Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts; Notice of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily Cancel or to Amend to Terminate Uses of Certain Pesticide Registrations, 47581-47583 [E9-22298]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0321; FRL–8432–7]
Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts; Notice
of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily
Cancel or to Amend to Terminate Uses
of Certain Pesticide Registrations
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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 and/or
amend their registrations to terminate
uses of certain products containing the
pesticides sodium
dimethyldithiocarbamate and potassium
dimethyldithiocarbamate. The requests
would terminate
dimethyldithiocarbamate salts use in or
on pressure-treated wood preservatives,
sapstain, paints, coatings, and cutting
fluids, and prohibit ‘‘open pour’’
applications of one product. The
request(s) would not terminate the last
dimethyldithiocarbamate salts products
registered for use in the United States.
EPA intends to grant these requests 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 requests, or unless
the registrants withdraw their requests
within this period. Upon acceptance of
these requests, any sale, distribution, or
use of products listed in this notice will
be permitted only if such sale,
distribution, or use is consistent with
the terms as described in the final order.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before March 15, 2010. Written
requests to withdraw the cancellation
must be received on or before March 15,
2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0321, 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),
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• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public
Docket (7502P), Environmental
Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One
Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S.
Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket
Facility’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 Facility telephone number is
(703) 305–5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–
0321. 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 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
at https://www.regulations.gov. 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
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available in hard copy, at the OPP
Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S–
4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.),
2777 S. Crystal Dr., 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 Facility telephone
number is (703) 305–5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eliza Blair, Antimicrobials Division
(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460–0001; telephone number:
(703) 308–7279; e-mail address:
blair.eliza@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).
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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 and/or Amend
Registrations to Delete Uses
This notice announces receipt by EPA
of requests from registrants Buckman
Laboratories, Inc. and Akzo Nobel
Surface Chemistry LLC to cancel one
sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate use
and to amend to terminate uses of four
sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate and
potassium dimethyldithiocarbamate
product registrations.
Dimethyldithiocarbamate salts are used
as materials preservatives and water
antifoulants in a wide range of water
systems, including industrial cooling/air
washer water and oil recovery fluids. In
letters dated June 6, 2009 and June 1,
2009, respectively, Buckman and Akzo
Nobel requested that EPA cancel
affected product registrations and/or to
amend to terminate uses of pesticide
product registrations identified in
Tables 1 and 2. Specifically, a risk
assessment performed for the
Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts RED
identified human health and
environmental risks of concern for
several current uses, and suggested data
needs that EPA will request in order to
support the reregistration of
dimethyldithiocarbamate salts. The
registrants then identified specific uses
that they would not support through the
data-gathering process and submitted
letters of request to amend/or remove
the related product labels. The uses to
be canceled are all wood-preservative
uses, including pressure-treated wood
and sapstain, all paints and coatings
preservatives, and one registrant’s
metalworking fluids uses. One product
with only wood-preservative uses will
be canceled. One product label will be
amended to prohibit ‘‘open pour’’
application of the product, and restrict
application to ‘‘closed-system’’ methods
such as water-soluble packets. The
requests would not terminate the last
dimethyldithiocarbamate salts products
registered for use in the United States.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA
of requests from registrants to cancel
and/or amend to terminate uses of
sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate and
potassium dimethyldithiocarbamate
product registrations. The affected
products and the registrants making the
requests are identified in Tables 1–3 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.
The dimethyldithiocarbamate salts
registrants have not requested that EPA
waive the 180–day comment period.
EPA will provide a 180–day comment
period on the proposed requests.
Unless a 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 and/or
amending the affected registrations in
the following tables 1 and 2.
TABLE 1.—SODIUM DIMETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE PRODUCT REGISTRATION WITH PENDING REQUEST FOR CANCELLATION
Registration Number
34688–83
Product Name
Aquatreat DCD
Company
Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry LLC
TABLE 2.—DIMETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE SALTS PRODUCT REGISTRATIONS WITH PENDING REQUESTS FOR AMENDMENT
EPA Registration No.
Product Name
Active Ingredient
Delete from Label
Aquatreat SDM
Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate
Sapstain
34688–82
Aquatreat DNM-80
Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate
All ‘‘open pour’’ applications in water systems see Sec. II above
1448–70
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Busan 85
Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate
Paints, coatings and cutting fluids
1448–381
Dimet
Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate
Paints, coatings and cutting fluids
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Table 3 of this unit includes the
names and addresses of record for the
registrants of the products listed in
Table 1 and Table 2 of this unit.
ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–8957–4]
Notice of U.S. Environmental
TABLE 3.—REGISTRANTS REQUESTING Protection Agency Region III’s Use of
VOLUNTARY CANCELLATION AND/OR Web Site to Provide Notice of Intent To
Terminate Pesticide Producing
AMENDMENTS
Establishment Registrations
EPA Company
Number
34688 .................
1448 ...................
Company Name and
Address
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Information Notice.
Akzo Nobel Surface
Chemistry LLC
7140 Heritage Village
Plaza
Gainesville, VA 20136
Buckman Laboratories
Inc.
1256 North McLean
Blvd
Memphis, TN 38108
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 Sodium
Dimethyldithiocarbamate and
Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate
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 March 15, 2010. 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(s)
have been subject to a previous
cancellation action, the effective date of
cancellation and all other provisions of
any earlier cancellation action are
controlling.
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and pests.
Dated: August 28, 2009.
Betty Shackleford,
Acting Director, Antimicrobials Division,
Office of Pesticide Programs.
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SUMMARY: EPA Region III is announcing
that it will be using its Web site to
provide public notice of its intent to
terminate pesticide producing
establishment registrations under
section 7 of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
in cases where it is unable to provide
notice of its intent to terminate directly.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kyla
Townsend-McIntyre, Pesticides and
Asbestos Programs Branch (3LC62), EPA
Region III, 1650 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19103–2029;
telephone (215) 814–2045; fax (215)
814–3113; e-mail:
townsend.kyla@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 7
of FIFRA requires that all
establishments that produce pesticides,
active ingredients used in producing
pesticides, or devices subject to FIFRA
be registered with EPA, and that all
such establishments submit annual
pesticide production reports to EPA.
EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 167
establish requirements concerning these
annual pesticide production reports
including the types of information to be
included in annual pesticide production
reports (40 CFR 167.85). The regulations
require annual pesticide production
reports to be submitted to the EPA
Regional Office which serves the area
where the establishment is located (40
CFR 167.90). For establishments that are
not found at the same location as their
company headquarters, the regulations
require the annual pesticide production
reports to be submitted to the EPA
Regional Office that has jurisdiction
over the State in which the company
headquarters is located (40 CFR 167.90).
EPA’s Region III office serves
establishments or establishments with
company headquarters located in
Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, West Virginia and the District
of Columbia (40 CFR 1.7).
The regulations state that
establishment registrations are subject to
termination if annual pesticide
production reports are not submitted (40
CFR 167.20(f)). Upon deciding to
terminate an establishment registration
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based on the failure to submit annual
pesticide production reports, EPA
Region III generally sends a notice of
intent to terminate letter (NOIT) directly
to the establishment registrant via
certified mail with return receipt
requested, or by other reliable delivery
service that provides written
verification of delivery. If the
establishment registrant does not submit
the missing pesticide production
report(s) by the deadline set forth in the
NOIT, EPA Region III will issue it a
notice of termination letter (NOT).
NOITs are generally mailed to the
establishment registrant’s last address of
record. Occasionally, such notices are
returned as undeliverable and, despite
reasonable efforts to locate such
registrants, EPA Region III is unable to
directly notify them of its intent to
terminate their establishment
registrations. In the past, EPA used the
Federal Register to provide public
notice of its intent to terminate such
registrations. EPA Region III will now be
using its Web site to provide public
notice of its intent to terminate such
establishment registrations. The Web
site address is: https://www.epa.gov/
reg3wcmd/pesticides.htm.
EPA Region III will continue to first
attempt to provide NOITs directly to
establishment registrants at their last
address of record. In cases where such
notices are returned as undeliverable,
and when reasonable subsequent efforts
to locate such parties are unsuccessful,
EPA Region III will use its Web site to
provide public notice of its intent to
terminate such registrations. This notice
addresses establishments or
establishments with company
headquarters located in Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West
Virginia and the District of Columbia
only.
Dated: September 3, 2009.
Abraham Ferdas,
Director, Land and Chemicals Division,
Region III.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0321; FRL-8432-7]
Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts; Notice of Receipt of Requests to
Voluntarily Cancel or to Amend to Terminate Uses of 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 requests by the registrants to
voluntarily cancel and/or amend their registrations to terminate uses
of certain products containing the pesticides sodium
dimethyldithiocarbamate and potassium dimethyldithiocarbamate. The
requests would terminate dimethyldithiocarbamate salts use in or on
pressure-treated wood preservatives, sapstain, paints, coatings, and
cutting fluids, and prohibit ``open pour'' applications of one product.
