Environmental Protection Agency November 30, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that the following Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval: TSCA Section 5(a)(2) Significant New Use Rules for Existing Chemicals; EPA ICR No. 1188.08, OMB No. 2070-0038. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection, that is scheduled to expire on January 31, 2006. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the information collection activity and its expected burden and costs.

This notice announces EPA's receipt of test data on 1,1,2- Trichloroethane (1,1,2-TCE)(CAS No. 79-00-5). These data were submitted pursuant to an Enforceable Consent Agreement (ECA) and Testing Consent Order issued by EPA under section 4 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

The EPA is taking direct final action to approve a State Implementation Plan revision, submitted by the California Air Resources Board on November 8, 2004, that includes the 2004 Revision to the California State Implementation Plan for Carbon Monoxide, Updated Maintenance Plan for Ten Federal Planning Areas. This revision will provide a ten-year update to the carbon monoxide maintenance plan, as well as replace existing and establish new carbon monoxide motor vehicle emissions budgets for the purposes of determining transportation conformity, for the following ten areas: Bakersfield Metropolitan Area, Chico Urbanized Area, Fresno Urbanized Area, Lake Tahoe North Shore Area, Lake Tahoe South Shore Area, Modesto Urbanized Area, Sacramento Urbanized Area, San Diego Area, San Francisco-Oakland- San Jose Area, and Stockton Urbanized Area. EPA is taking this action pursuant to those provisions of the Clean Air Act that obligate the agency to take action on submittals of revisions to State implementation plans. The intended effect of this action is to fulfill the requirement under the Clean Air Act for a State to submit a subsequent maintenance plan that provides for continued maintenance of a National Ambient Air Quality Standard within former nonattainment areas within eight years of redesignation of those areas to attainment. In connection with the motor vehicle emissions budgets, we are denying a request by the California Air Resources Board for EPA to limit the duration of our approval of the budgets. Also, in this action, EPA is notifying the public that we have found that the carbon monoxide motor vehicle emissions budgets contained in the submitted maintenance plan are adequate for conformity purposes. As a result of this finding, the various metropolitan planning organizations in the ten planning areas and the U.S. Department of Transportation must use the CO motor vehicle emissions budgets from the submitted maintenance plan for future conformity determinations. Lastly, EPA is correcting certain errors made in our 1998 final rule approving California's redesignation request for these ten planning areas.

This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of the insect growth regulator buprofezin, 2-[(1,1- dimethylethyl)imino]tetrahydro-3(1-methylethyl)-5-phenyl-4H-1 ,3,5- thiadiazin-4-one in or on citrus, fruit; citrus, dried pulp; citrus, oil; and the amendment of regulations for residues in or on almond, hulls; cotton, gin byproducts, cotton, undelinted seed; and tomato.

This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of the fungicide mancozeb in or on almond nuts and hulls; broccoli, cabbage, lettuce and peppers; and imported mandarin oranges/mandarins.

This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of the herbicide flumiclorac pentyl ester in or on cotton, undelinted seed and gin byproducts.

This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of the fungicide prothioconazole and its desthio metabolite in or on barley, bran/grain/hay/pearled/straw; black mustard/borage/canola/ crambe/field mustard/flax/Indian mustard/Indian rapeseed/rapeseed, seed; flax, grain and aspirated fractions; peas and beans, dried shelled (except soybeans); peanut, nutmeat/hay/ meal; rice, grain/straw/hulls; and wheat, grain/bran/forage/germ/hay/straw; and for residues of prothioconazole, its desthio and 4-hydroxy metabolites, and conjugates of each in cattle, meat/meat byproducts/fat/milk.

This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide dodine, and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents are also available in the dodine docket. Dodine is a fungicide used primarily on fruits and nuts and is registered for control of a range of pathogenic fungi that affect a number of agricultural and some ornamental crops. There are no registered residential uses of dodine. The dodine RED addresses the tolerance reassessment for all the currently registered uses of dodine. EPA is reviewing dodine through the public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions. Through these programs, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards.