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regulations for residues of pesticides in
or on food commodities. Further
information on the petition may be
obtained through the petition summary
referenced in this unit.
PP 9E7552. Interregional Research
Project Number 4 (IR-4), Rutgers
University, 500 College Rd. East, Suite
201W, Princeton, NJ 08540, on behalf of
OmniLytics, 5450 W. Wiley Post Way,
Salt Lake City, UT 84116, proposes to
establish an exemption from the
requirement of a tolerance for residues
of the microbial pesticide,
Bacteriophage of Clavibacter
michiganensis subsp. michiganensis, in
or on tomato. The petitioner believes no
analytical method is needed because
there is a long history of mammalian
consumption of phages in food without
causing any known deleterious human
health effects or any evidence of
toxicity. Phage-infected plants are part
of the human diet and there have been
no findings which indicate that phages
are able to replicate in mammals or
other verebrates, thereby eliminating the
possibility of human infection.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection,
Agricultural commodities, Feed
additives, Food additives, Pesticides
and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: September 9, 2009.
Keith Matthews,
Acting Director, Biopesticides and Pollution
Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
[FR Doc. E9–22807 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–S
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0625; FRL–8437–9]
Receipt of Application; Comment
Request
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AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: EPA is making available for
comment a registration application
submitted by Scimetrics Ltd. Corp.
requesting the addition of the blacktailed prairie dog and their host fleas for
the chemical combination of the
anticoagulant rodenticide, diphacinone
and the insecticide, imidacloprid.
Diphacinone and imidacloprid are
chemicals currently registered with the
Agency. In consideration of recent
public interest in pesticide products
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intended to control the black-tailed
prairie dog, EPA is providing public
notice of its receipt of this application
and an opportunity for the public to
comment on the application.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 23, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0625, 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–
0625. 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
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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: Dan
Peacock, Registration Division (7505P),
Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460–0001; telephone number:
(703) 305–5407; e-mail address:
peacock.dan@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
This action is directed to the public
in general. This action may, however, be
of interest to various environmental
groups, farmers, ranchers, state
regulatory partners, other interested
federal agencies, members of the public
interested in the sale, distribution, or
use of pesticides, and other pesticide
registrants and pesticide users. Since
other entities may also 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
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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.
3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to
achieve environmental justice, the fair
treatment and meaningful involvement
of any group, including minority and/or
low income populations, in the
development, implementation, and
enforcement of environmental laws,
regulations, and policies. To help
address potential environmental justice
issues, the Agency seeks information on
any groups or segments of the
population who, as a result of their
location, cultural practices, or other
factors, may have atypical or
disproportionately high and adverse
human health impacts or environmental
effects from exposure to the pesticides
discussed in this document, compared
to the general population.
II. What Action is the Agency Taking?
EPA is making available for comment
a registration application for a product
containing the chemical combination of
the anticoagulant rodenticide,
diphacinone and the insecticide,
imidacloprid, to control black-tailed
prairie dogs and their host fleas. EPA is
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providing this comment opportunity
because it believes that pesticide
products intended to control blacktailed prairie dogs have been the subject
of particular public interest in recent
years. Diphacinone is currently
registered for use against rodents,
including Norway rats, roof rats, house
mice, ground squirrels, and voles.
Imidacloprid is currently registered as
an insecticide to control host fleas on
the California ground squirrel. EPA will
evaluate all comments received during
the public comment period. The
application would, if accepted by EPA,
allow the use of diphacinone and
imidacloprid for the control of the
black-tailed prairie dogs and their host
fleas.
A copy of the application (with
information claimed by the applicant as
CBI redacted) is available for public
review in the docket established for this
new use application as described under
ADDRESSES.
Following the review of the
application, and any comments and data
received in response to this solicitation,
EPA will decide whether to issue or
deny the registration application, and if
issued, the conditions under which it is
to be granted.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Receipt of
application.
Dated: September 14, 2009.
Lois Rossi,
Director, Registration Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E9–22810 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0632; FRL–8434–6]
Registration Review; Pesticide
Dockets Opened for Review and
Comment
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: EPA has established
registration review dockets for the
pesticides listed in the table in Unit
III.A. With this document, EPA is
opening the public comment period for
these registration review cases.
Registration review is EPA’s periodic
review of pesticide registrations to
ensure that each pesticide continues to
satisfy the statutory standard for
registration, that is, the pesticide can
perform its intended function without
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unreasonable adverse effects on human
health or the environment. Registration
review dockets contain information that
will assist the public in understanding
the types of information and issues that
the Agency may consider during the
course of registration review. Through
this program, EPA is ensuring that each
pesticide’s registration is based on
current scientific and other knowledge,
including its effects on human health
and the environment.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or November 23, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
identified by the docket identification
(ID) number for the specific pesticide of
interest provided in the table in Unit
III.A., 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
the docket ID numbers listed in the table
in Unit III.A., for the pesticides you are
commenting on. 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
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0625; FRL-8437-9]
Receipt of Application; Comment Request
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EPA is making available for comment a registration application
submitted by Scimetrics Ltd. Corp. requesting the addition of the
black-tailed prairie dog and their host fleas for the chemical
combination of the anticoagulant rodenticide, diphacinone and the
insecticide, imidacloprid. Diphacinone and imidacloprid are chemicals
currently registered with the Agency. In consideration of recent public
interest in pesticide products intended to control the black-tailed
prairie dog, EPA is providing public notice of its receipt of this
application and an opportunity for the public to comment on the
application.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 23, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0625, 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-
2009-0625. 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: Dan Peacock, Registration Division
(7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone
number: (703) 305-5407; e-mail address: peacock.dan@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
This action is directed to the public in general. This action may,
however, be of interest to various environmental groups, farmers,
ranchers, state regulatory partners, other interested federal agencies,
members of the public interested in the sale, distribution, or use of
pesticides, and other pesticide registrants and pesticide users. Since
other entities may also 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
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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.
3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to achieve environmental
justice, the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of any group,
including minority and/or low income populations, in the development,
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and
policies. To help address potential environmental justice issues, the
Agency seeks information on any groups or segments of the population
who, as a result of their location, cultural practices, or other
factors, may have atypical or disproportionately high and adverse human
health impacts or environmental effects from exposure to the pesticides
discussed in this document, compared to the general population.
II. What Action is the Agency Taking?
EPA is making available for comment a registration application for
a product containing the chemical combination of the anticoagulant
rodenticide, diphacinone and the insecticide, imidacloprid, to control
black-tailed prairie dogs and their host fleas. EPA is providing this
comment opportunity because it believes that pesticide products
intended to control black-tailed prairie dogs have been the subject of
particular public interest in recent years. Diphacinone is currently
registered for use against rodents, including Norway rats, roof rats,
house mice, ground squirrels, and voles. Imidacloprid is currently
registered as an insecticide to control host fleas on the California
ground squirrel. EPA will evaluate all comments received during the
public comment period. The application would, if accepted by EPA, allow
the use of diphacinone and imidacloprid for the control of the black-
tailed prairie dogs and their host fleas.
A copy of the application (with information claimed by the
applicant as CBI redacted) is available for public review in the docket
established for this new use application as described under ADDRESSES.
Following the review of the application, and any comments and data
received in response to this solicitation, EPA will decide whether to
issue or deny the registration application, and if issued, the
conditions under which it is to be granted.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Receipt of application.
Dated: September 14, 2009.
Lois Rossi,
Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E9-22810 Filed 9-22-09; 8:45 am]
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