Environmental Protection Agency August 16, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In a letter dated May 31, 2006, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) requested withdrawal of their previously submitted State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision for oxygen flexible reformulated gasoline (OFRFG). EPA had proposed to approve this revision on February 2, 2004 (69 FR 4903), and received comments from five parties which outlined concerns. For reasons outlined below, New Hampshire has withdrawn this SIP revision request. Therefore, EPA is also withdrawing its proposed approval of the SIP revision.

This final rule, issued pursuant to section 8(d) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), requires manufacturers (including importers) of the chemicals listed in this document in the category of voluntary High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program orphan (unsponsored) chemicals to report certain unpublished health and safety data to EPA. The Interagency Testing Committee (ITC), established under section 4(e) of TSCA to recommend chemical substances and mixtures to EPA for priority testing consideration, amends the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List through periodic reports submitted to EPA. The ITC recently added voluntary HPV Challenge Program orphan (unsponsored) chemicals to the Priority Testing List in its 55th and 56th ITC Reports, as amended by deletions to this list made in its 56th and 58th ITC Reports. In addition, EPA is making technical corrections to update the EPA addresses to which submissions under the health and safety data reporting rule must be mailed or delivered. This update reflects the completion of the Agency's move to the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, DC.

This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of chitosan hydrolysate in or on various commodities.

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of one meeting (via conference call) of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

This notice announces the availability of EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Decision (TRED) for the pesticide streptomycin. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the streptomycin docket. Through the tolerance reassessment program, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and food safety standards.

This notice announces EPA's cancellation order for the termination of certain uses and label amendments, voluntarily requested by the registrant and accepted by the Agency, of products containing the pesticide chloroneb, pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation order follows an April 19, 2006 Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Request from the chloroneb registrant to voluntarily terminate certain uses of its chloroneb products and label amendments. The request would terminate chloroneb's use on residential lawns and turf, as well as on lawns and turf of parks and schools. In the April 19, 2006 Notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order to implement the termination of certain uses, unless the Agency received substantive comments within the 30 day comment period that would merit its further review of these requests, or unless the registrant withdrew their request within this period. The Agency did not receive any comments on the Notice. Further, the registrant did not withdraw their request. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order granting the request to terminate the use on residential lawns and turf, as well as on lawns and turf of parks and schools. Any distribution, sale, or use of the chloroneb products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions.

This regulation establishes a tolerance for combined residues of endothall and its monomethyl ester in or on fish. Cerexagri, Inc. requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).

This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of quinclorac in or on barley commodities.