The request(s) would not terminate the last dimethyldithiocarbamate
salts products registered for use in the United States. EPA intends to
grant these requests 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 requests, or
unless the registrants withdraw their requests within this period. Upon
acceptance of these requests, any sale, distribution, or use of
products listed in this notice will be permitted only if such sale,
distribution, or use is consistent with the terms as described in the
final order.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 15, 2010. Written
requests to withdraw the cancellation must be received on or before
March 15, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0321, 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
Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket Facility'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 Facility telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2009-0321. 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 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 at https://www.regulations.gov. 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 Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., 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 Facility telephone
number is (703) 305-5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eliza Blair, Antimicrobials Division
(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone
number: (703) 308-7279; e-mail address: blair.eliza@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).
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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 and/or Amend
Registrations to Delete Uses
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
Buckman Laboratories, Inc. and Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry LLC to
cancel one sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate use and to amend to terminate
uses of four sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate and potassium
dimethyldithiocarbamate product registrations. Dimethyldithiocarbamate
salts are used as materials preservatives and water antifoulants in a
wide range of water systems, including industrial cooling/air washer
water and oil recovery fluids. In letters dated June 6, 2009 and June
1, 2009, respectively, Buckman and Akzo Nobel requested that EPA cancel
affected product registrations and/or to amend to terminate uses of
pesticide product registrations identified in Tables 1 and 2.
Specifically, a risk assessment performed for the
Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts RED identified human health and
environmental risks of concern for several current uses, and suggested
data needs that EPA will request in order to support the reregistration
of dimethyldithiocarbamate salts. The registrants then identified
specific uses that they would not support through the data-gathering
process and submitted letters of request to amend/or remove the related
product labels. The uses to be canceled are all wood-preservative uses,
including pressure-treated wood and sapstain, all paints and coatings
preservatives, and one registrant's metalworking fluids uses. One
product with only wood-preservative uses will be canceled. One product
label will be amended to prohibit ``open pour'' application of the
product, and restrict application to ``closed-system'' methods such as
water-soluble packets. The requests would not terminate the last
dimethyldithiocarbamate salts products registered for use in the United
States.
III. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by EPA of requests from registrants
to cancel and/or amend to terminate uses of sodium
dimethyldithiocarbamate and potassium dimethyldithiocarbamate product
registrations. The affected products and the registrants making the
requests are identified in Tables 1-3 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.
The dimethyldithiocarbamate salts registrants have not requested
that EPA waive the 180-day comment period. EPA will provide a 180-day
comment period on the proposed requests.
Unless a 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 and/or amending the affected
registrations in the following tables 1 and 2.
Table 1.--Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate Product Registration with
Pending Request for Cancellation
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Registration Number Product Name Company
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34688-83 Aquatreat DCD Akzo Nobel Surface
Chemistry LLC
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Table 2.--Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts Product Registrations with Pending Requests for Amendment
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EPA Registration No. Product Name Active Ingredient Delete from Label
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34688-78 Aquatreat SDM Sodium Sapstain
Dimethyldithiocarbamat
e
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34688-82 Aquatreat DNM-80 Sodium All ``open pour''
Dimethyldithiocarbamat applications in water
e systems - see Sec. II
above
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1448-70 Busan 85 Potassium Paints, coatings and
Dimethyldithiocarbamat cutting fluids
e
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1448-381 Dimet Potassium Paints, coatings and
Dimethyldithiocarbamat cutting fluids
e
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Table 3 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for
the registrants of the products listed in Table 1 and Table 2 of this
unit.
Table 3.--Registrants Requesting Voluntary Cancellation and/or
Amendments
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EPA Company Number Company Name and Address
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34688..................................... Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry
LLC
7140 Heritage Village Plaza
Gainesville, VA 20136
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1448...................................... Buckman Laboratories Inc.
1256 North McLean Blvd
Memphis, TN 38108
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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 Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate and Potassium
Dimethyldithiocarbamate
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 March 15, 2010. 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(s) have been subject to a previous cancellation action,
the effective date of cancellation and all other provisions of any
earlier cancellation action are controlling.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: August 28, 2009.
Betty Shackleford,
Acting Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E9-22298 Filed 9-15-09; 8:45 a.m.]
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