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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 https://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 Tolerance
PP 5F6953. Gowan Company, 370
South Main Street, Yuma, AZ 85364,
proposes to establish a regional
tolerance for residues of the insecticide
hexythiazox (trans–5–(4–chlorophenyl)N-cyclohexyl–4–methyl–2–
oxothiazolidine–3–carboxamide) and its
metabolites containing the (4–
chlorophenyl)–4–methyl–2–oxo–3–
thiazolidine moiety in or on food
commodities corn, field, grain at 0.05
parts per million (ppm); corn, field,
forage at 2.0 ppm; and corn, field, stover
at 2.0 ppm. A practical analytical
method, high pressure liquid
chromatography with an ultraviolet
detector, which detects and measures
residues of hexythiazox and its
metabolites as a common moiety, is
available for enforcement purposes with
a limit of detection that allows
monitoring of food with residues at or
above the levels set in these tolerances.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection,
Agricultural commodities, Feed
additives, Food additives, Pesticides
and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: February 15, 2006.
Rachel C. Holloman,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office
of Pesticide Programs.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0073; FRL–7763–1]
Notice of Filing of a Pesticide Petition
for the Establishment of a Regulation
for the Residues of Sodium Salt of
Fomesafen in or on Dry and Snap
Beans, and Cotton Seed and Gin
Byproducts
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
initial filing of a pesticide petition
proposing the establishment of a
regulation for residues of the herbicide
sodium salt of fomesafen , 5–[2–chloro–
4–(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]-N(methylsulfonyl)–2–nitrobenzamide] in
or on dry beans, snap beans, and cotton
seed and gin byproducts food
commodities.
Comments must be received on
or before March 31, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0073 and
pesticide petition numbers (PP) 1E6228,
6E4653, and 9F5068, by one of the
following methods:
• https://www.regulations.gov/. Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Public Information and
Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB)
(7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460–0001.
• Hand Delivery: Public Information
and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB)
(7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP), Environmental Protection
Agency, Rm. 119, Crystal Mall #2, 1801
S. Bell St., Arlington, VA, Attention:
Docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–
0073. The docket facility is open from
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the docket facility
is (703) 305–5805. Such deliveries are
only accepted during the Docket’s
normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–
0073. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change and may be
made available on-line at https://
www.regulations.gov/, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
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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 www.regulations.gov
or e-mail. The www.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 www.regulations.gov,
your e-mail address will be captured
automatically and included as part of
the comment that is placed in the public
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 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 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. For additional information
about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at https://
www.epa.gov/epahome/docket.htm/.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the www.regulation.gov
index. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, i.e., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the Public Information and Records
Integrity Branch (PIRIB) (7502C), Office
of Pesticide Programs (OPP),
Environmental Protection Agency, Rm.
119, Crystal Mall #2, 1801 S. Bell St.,
Arlington, VA. The docket facility is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
docket facility is (703) 305–5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Barbara Madden, Registration Division,
(7505C), Office of Pesticide Programs, U.
S. Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460–0001; (703) 305–
6463; e-mail: madden.barbara@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
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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. What Should I Consider as I Prepare
My Comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this
information to EPA through
www.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:
• Identify the document by docket ID
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date and page number).
• 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.
• Explain why you agree or disagree;
suggest alternatives and substitute
language for your requested changes.
• Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information and/
or data that you used.
• If you estimate potential costs or
burdens, explain how you arrived at
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your estimate in sufficient detail to
allow for it to be reproduced.
• Provide specific examples to
illustrate your concerns, and suggest
alternatives.
• Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
or personal threats.
• 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 a
pesticide petition received under
section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C.
346a, proposing the establishment or
amendment 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 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 https://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 Tolerance
PPs 1E6228, 6E4653, and 9F5068.
Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR–
4), 681 U. S. Highway No. 1 South,
North Brunswick, NJ 08902–3390; and
Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., P.O. Box
18300, Greensboro, NC 27410, proposes
to establish tolerances for residues of
the herbicide sodium salt of fomesafen,
5–[2–chloro–4–
(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]-N(methylsulfonyl)–2–nitrobenzamide] in
or on food commodities dry beans (PP
1E6228), snap beans (PP 6E4653), cotton
seed and cotton gin byproducts
(9F5068) at 0.025 parts per million
(ppm). An analytical method using
chemical derivatization followed by gas
chromatography (GC) with NitrogenPhosphorus detection (NPD) has been
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developed and validated for residues of
fomesafen in snap/dry beans, cotton
seed and cotton gin byproducts, as well
as for other crops. After
homogenization, the samples are
extracted with acidified acetonitrile.
