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registration reviews of these pesticides.
The Agency identifies in each docket
the areas where public comment is
specifically requested, though comment
in any area is welcome.
2. Other related information. More
information on these cases, including
the active ingredients for each case, may
be located in the registration review
schedule on the Agency’s website at
https://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/
registration_review/schedule.htm.
Information on the Agency’s registration
review program and its implementing
regulation may be seen at https://www.
epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review.
3. Information submission
requirements. Anyone may submit data
or information in response to this
document. To be considered during a
pesticide’s registration review, the
submitted data or information must
meet the following requirements:
• To ensure that EPA will consider
data or information submitted,
interested persons must submit the data
or information during the comment
period. The Agency may, at its
discretion, consider data or information
submitted at a later date.
• The data or information submitted
must be presented in a legible and
useable form. For example, an English
translation must accompany any
material that is not in English and a
written transcript must accompany any
information submitted as an
audiographic or videographic record.
Written material may be submitted in
paper or electronic form.
• Submitters must clearly identify the
source of any submitted data or
information.
• Submitters may request the Agency
to reconsider data or information that
the Agency rejected in a previous
review. However, submitters must
explain why they believe the Agency
should reconsider the data or
information in the pesticide’s
registration review.
• As provided in 40 CFR 155.58, the
registration review docket for each
pesticide case will remain publicly
accessible through the duration of the
registration review process; that is, until
all actions required in the final decision
on the registration review case have
been completed.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides
and pests.
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Dated: December 12, 2008.
Janet L. Andersen,
Director, Biopesticides and Pollution
Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
[FR Doc. E8–30497 Filed 12–23–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–S
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0955; FRL–8394–5]
Rodenticides; Notice of Receipt of
Request to Voluntarily Cancel 22
Rodenticide Registrations
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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 requests by the
registrants to voluntarily cancel the
registrations of 22 rodenticide products
containing the active ingredients
bromadiolone, bromethalin,
cholecalciferol, difenacoum,
diphacinone (and its sodium salt),
warfarin (and its sodium salt), and zinc
phosphide. The request would
terminate the 22 rodenticide products
listed in Table 1. EPA intends to grant
these requests with an effective date of
June 4, 2011 at the close of the comment
period for this announcement unless the
Agency receives substantive comments
within the comment period that would
merit its further review of the request or
unless a registrant withdraws its request
within this period. If EPA grants the
cancellation requests as anticipated, any
sale or distribution of products listed in
this notice after June 4, 2011 will be
permitted only if such sale or
distribution, is consistent with the terms
as described in the final order.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before June 22, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPP–2006–0955, 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.
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Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. Deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket’s
normal hours of operation (8:30 a.m. to
4:00 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–
0955. 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
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 email 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 available
in regulations.gov. To access the
electronic docket, go to https://
www.regulations.gov, select ‘‘Advanced
Search,’’ then ‘‘Docket Search.’’ Insert
the docket ID number where indicated
and select the ‘‘Submit’’ button. Follow
the instructions on the regulations.gov
web site to view the docket index or
access available documents. 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
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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 4:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The Docket telephone number
is (703) 305-5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rusty Wasem, Special Review and
Reregistration Division (7508P), Office
of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–
0001; telephone number: (703) 305–
6979; fax number: (703) 308–7070; email address: wasem.russell@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
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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
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.
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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. Background on the Receipt of
Requests to Cancel Registrations
This notice announces receipt by EPA
of written requests from ADM Alliance
Nutrition Inc., Bacon Products Company
Inc., Bell Laboratories Inc., Kittrich
Corporation, Motomco Limited,
Scimetrics Limited Corporation, Value
Gardens Supply LLC, and Woodstream
Corporation, registrants of rodenticide
products, to cancel the product
registrations listed in Table 1.
Diphacinone (and its sodium salts), and
warfarin (and its sodium salts) are first
generation anticoagulant rodenticides.
