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listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
B. How Can I Get Copies of this
Document and Other Related
Information?
1. Docket. i. EPA has established a
docket for this action under Docket
identification number (ID) EPA–HQ–
OPP–2004–0048. Publicly available
docket materials are available
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov.
ii. Important Note: OPP will be
moving to a new location the first week
of May 2006. As a result, from Friday,
April 28 to Friday, May 5, 2006, the
OPP Regulatory Public Docket will NOT
be accepting any deliveries at the
Crystal Mall #2 address and this facility
will be closed to the public. Beginning
on May 8, 2006, the OPP Regulatory
Public Docket will reopen at 8:30 a.m.
and deliveries will be accepted in Rm.
S–4400, One Potomac Yard (South
Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive,
Arlington, VA 22202. The mail code for
the mailing address will change to
(7502P), but will otherwise remain the
same. The OPP Regulatory Public
Docket telephone number ((703) 305–
5805) and hours of operation (8:30 a.m.
to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays) will remain
the same after the move.
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 amitraz products Ovasyn
Insecticide/Miticide and Mitac W
Insecticide, registered under section 3 of
FIFRA. These registrations are listed in
sequence by registration number in the
following Table 1:
TABLE 1.—AMITRAZ PRODUCT
CANCELLATIONS
EPA Registration
Product Name
No.
264–625 Ovasyn Insecticide/
Miticide
264–636 Mitac W Insecticide
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Table 2 of this unit includes the name
and address of record for the registrant
of the products in Table 1.
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TABLE 2.—REGISTRANT OF
CANCELLED AMITRAZ PRODUCTS
Company Name and
EPA Company No. Address
264 Bayer CropScience
2 T.W. Alexander
Drive
Research Triangle
Park, NC 27709
III. Summary of Public Comments
Received and Agency Response to
Comments
During the public comment period
provided, EPA received no comments in
response to the March 17, 2004 Federal
Register notice announcing the
Agency’s receipt of the requests for
voluntary cancellations and
amendments to terminate uses of
amitraz.
IV. Cancellation Order
Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f), EPA
hereby approves the requested
cancellations of amitraz registrations
identified in Table 1 of Unit II.
Accordingly, the Agency orders that the
amitraz product registrations identified
in Table 1 of Unit II are hereby
canceled. 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 below 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
arecurrently 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 Agency has authorized the
registrants to sell or distribute product
under the previously approved labeling
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for a period of 18 months after the
approval of the cancellation, unless
other restrictions have been imposed, as
in special review actions.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides
and pests.
Dated: April 20, 2006.
Debra Edwards,
Director, Special Review and Reregistration
Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E6–6617 Filed 5–2–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–S
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0347; FRL–8060–2]
Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petitions
for Establishment of Regulations for
the Residues of Propiconazole and Its
Metabolites Containing the
Dichlorobenzoic Acid (DCBA) Moiety in
or on Various Food and Feed
Commodities
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
initial filing of pesticide petitions
proposing the establishment of
regulations for the residues of the
fungicide propiconazole and its
metabolites containing the
dichlorobenzoic acid (DCBA) moiety in
or on leafy vegetables (Subgroup 4B);
cranberry; mint; almond, hulls; berries
(Group 13); carrot, roots; legume
vegetables (Group 6); foliage of legume
vegetables (Group 7), forage and hay;
onion, dry bulb and green; pistachios;
tree nuts (Group 14); sorghum, grain/
forage/stover; soybeans, forage/hay/
seed; strawberry; grain cereal (Group 15,
except corn, rice and sorghum), bran/
forage/hay/straw; corn, forage/grain/
stover/oil; sugar beet, dried pulp/
molasses/ roots/tops; rice, aspirated
grain fraction/bran/grain/hulls; and
alfalfa, forage/hay.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before June 2, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0347 and
pesticide petition numbers (PPs)
6E4788, 7E4860, 8E4931, 2F6371, and
5F4498 by one of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502C),
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Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460-0001.
• Hand Delivery: OPP Regulatory
Public Docket, Environmental
Protection Agency, Rm. 119, Crystal
Mall #2, 1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA.