After addition of water and additional
acid, the extract was submitted to
liquid/liquid partition. The residue is
transferred to dichloromethane followed
by acetone and derivatized with
iodomethane in the presence of
anhydrous potassium carbonate. A silica
gel column cleanup is done with
dichloromethane:hexane as the eluent.
The final extract is transferred to
toluene and analyzed by GC/NPD. The
limit of quantitation is 0.025 ppm.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection,
Agricultural commodities, Feed
additives, Food additives, Pesticides
and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: February 17, 2006.
Donald R. Stubbs,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office
of Pesticide Programs.
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AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2005–0533; FRL–7763–2]
Notice of Filing of a Pesticide Petition
for the Establishment of a Regulation
for the Residues of Bentazon and Its
Metabolites in or on Peaches and
Nectarines
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
initial filing of a pesticide petition
proposing the establishment of a
regulation for residues of the herbicide
bentazon (3-isopropyl-1H-2,1,3benzothiadiazin-4(3H)-one-2,2-dioxide)
and its 6- and 8-hydroxy metabolites in
or on peaches and nectarines.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before March 31, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPP–2005–0533 and
pesticide petition number (PP) 2E6501,
by one of the following methods:
• https://www.regulations.gov/. Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Public Information and
Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB)
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0073; FRL-7763-1]
Notice of Filing of a Pesticide Petition for the Establishment of
a Regulation for the Residues of Sodium Salt of Fomesafen in or on Dry
and Snap Beans, and Cotton Seed and Gin Byproducts
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide
petition proposing the establishment of a regulation for residues of
the herbicide sodium salt of fomesafen , 5-[2-chloro-4-
(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]-N-(methylsulfonyl)-2-nitrobenzamide] in or on
dry beans, snap beans, and cotton seed and gin byproducts food
commodities.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 31, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0073 and pesticide petition numbers (PP)
1E6228, 6E4653, and 9F5068, by one of the following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov/. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Public Information and Records Integrity Branch
(PIRIB) (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001.
Hand Delivery: Public Information and Records Integrity
Branch (PIRIB) (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP),
Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 2, 1801
S. Bell St., Arlington, VA, Attention: Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2006-0073. The docket facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the
docket facility is (703) 305-5805. Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2006-0073. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available on-line
at https://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 www.regulations.gov
or e-mail. The www.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
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be captured automatically
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public 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 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 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. For additional information about EPA's public docket, visit
the EPA Docket Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov/epahome/
docket.htm/.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulation.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Public Information and
Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB) (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP), Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. 119, Crystal Mall
2, 1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA. The docket facility is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the docket facility is (703) 305-
5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Madden, Registration Division,
(7505C), Office of Pesticide Programs, U. S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; (703)
305-6463; e-mail: madden.barbara@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
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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. What Should I Consider as I Prepare My Comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through
www.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:
Identify the document by docket ID number and other
identifying information (subject heading, Federal Register date and
page number).
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.
Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives
and substitute language for your requested changes.
Describe any assumptions and provide any technical
information and/or data that you used.
If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how
you arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and
suggest alternatives.
Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the
use of profanity or personal threats.
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 a pesticide petition received under
section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21
U.S.C. 346a, proposing the establishment or amendment 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 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
https://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 Tolerance
PPs 1E6228, 6E4653, and 9F5068. Interregional Research Project No.
4 (IR-4), 681 U. S. Highway No. 1 South, North Brunswick, NJ 08902-
3390; and Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro,
NC 27410, proposes to establish tolerances for residues of the
herbicide sodium salt of fomesafen, 5-[2-chloro-4-
(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]-N-(methylsulfonyl)-2-nitrobenzamide] in or on
food commodities dry beans (PP 1E6228), snap beans (PP 6E4653), cotton
seed and cotton gin byproducts (9F5068) at 0.025 parts per million
(ppm). An analytical method using chemical derivatization followed by
gas chromatography (GC) with Nitrogen-Phosphorus detection (NPD) has
been developed and validated for residues of fomesafen in snap/dry
beans, cotton seed and cotton gin byproducts, as well as for other
crops. After homogenization, the samples are extracted with acidified
acetonitrile. After addition of water and additional acid, the extract
was submitted to liquid/liquid partition. The residue is transferred to
dichloromethane followed by acetone and derivatized with iodomethane in
the presence of anhydrous potassium carbonate. A silica gel column
cleanup is done with dichloromethane:hexane as the eluent. The final
extract is transferred to toluene and analyzed by GC/NPD. The limit of
quantitation is 0.025 ppm.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Agricultural commodities, Feed additives,
Food additives, Pesticides and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: February 17, 2006.
Donald R. Stubbs,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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