Bromadiolone and difenacoum are
second generation anticoagulant
rodenticides. Bromethalin,
cholecalciferol and zinc phosphide are
non-anticoagulant rodenticides. These
requests will result in the termination of
the listed rodenticide products
registered in the United States. The
received cancellation requests do not
represent the termination of all
rodenticide products containing the
active ingredients diphacinone,
warfarin, bromadiolone, difenacoum,
bromethalin, cholecalciferol, and zinc
phosphide. Many of the rodenticide
registrants requesting product
cancellations as well as other
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rodenticide registrants not requesting
product cancellations have informed the
Agency they intend to submit amended
labels for rodenticide products
incorporating all of the risk mitigation
measures required by the Risk
Mitigation Decision for Ten
Rodenticides of 2008.
Unless comments are received to the
contrary, the Agency intends to make
the cancellation effective June 4, 2011,
and to allow the requesting registrants
to continue to produce, sell and
distribute these rodenticide products
through the cancellation date of June 4,
2011. EPA intends to allow persons
other than the registrant to distribute,
sell and use existing stocks of the
cancelled products after June 4, 2011
until depleted.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA
of requests from registrants to cancel
specific rodenticide products
registrations. The affected products and
the registrants making the request are
identified in Table 1 and Table 2 of this
unit.
Under section 6(f)(1)(A) of FIFRA,
registrants may request, at any time, that
their pesticide registrations be canceled
or amended to terminate one or more
pesticide uses. Section 6(f)(1)(B) of
FIFRA requires that before acting on a
request for voluntary cancellation, EPA
must provide a 30–day public comment
period on the request for voluntary
cancellation or use termination. In
addition, section 6(f)(1)(C) of FIFRA
requires that EPA provide a 180–day
comment period on a request for
voluntary cancellation or termination of
any minor agricultural use before
granting the request, unless:
1. The registrants request a waiver of
the comment period, or
2. The Administrator determines that
continued use of the pesticide would
pose an unreasonable adverse effect on
the environment.
EPA will provide a 180–day comment
period on the proposed cancellation
requests.
Unless the request is withdrawn by
the registrant within 180 days of
publication of this notice, or if the
Agency determines that there are
substantive comments that warrant
further review of this request, an order
will be issued canceling the affected
registrations
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TABLE 1—RODENTICIDE PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR CANCELLATION
Registration No.
Name
Company Name
Cholecalciferol (PC Code 202901)
3240-28
Rampage Mouse Seed
Motomco Ltd.
3240-42
Rampage Rat & Mouse Bait
Motomco Ltd.
12455-57
Quintox Mouse Seed
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
Bromadiolone (PC Code 112001)
12455-68
Contrac Mouse Bait Station
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
12455-103
Contrac Bait Trays
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
12455-104
Contract Mouse Control Kit
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
Bromethalin (PC Code 112802)
12455-100
Fastrac Mouse Seed PLACE PAC
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
47629-10
Bromethalin Manufacturing Concentrate
Woodstream Corp.
Diphacinone (PC Code 067701)
3487-26
Eagles-14 Diphacinone Rat Bait
Bacon Products Company, Inc.
11885-12
Master Mix Blue Death-D Rat & Mouse Bait
Adm Alliance Nutrition, Inc.
11885-15
Master Mix Blue Death-D Rat & Mouse Bait Hide-APack
ADM Alliance Nutrition, Inc.
12455-67
Ditrac Mouse Bait Station
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
Diphacinone, sodium salt (PC Code 067705)
3240-17
Motomco Water Soluble Diphacinone Rodenticide
Concentrate Ki
Motomco Ltd.
Warfarin (PC Code 086002)
3487-19
Eagles-7 Rat Bait
Bacon Products Company, Inc.
5887-51
Black Leaf Warf Pellets
Value Gardens Supply, LLC
5887-98
Black Leaf Warf Pellets Mouse Killer
Value Gardens Supply, LLC
12455-15
Warfarin Rat and Mouse Bait
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
62577-7
Echols Mouse & Rat Pellets
Kittrich Corp.
72500-7
Kaput Mouse Blocks
Scimetrics, Ltd. Corp.