Deliveries are only accepted during the
Docket’s normal hours of operation
(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays).
Special arrangements should be made
for deliveries of boxed information. The
Docket telephone number is (703) 305-
5805.
• Important Note: OPP will be moving
to a new location the first week of May
2006. As a result, from Friday, April 28
to Friday, May 5, 2006, the OPP
Regulatory Public Docket will NOT be
accepting any deliveries at the Crystal
Mall #2 address and this facility will be
closed to the public. Beginning on May
8, 2006, the OPP Regulatory Public
Docket will reopen at 8:30 a.m. and
deliveries will be accepted in Rm. S-
4400, One Potomac Yard (South
Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive,
Arlington, VA 22202. The mail code for
the mailing address will change to
(7502P), but will otherwise remain the
same. The Docket telephone number
and hours of operation will remain the
same after the move.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–
0347. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the docket
without change and may be made
available on-line at http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through regulations.gov or e-
mail. The Federal regulations.gov
website is an ‘‘anonymous access’’
system, which means EPA will not
know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the
body of your comment. If you send an
e-mail comment directly to EPA without
going through regulations.gov, your e-
mail address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the docket
and made available on the Internet. If
you submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
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the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
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able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the docket index. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
is not placed on the Internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket
materials are available in the electronic
docket at http://www.regulations.gov,
or, if only available in hard copy, at the
OPP Regulatory Public Docket at the
location identified under ‘‘Delivery’’
and ‘‘Important Note.’’ The hours of
operation for this Docket Facility are
from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The Docket telephone number
is (703) 305-5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Waller, Registration Division
(7505C), Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460-0001; telephone number:
(703) 308-9354; e-mail address:
waller.mary@epa.gov.
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. Potentially
affected entities may include, but are
not limited to:
• Crop production (NAICS code 111).
• Animal production (NAICS code
112).
• Food manufacturing (NAICS code
311).
• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS
code 32532).
This listing is not intended to be
exhaustive, but rather provides a guide
for readers regarding entities likely to be
affected by this action. Other types of
entities not listed in this unit could also
be affected. The North American
Industrial Classification System
(NAICS) codes have been provided to
assist you and others in determining
whether this action might apply to
certain entities. If you have any
questions regarding the applicability of
this action to a particular entity, consult
the person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
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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 e-mail. 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. What Action is the Agency Taking?
EPA is printing a summary of each
pesticide petition received under
section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C.
346a, proposing the establishment of
regulations in 40 CFR part 180 for
residues of pesticide chemicals in or on
various food commodities. EPA has
determined that this pesticide petition
contains data or information regarding
the elements set forth in FFDCA section
408(d)(2); however, EPA has not fully
evaluated the sufficiency of the
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submitted data at this time or whether
the data support granting of the
pesticide petition. Additional data may
be needed before EPA rules on this
pesticide petition.
Pursuant to 40 CFR 180.7(f), a
summary of the petition included in this
notice, prepared by the petitioner along
with a description of the analytical
method available for the detection and
measurement of the pesticide chemical
residues is available on EPA’s Electronic
Docket at http://www.regulations.gov.
To locate this information on the home
page of EPA’s Electronic Docket, select
‘‘Quick Search’’ and type the OPP
docket ID number. Once the search has
located the docket, clicking on the
‘‘Docket ID’’ will bring up a list of all
documents in the docket for the
pesticide including the petition
summary.
