Notice of Receipt of a Request for an Amendment to Delete Acid Copper Chromate (ACC) Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations, 40717-40718 [E6-11342]

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[FR Doc. 06–6275 Filed 7–17–06; 8:45am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–M ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0606;FRL–8080–5] Notice of Receipt of a Request for an Amendment to Delete Acid Copper Chromate (ACC) Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. wwhite on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of request for amendments by registrants to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations. 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 amended to delete one or more uses. FIFRA further provides VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:25 Jul 17, 2006 Jkt 208001 that, before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any request in the Federal Register. DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 17, 2006. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0606, by one of the following methods: • Federal eRulemaking Portal. https:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments. • Mail. Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. • Delivery. OPP Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, 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) 3055805. Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-20060606. EPA’s policy is that all comments received will be included in the 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 regulations.gov or email. The Federal regulations.gov Web site 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 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 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 40717 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 either in the electronic docket at https:// www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in hard copy, at the OPP Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. The hours of operation of 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: Adam Heyward, Antimicrobials Division (7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: 703-308-6422; e-mail address: heyward.adam@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. General Information A. Does this Action Apply to Me? This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders including environmental, human health, and agricultural advocates; the chemical industry; pesticide users; and members of the public interested in the sale, distribution, or use of pesticides. Since others also may be interested, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be affected by this action. 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 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 E:\FR\FM\18JYN1.SGM 18JYN1 40718 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 137 / Tuesday, July 18, 2006 / Notices 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? This notice announces receipt by the Agency of an application from the registrant to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations. This registration is listed in Table 1 of this unit by registration number, product name, active ingredients, and specific uses deleted: TABLE 1.—REGISTRATION WITH REQUEST FOR AMENDMENT TO DELETE USES IN CERTAIN PESTICIDE REGISTRATIONS EPA Registration No. 3008-60 Product Name Active Ingredient ACC 50% Wood Preservative Users of these products who desire continued use on sites being deleted should contact the applicable registrant before August 17, 2006 to discuss withdrawal of the application for amendment. This 30–day period will also permit interested members of the public to intercede with registrants prior to the Agency’s approval of the deletion. Table 2 of this unit includes the name and address of record for the registrant of the product listed in Table 1 of this unit, by EPA company number. Copper Oxide Acid(35.46%) (14.07%)Chromic withdrawal in writing to the person named under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT using the methods in ADDRESSES. The Agency will consider written withdrawal requests postmarked no later than August 17, 2006. [EPA–HQ–OAR–2005–0172; FRL–8198–8] Draft Staff Paper for Ozone Availability of Documents Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of a draft for public review and comment. The following documents are available for review by the CASAC Ozone Panel in the form of printed copies and a CD–ROM containing these electronic files or by downloading the documents from the EPA Web site:https://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ standards/ozone/s_o3_cr_sp.html for the Staff Paper and https://www.epa.gov/ ttn/naaqs/standards/ozone/s_o3_ cr_td.html for the technical support documents and staff memos. V. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks The registrant is no longer manufacturing or distributing this product, and has requested no existing stocks provision. List of Subjects 3008 Company name and address Osmose, Inc.980 Ellicott St.Buffalo, NY 14209-2398 wwhite on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES III. 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 amended to delete one or more uses. The Act further provides that, before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any such request in the Federal Register. Thereafter, the Administrator may approve such a request. IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of Request Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for use deletion must submit the VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:25 Jul 17, 2006 Jkt 208001 All residential uses of Scientific and Technical Information (Draft Staff Paper) (Chapters 1–5 and 7– 8). Chapter 6 (Staff Conclusions on the Primary Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards) of the Draft Staff Paper will be made available on or about July 25, 2006. The purpose of the Staff Paper is to evaluate the policy implications of the key scientific and technical information contained in a related EPA document, Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants, required under sections 108 and 109 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for use in the periodic review of the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone. The OAQPS also will make available for public review and comment related draft technical support documents, Ozone Population Exposure Analysis for Selected Urban Areas (draft Exposure Analysis), Ozone Health Risk Assessment for Selected Urban Areas (draft Risk Assessment), and Technical Report on Ozone Exposure, Risk and Impact Assessments for Vegetation (draft Environmental Assessment). TABLE 2.—REGISTRANT REQUESTING Environmental protection, Pesticides AMENDMENT TO DELETE USES IN and pests, acid copper chromate, ACC. CERTAIN PESTICIDE REGISTRATIONS EPA company no. Delete from Label Dated: July 12, 2006. Frank Sanders, Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. [FR Doc. E6–11342 Filed 7–17–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AGENCY: SUMMARY: On or about July 18, 2006, the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) of EPA will make available for public review and comment a draft document, Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: Policy Assessment PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\18JYN1.SGM 18JYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40717-40718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11342]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0606;FRL-8080-5]


Notice of Receipt of a Request for an Amendment to Delete Acid 
Copper Chromate (ACC) Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a 
notice of receipt of request for amendments by registrants to delete 
uses in certain pesticide registrations. 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 amended to delete 
one or more uses. FIFRA further provides that, before acting on the 
request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any request in the 
Federal Register.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 17, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0606, by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal. https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail. Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public 
Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
     Delivery. OPP Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 
Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South 
Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, 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.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2006-0606. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the 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 regulations.gov or e-
mail. The Federal regulations.gov Web site 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 
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.
    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 either in the electronic docket at https://
www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in hard copy, at the OPP 
Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South 
Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. The hours of operation 
of 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: Adam Heyward, Antimicrobials Division 
(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone 
number: 703-308-6422; e-mail address: heyward.adam@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of 
interest to a wide range of stakeholders including environmental, human 
health, and agricultural advocates; the chemical industry; pesticide 
users; and members of the public interested in the sale, distribution, 
or use of pesticides. Since others also may be interested, the Agency 
has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be 
affected by this action. 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 
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

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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?

    This notice announces receipt by the Agency of an application from 
the registrant to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations. This 
registration is listed in Table 1 of this unit by registration number, 
product name, active ingredients, and specific uses deleted:

       Table 1.--Registration With Request for Amendment to Delete Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations
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         EPA Registration No.                Product Name          Active Ingredient        Delete from Label
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3008-60                                ACC 50% Wood             Copper Oxide             All residential uses
                                        Preservative             (14.07%)Chromic
                                                                 Acid(35.46%)
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    Users of these products who desire continued use on sites being 
deleted should contact the applicable registrant before August 17, 2006 
to discuss withdrawal of the application for amendment. This 30-day 
period will also permit interested members of the public to intercede 
with registrants prior to the Agency's approval of the deletion.
    Table 2 of this unit includes the name and address of record for 
the registrant of the product listed in Table 1 of this unit, by EPA 
company number.

   Table 2.--Registrant Requesting Amendment to Delete Uses in Certain
                         Pesticide Registrations
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              EPA company no.                 Company name and address
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3008                                        Osmose, Inc.980 Ellicott
                                             St.Buffalo, NY 14209-2398
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III. 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 amended to delete one or more uses. The Act further provides that, 
before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of 
any such request in the Federal Register. Thereafter, the Administrator 
may approve such a request.

IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of Request

    Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for use deletion must 
submit the withdrawal in writing to the person named under FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT using the methods in ADDRESSES. The Agency will 
consider written withdrawal requests postmarked no later than August 
17, 2006.

V. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks

    The registrant is no longer manufacturing or distributing this 
product, and has requested no existing stocks provision.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests, acid copper 
chromate, ACC.


    Dated: July 12, 2006.
Frank Sanders,
Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E6-11342 Filed 7-17-06; 8:45 am]
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