Product Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide Registrations, 59598-59599 [2017-27093]

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• ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 240 (Friday, December 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59598-59599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-27093]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0069; FRL-9969-98]


Product Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide Registrations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA's order for the cancellations, 
voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency, of 
the products listed in Table 1 of Unit II, pursuant to the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
    This cancellation order follows an April 10, 2017 Federal Register 
Notice of Receipt of Requests from the registrants listed in Table 2 of 
Unit II to voluntarily cancel these product registrations. In the April 
10, 2017 notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order 
implementing the cancellations, unless the Agency received substantive 
comments within the 180-day comment period that would merit its further 
review of these requests, or unless the registrants withdrew their 
requests. The Agency did not receive any comments on the notice. 
Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order 
granting the requested cancellations. Any distribution, sale, or use of 
the products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in 
accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks 
provisions.

DATES: The cancellations are effective December 15, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Green, Information 
Technology and Resources Management Division (7502P), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 347-0367; 
email address: [email protected].

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.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    The docket for this action, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0069, is available at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory 
Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public 
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPP 
Docket is (703) 305-5805. Please review the visitor instructions and 
additional information about the docket available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.

II. What action is the Agency taking?

    This notice announces the cancellations, as requested by 
registrants, of products registered under FIFRA section 3 (7 U.S.C. 
136a). These registrations are listed in sequence by registration 
number in Table 1 of this unit.

                                         Table 1--Product Cancellations
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     Registration No.         Company No.                    Product name                     Active ingredient
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42750-78..................           42750  Picloram Acid Technical.......................  Picloram.
42750-183.................           42750  Picloram Acid Technical.......................  Picloram.
66171-1...................           66171  Advantage 256.................................  2-Benzyl-4-
                                                                                             chlorophenol; 4-
                                                                                             tert-Amylphenol; &
                                                                                             o-Phenylphenol (NO
                                                                                             INERT USE).
66171-2...................           66171  Advantage 128.................................  2-Benzyl-4-
                                                                                             chlorophenol; 4-
                                                                                             tert-Amylphenol; &
                                                                                             o-Phenylphenol (NO
                                                                                             INERT USE).
OR-990007.................           62719  Kerb 50W Herbicide in WSP.....................  Propyzamide.
WA-060002.................           62719  Kerb 50-W.....................................  Propyzamide.
WA-960004.................             279  Fyfanon ULV AG................................  Malathion (NO INERT
                                                                                             USE).
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    Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for 
all registrants of the products in Table 1 of this unit, in sequence by 
EPA company number. This number corresponds to the first part of the 
EPA registration

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numbers of the products listed in Table 1 of this unit.

               Table 2--Registrants of Cancelled Products
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          EPA company No.                 Company name and address
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279...............................  FMC Corporation, 2929 Walnut Street,
                                     Philadelphia, PA 19104.
42750.............................  Albaugh, LLC, P.O. Box 2127,
                                     Valdosta, GA 31604-2127.
62719.............................  Dow AgroSciences, LLC, 9330
                                     Zionsville Rd., 308/2E,
                                     Indianapolis, IN 46268-1054.
66171.............................  Preserve International, 944 Nandino
                                     Blvd., Lexington, KY 40511.
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III. Summary of Public Comments Received and Agency Response to 
Comments

    During the public comment period provided, EPA received no comments 
in response to the Federal Register notice of April 10, 2017 (82 FR 
17258) (FRL-9959-67) announcing the Agency's receipt of the requests 
for voluntary cancellations of products listed in Table 1 of Unit II.

IV. Cancellation Order

    Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f) (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)), EPA hereby 
approves the requested cancellations of the registrations identified in 
Table 1 of Unit II. Accordingly, the Agency hereby orders that the 
product registrations identified in Table 1 of Unit II are canceled. 
The effective date of the cancellations that are the subject of this 
notice is December 15, 2017. Any distribution, sale, or use of existing 
stocks of the products identified in Table 1 of Unit II in a manner 
inconsistent with any of the provisions for disposition of existing 
stocks set forth in Unit VI will be a violation of FIFRA.

V. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?

    Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)) 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 EPA 
Administrator may approve such a request. The notice of receipt for 
this action was published for comment in the Federal Register of April 
10, 2017. The comment period closed on October 10, 2017.

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. The existing stocks provisions for the products 
subject to this order are as follows.
    The registrants may continue to sell and distribute existing stocks 
of products listed in Table 1 of Unit II until December 17, 2018, which 
is 1 year after the publication of the Cancellation Order in the 
Federal Register. Thereafter, the registrants are prohibited from 
selling or distributing products listed in Table 1, except for export 
in accordance with FIFRA section 17 (7 U.S.C. 1360), or proper 
disposal. Persons other than the registrants may sell, distribute, or 
use existing stocks of products listed in Table 1 of Unit II until 
existing stocks are exhausted, provided that such sale, distribution, 
or use is consistent with the terms of the previously approved labeling 
on, or that accompanied, the canceled products.

    Authority:  7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

    Dated: November 14, 2017.
Hamaad A. Syed,
Acting Director, Information Technology and Resources Management 
Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2017-27093 Filed 12-14-17; 8:45 am]
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