[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66832-66834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27197]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0390; FRL-9367-3]
Notice of Receipt of Pesticide Products; Registration
Applications To Register New Uses
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces receipt of applications to register new
uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active
ingredients pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c) of the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. This
notice provides the public with an opportunity to comment on the
applications.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 7, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number and the EPA Registration Number or EPA File Symbol of
interest as specified in Unit II., 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.
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.htm. 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: A contact person is listed at the end
of each registration application summary and may be contacted by
telephone, email, or mail. Mail correspondence to the Registration
Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001. As part of the mailing address, include the contact person's
name, division, and mail code.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
You may be potentially affected by this action if you are an
agricultural producer, food manufacturer, or pesticide manufacturer.
The following list of North American Industrial Classification System
(NAICS) codes is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a
guide to help readers determine whether this document applies to them.
Potentially affected entities may include:
Crop production (NAICS code 111).
Animal production (NAICS code 112).
Food manufacturing (NAICS code 311).
Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 32532).
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 submitting comments,
remember to:
i. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).
ii. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to
specific questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and
substitute language for your requested changes.
iv. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used.
v. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
vi. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and
suggest alternatives.
vii. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of
profanity or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. Registration Applications
EPA has received applications to register new uses for pesticide
products containing currently registered active ingredients. Pursuant
to the provisions of FIFRA section 3(c)(4), EPA is hereby providing
notice of receipt and opportunity to comment on these applications.
Notice of receipt of these applications does not imply a decision by
the Agency on these applications. For actions being evaluated under the
Agency's public participation process for registration actions, there
will be an additional opportunity for a 30-day public comment period on
the proposed decision. Please see the Agency's public participation Web
site for additional information on this process (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/registration-public-involvement.html). EPA
received the following applications to register new uses for pesticide
products containing currently registered active ingredients:
1. EPA Registration Numbers: 524-421, 524-475, and 524-537. Docket
ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0132. Applicant: Monsanto Company, 1300 I
Street NW., Suite 450 East, Washington, DC 20005. Active ingredient:
Glyphosate. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses: Add wiper
applicator use over the top to carrot and sweet potato, add preharvest
use to oilseed crop group 20, add the use Teff (forage and hay), and
conversion of the following old crop groups to the following new crop
groups: Vegetable, bulb, group 3 to vegetable, bulb, group 3-07;
vegetable, fruiting, group 8 to vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10; fruit,
citrus, group 10 to fruit, citrus, group 10-10; fruit, pome, group 11
to fruit, pome, group 11-10; and berry group 13 to berry and small
fruit, group 13-07. Contact: Erik Kraft, (703) 308-9358, email address:
kraft.erik@epa.gov.
2. EPA Registration Numbers: 6836-107 and 71096-13. Docket ID
Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0706. Applicant: Lonza, Inc., 90 Boroline Road,
Allendale, NJ 07401; OR-CAL, Inc., 29454 Meadowview Road, Junction
City, OR 97448. Active ingredient: Metaldehyde. Product Type:
Molluscicide. Proposed Uses: Grass (forage and hay); leaf petioles
subgroup 4B; peppermint and spearmint (tops and oil); berry subgroups
13-07 A, B, and G; taro (corm and leaves); corn (sweet and field); and
soybean. Contact: Marianne Lewis, (703) 308-8043, email address:
lewis.marianne@epa.gov.
3. EPA Registration Numbers: 7969-185, 7969-186, 7969-187, 7969-
199, 7969-258, and 7969-289. Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0549.
Applicant: BASF Corporation, P.O. Box 13528, 26 Davis Drive, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27709. Active ingredient: Pyraclostrobin. Product
Type: Fungicide. Proposed Uses: Artichoke, globe; endive, Belgium;
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persimmon; vegetable, bulb, group 3-07; vegetable, fruiting, group 8-
10; fruit, citrus, group 10-10; fruit, pome, group 11-10; oilseed,
group 20; caneberry subgroup 13-07A; bushberry subgroup 13-07B; small
fruit, vine climbing, subgroup (except fuzzy kiwi) 13-07F; and low
growing, berry, subgroup 13-07G. Contact: Dominic Schuler, (703) 347-
0260, email address: schuler.dominic@epa.gov.
4. EPA Registration Numbers: 7969-197, 7969-198, and 7969-199.
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0713. Applicant: BASF Corporation,
P.O. Box 13528, 26 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
Active ingredient: Boscalid. Product Type: Fungicide. Proposed Uses:
Artichoke; endive, Belgium; persimmon; vegetable, bulb, group 3-07;
vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10; fruit, citrus, group 10-10; fruit,
pome, group 11-10; berry subgroups 13-07 A, B, F and G; oilseed, group
20; turnip, greens; and vegetable, root, subgroup 1B. Contact: Heather
Garvie, (703) 308-0034, email address: garvie.heather@epa.gov.
5. EPA Registration Numbers: 61842-22, 61842-23, and 61842-24.
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0791. Applicant: Syngenta Crop
Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27419-8300. Active
ingredient: Linuron. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses: Celeriac;
coriander (cilantro); dill; horseradish; parsley; pea (dry); and
rhubarb. Contact: Mindy Ondish, (703) 605-0723, email address:
ondish.mindy@epa.gov.
6. EPA Registration Numbers: 62719-99, 62719-131, and 62719-250.
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0304. Applicant: Dow AgroSciences
LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054. Active
ingredient: Trifluralin. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses:
Oilseed crop, group 20 (borage, calendula, camelina, Chinese
tallowtree, cuphea, echium, euphorbia, evening primrose, Hare's ear
mustard, jojoba, lesquerella, lunaria, meadowfoam, milkweed, mustard
seed, Niger seed, oil radish, poppy seed, rose hip, sesame, Stokes
aster, sweet rocket, tallow wood, tea oil plant, and vernonia).
Contact: Bethany Benbow, (703) 347-8072, email address:
benbow.bethany@epa.gov.
7. EPA Registration Numbers: 62719-132, 62719-184, and 62719-188.
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0303. Applicant: Dow AgroSciences
LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054. Active
ingredient: Ethalfluralin. Product Type: Herbicide. Proposed Uses:
Oilseed crop, group 20 (borage, calendula, Camelina, Chinese
tallowtree, Cuphea, Echium, Euphorbia, Evening primrose, Flaxseed,
Hare's ear mustard, jojoba, lesquerella, lunaria, meadowfoam, milkweed,
mustard seed, Niger seed, oil radish, poppy seed, rose hip, sesame,
Stokes aster, sweet rocket, tallow wood, tea oil plant, and vernonia).
Contact: Bethany Benbow, (703) 347-8072, email address:
benbow.bethany@epa.gov.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pest.
Dated: October 26, 2012.
Daniel J. Rosenblatt,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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