Warfarin, sodium salt (PC Code 086003)
12455-22
Liqua-Tox Liquid Concentrate
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
Zinc phosphide (PC Code 088601)
ZP Rodent Bait Place Pac
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
12455-85
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Mole and Gopher Bait
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
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Table 2 of this unit includes the name
and address of record for the registrants
of the products listed in Table 1.
TABLE 2—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING
VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION
EPA Company No.
3240
Company
name and address
Motomco Ltd.
3699 Kinsman
Blvd.
Madison, WI
53704
12455
Bell Laboratories
3699 Kinsman
Blvd.
Madison, WI
53704
47629
Woodstream
Corp.
69 N. Locust
St.
PO Box 324
Lititz, PA
17543
3487
Bacon Products Corp.
PO Box 22187
Chattanooga,
TN 37422
ADM Alliance
Nutrition,
Inc.
PO Box C1
Quincy, IL
62305
5887
Value Gardens
Supply LLC
9100 W.
Bloomington
Fwy.
Ste. 113
Bloomington,
MN 55431
62577
Kittrich Corp.
4940 Top Line
Dr.
Dallas, TX
75247
72500
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Scimetrics Ltd.
Corp.
C/O Regwest
Co. LLC
30856 Rocky
Rd.
Greeley, CO
80631
IV. 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
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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.
Dated: December 15, 2008.
Steven Bradbury,
Director, Special Review and Reregistration
Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E8–30495 Filed 12–23–08; 8:45 am]
V. Procedures for Withdrawal of
Request and Considerations for
Reregistration of Rodenticides
Notice of Agreements Filed
Registrants who choose to withdraw a
request for cancellation must submit
such withdrawal in writing to the
person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT, postmarked
before June 22, 2009. This written
withdrawal of the request for
cancellation will apply only to the
applicable FIFRA section 6(f)(1) request
listed in this notice. If the products have
been subject to a previous cancellation
action, the effective date of cancellation
and all other provisions of any earlier
cancellation action are controlling.
VI. Provisions for Disposition of
Existing Stocks
Existing stocks are those stocks of
registered pesticide products which are
currently in the United States and
which were packaged, labeled, and
released for shipment prior to the
effective date of the cancellation action.
If the request for voluntary
cancellation is granted as discussed
above, the Agency intends to issue a
cancellation order that will allow
persons other than the registrant to
continue to sell and/or use existing
stocks of cancelled products until such
stocks are exhausted, provided that such
use is consistent with the terms of the
previously approved labeling on, or that
accompanied, the cancelled product.
The order will specifically prohibit any
use of existing stocks that is not
consistent with such previously
approved labeling. If, as the Agency
currently intends, the final cancellation
order contains the existing stocks
provision just described, the order will
be sent only to the affected registrants
of the cancelled products. If the Agency
determines that the final cancellation
order should contain existing stocks
provisions different than the ones just
described, the Agency will publish the
cancellation order in the Federal
Register.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides
and pests.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0955; FRL-8394-5]
Rodenticides; Notice of Receipt of Request to Voluntarily Cancel
22 Rodenticide 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 requests by the registrants to voluntarily cancel
the registrations of 22 rodenticide products containing the active
ingredients bromadiolone, bromethalin, cholecalciferol, difenacoum,
diphacinone (and its sodium salt), warfarin (and its sodium salt), and
zinc phosphide. The request would terminate the 22 rodenticide products
listed in Table 1. EPA intends to grant these requests with an
effective date of June 4, 2011 at the close of the comment period for
this announcement unless the Agency receives substantive comments
within the comment period that would merit its further review of the
request or unless a registrant withdraws its request within this
period. If EPA grants the cancellation requests as anticipated, any
sale or distribution of products listed in this notice after June 4,
2011 will be permitted only if such sale or distribution, is consistent
with the terms as described in the final order.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 22, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0955, 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
4:00 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-
2006-0955. 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 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
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
available in regulations.gov. To access the electronic docket, go to
https://www.regulations.gov, select ``Advanced Search,'' then ``Docket
Search.'' Insert the docket ID number where indicated and select the
