petioles subgroup 4B
Mandarins---- Tangerines
Sorghum, forage---- Sorghum, grain, forage
(tops PRE-H)- tops
Wheat, forage (green)- Wheat, forage
Wheat, forage, green Wheat, forage
Wheat, green fodder Wheat, hay
Wheat, green forage Wheat, forage
Wheat, stover Wheat, straw
Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5
Vegetable, brassica, leafy group Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5
Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group (except broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and mustard greens) Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5, except broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and mustard greens
Vegetable, bulb, group Vegetable, bulb, group 3
Vegetable, cucurbit, crop group-- Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9
Vegetable, cucurbit, group Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9
Vegetable, leaf petiole, subgroup-- Leafy petioles subgroup 4B
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