New Tolerances
1. PP 6E4788. Interregional Research
Project No. 4 (IR-4), 681 US Highway #1
South, North Brunswick, NJ 08902,
proposes to establish a tolerance for the
residues of the fungicide propiconazole
and its metabolites containing the
dichlorobenzoic acid (DCBA) moiety in
or on food and feed commodities leafy
vegetables (Subgroup 4B) at 5.0 parts
per million (ppm); and
2. PP 7E4860. Cranberry at.1.0 ppm;
and
3. PP 8E4931. Mint at.3.0 ppm.
4. PP 2F6371. Syngenta Crop
Protection, Inc., P.O. Box 18300,
Greensboro, NC 27419-8300, proposes to
establish a tolerance for the residues of
the fungicide propiconazole and its
metabolites containing the
dichlorobenzoic acid (DCBA) moiety in
or on food and feed commodities
almond, hulls and onion, green at 8.0
ppm; berries (Group 13) and legume
vegetables (Group 6) at 1.0 ppm; foliage
of legume vegetables (Group 7)/
sorghum/soybean, forage and sugar beet,
tops at 10.0 ppm; carrot, roots/
pistachios/nuts, tree (Group 14) at 0.2
ppm; foliage of legume vegetable (Group
7)/soybean, hay at 32.0 ppm; onion, dry
bulb/corn, grain/sugar beet, roots at 0.3
ppm; sorghum, grain/grain cereal group
(except corn, rice, and sorghum), bran at
2.5 ppm; sorghum, stover at 15.0 ppm;
soybean, seed/grain, cereal group
(except corn, rice, and sorghum), hay/
sugar beet, dried pulp at 2.0 ppm;
strawberry at 1.5 ppm; grain, cereal
group (except corn, rice, and sorghum)
(Group 15), forage/sugar beet, molasses
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at 3.0 ppm; grain, cereal group (except
corn, rice, and sorghum), straw at 13.0
ppm; grain, cereal group (except corn,
rice, and sorghum)/corn, oil at 0.5 ppm;
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25.0 ppm; rice, bran and hulls at 28.0
ppm; rice, grain at 7.0 ppm; rice, straw
at 18.0 ppm; and aspirated grain fraction
at 17.0 ppm; and
5. PP 5F4498. Alfalfa, forage and hay
at 0.1 ppm.
Analytical method AG-454A was
developed for the determination of
residues of propiconazole and its
metabolites containing the
dichlorobenzoic acid (DCBA) moiety.
This method has been accepted and
published by EPA as the tolerance
enforcement method for crops. The limit
of quantitation (LOQ) for the method is
0.05 ppm.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection,
Agricultural commodities, Feed
additives, Food additives, Pesticides
and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: April 19, 2006
Lois Rossi,
Director, Registration Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E6–6616 Filed 5–2–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–S
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0336; FRL–8058–4]
Pesticide Product Registrations;
Conditional Approval
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces
Agency approval of applications
submitted by Suterra, LLC, to
conditionally register the pesticide
products Checkmate BAW Technical
Pheromone containing a new active
ingredient not included in any
previously registered products pursuant
to the provisions of section 3(c)(7)(C) of
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrew Bryceland, Biopesticides and
Pollution Prevention Division (7511C),
Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460–0001; telephone number:
(703) 305–6928; e-mail address:
bryceland.andrew@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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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. Potentially
affected entities may include, but are
not limited to:
• Crop production (NAICS code 111).
• Animal production (NAICS code
112).
• Food manufacturing (NAICS code
311).
• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS
code 32532).
This listing is not intended to be
exhaustive, but rather provides a guide
for readers regarding entities likely to be
affected by this action. Other types of
entities not listed in this unit could also
be affected. The North American
Industrial Classification System
(NAICS) codes have been provided to
assist you and others in determining
whether this action might apply to
certain entities. 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. i. EPA has established a
docket for this action under Docket
identification (ID) number EPA–HQ–
OPP–2006–0336. Publicly available
docket materials are available
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov.
ii. Important Note: OPP will be
moving to a new location the first week
of May 2006. As a result, from Friday,
April 28 to Friday, May 5, 2006, the
Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)
Regulatory Public Docket will NOT be
accepting any deliveries at the Crystal
Mall #2 address and this facility will be
closed to the public. Beginning on May
8, 2006, the OPP Regulatory Public
Docket will reopen at 8:30 a.m. and
deliveries will be accepted in Rm. S–
4400, One Potomac Yard (South
Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive,
Arlington, VA 22202. The mail code for
the mailing address will change to
(7502P), but will otherwise remain the
same. The OPP Regulatory Public
Docket telephone number ((703) 305–
5805) and hours of operation (8:30 a.m.
to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays) will remain
the same after the move.
In accordance with section 3(c)(2) of
FIFRA, a copy of the approved label, the
list of data references, the data and other
scientific information used to support
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