``Submit'' button. Follow the instructions on the regulations.gov web
site to view the docket index or access available documents. 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
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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
4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The Docket
telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rusty Wasem, Special Review and
Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6979; fax
number: (703) 308-7070; e-mail address: wasem.russell@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 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. Background on the Receipt of Requests to Cancel Registrations
This notice announces receipt by EPA of written requests from ADM
Alliance Nutrition Inc., Bacon Products Company Inc., Bell Laboratories
Inc., Kittrich Corporation, Motomco Limited, Scimetrics Limited
Corporation, Value Gardens Supply LLC, and Woodstream Corporation,
registrants of rodenticide products, to cancel the product
registrations listed in Table 1. Diphacinone (and its sodium salts),
and warfarin (and its sodium salts) are first generation anticoagulant
rodenticides. Bromadiolone and difenacoum are second generation
anticoagulant rodenticides. Bromethalin, cholecalciferol and zinc
phosphide are non-anticoagulant rodenticides. These requests will
result in the termination of the listed rodenticide products registered
in the United States. The received cancellation requests do not
represent the termination of all rodenticide products containing the
active ingredients diphacinone, warfarin, bromadiolone, difenacoum,
bromethalin, cholecalciferol, and zinc phosphide. Many of the
rodenticide registrants requesting product cancellations as well as
other rodenticide registrants not requesting product cancellations have
informed the Agency they intend to submit amended labels for
rodenticide products incorporating all of the risk mitigation measures
required by the Risk Mitigation Decision for Ten Rodenticides of 2008.
Unless comments are received to the contrary, the Agency intends to
make the cancellation effective June 4, 2011, and to allow the
requesting registrants to continue to produce, sell and distribute
these rodenticide products through the cancellation date of June 4,
2011. EPA intends to allow persons other than the registrant to
distribute, sell and use existing stocks of the cancelled products
after June 4, 2011 until depleted.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel specific rodenticide products registrations. The affected
products and the registrants making the request are identified in Table
1 and Table 2 of this unit.
Under section 6(f)(1)(A) of FIFRA, registrants may request, at any
time, that their pesticide registrations be canceled or amended to
terminate one or more pesticide uses. Section 6(f)(1)(B) of FIFRA
requires that before acting on a request for voluntary cancellation,
EPA must provide a 30-day public comment period on the request for
voluntary cancellation or use termination. In addition, section
6(f)(1)(C) of FIFRA requires that EPA provide a 180-day comment period
on a request for voluntary cancellation or termination of any minor
agricultural use before granting the request, unless:
1. The registrants request a waiver of the comment period, or
2. The Administrator determines that continued use of the pesticide
would pose an unreasonable adverse effect on the environment.
EPA will provide a 180-day comment period on the proposed
cancellation requests.
Unless the request is withdrawn by the registrant within 180 days
of publication of this notice, or if the Agency determines that there
are substantive comments that warrant further review of this request,
an order will be issued canceling the affected registrations
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Table 1--Rodenticide Product Registrations with Pending Requests for
Cancellation
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Registration No. Name Company Name
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Cholecalciferol (PC Code 202901)
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3240-28 Rampage Mouse Seed Motomco Ltd.
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3240-42 Rampage Rat & Motomco Ltd.
Mouse Bait
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-57 Quintox Mouse Seed Bell Laboratories,
Inc.
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Bromadiolone (PC Code 112001)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-68 Contrac Mouse Bait Bell Laboratories,
Station Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-103 Contrac Bait Trays Bell Laboratories,
Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-104 Contract Mouse Bell Laboratories,
Control Kit Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bromethalin (PC Code 112802)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-100 Fastrac Mouse Seed Bell Laboratories,
PLACE PAC Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
47629-10 Bromethalin Woodstream Corp.
Manufacturing
Concentrate
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Diphacinone (PC Code 067701)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
3487-26 Eagles-14 Bacon Products
Diphacinone Rat Company, Inc.
Bait
------------------------------------------------------------------------
11885-12 Master Mix Blue Adm Alliance
Death-D Rat & Nutrition, Inc.
Mouse Bait
------------------------------------------------------------------------
11885-15 Master Mix Blue ADM Alliance
Death-D Rat & Nutrition, Inc.
Mouse Bait Hide-A-
Pack
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-67 Ditrac Mouse Bait Bell Laboratories,
Station Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Diphacinone, sodium salt (PC Code 067705)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
3240-17 Motomco Water Motomco Ltd.
Soluble
Diphacinone
Rodenticide
Concentrate Ki
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Warfarin (PC Code 086002)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
3487-19 Eagles-7 Rat Bait Bacon Products
Company, Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5887-51 Black Leaf Warf Value Gardens
Pellets Supply, LLC
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5887-98 Black Leaf Warf Value Gardens
Pellets Mouse Supply, LLC
Killer
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-15 Warfarin Rat and Bell Laboratories,
Mouse Bait Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
62577-7 Echols Mouse & Rat Kittrich Corp.
Pellets
------------------------------------------------------------------------
72500-7 Kaput Mouse Blocks Scimetrics, Ltd.
Corp.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Warfarin, sodium salt (PC Code 086003)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-22 Liqua-Tox Liquid Bell Laboratories,
Concentrate Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zinc phosphide (PC Code 088601)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-59 ZP Rodent Bait Bell Laboratories,
Place Pac Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
12455-85 Mole and Gopher Bell Laboratories,
Bait Inc.
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Table 2 of this unit includes the name and address of record for
the registrants of the products listed in Table 1.
Table 2--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation
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EPA Company No. Company name and address
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3240 Motomco Ltd.
3699 Kinsman Blvd.
Madison, WI 53704
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12455 Bell Laboratories
3699 Kinsman Blvd.
Madison, WI 53704
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47629 Woodstream Corp.
69 N. Locust St.
PO Box 324
Lititz, PA 17543
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3487 Bacon Products Corp.
PO Box 22187
Chattanooga, TN 37422
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11185 ADM Alliance Nutrition, Inc.
PO Box C1
Quincy, IL 62305
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5887 Value Gardens Supply LLC
9100 W. Bloomington Fwy.
Ste. 113
Bloomington, MN 55431
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62577 Kittrich Corp.
4940 Top Line Dr.
Dallas, TX 75247
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72500 Scimetrics Ltd. Corp.
C/O Regwest Co. LLC
30856 Rocky Rd.
Greeley, CO 80631
------------------------------------------------------------------------
IV. 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.
V. Procedures for Withdrawal of Request and Considerations for
Reregistration of Rodenticides
Registrants who choose to withdraw a request for cancellation must
submit such withdrawal in writing to the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, postmarked before June 22, 2009. This
written withdrawal of the request for cancellation will apply only to
the applicable FIFRA section 6(f)(1) request listed in this notice. If
the products have been subject to a previous cancellation action, the
effective date of cancellation and all other provisions of any earlier
cancellation action are controlling.
VI. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks
Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products
which are currently in the United States and which were packaged,
labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the
cancellation action.
If the request for voluntary cancellation is granted as discussed
above, the Agency intends to issue a cancellation order that will allow
persons other than the registrant to continue to sell and/or use
existing stocks of cancelled products until such stocks are exhausted,
provided that such use is consistent with the terms of the previously
approved labeling on, or that accompanied, the cancelled product. The
order will specifically prohibit any use of existing stocks that is not
consistent with such previously approved labeling. If, as the Agency
currently intends, the final cancellation order contains the existing
stocks provision just described, the order will be sent only to the
affected registrants of the cancelled products. If the Agency
determines that the final cancellation order should contain existing
stocks provisions different than the ones just described, the Agency
will publish the cancellation order in the Federal Register.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: December 15, 2008.
Steven Bradbury,
Director, Special Review and Reregistration Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E8-30495 Filed 12-23-08; 8:45 am]
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