Environmental Protection Agency September 16, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

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.

This notice announces EPA's decision to amend the 2003 and 2005 Reregistration Eligibility Decisions (RED) documents for the antimicrobial pesticides Ziram and Ferbam (Reregistration Case 2180). EPA conducted a reassessment of the Ziram and Ferbam REDs upon learning that the salts Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate and Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate were not evaluated at the same time as the rest of case 2180. The Agency has conducted a risk assessment and issued a RED addendum for the Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts, which were inadvertently not included in the 2003 and 2005 Reregistration Eligibility Decision documents for Ziram and Ferbam. This notice opens an additional 60-day public comment period for Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts because a previous comment period for the Risk Assessment portion of this addendum was restricted to registrants only.

EPA has authorized contractor, Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) of Columbus, OH and its subcontractors, Avanti Corporation of Alexandria, VA and Pegasus Technical Services, Inc. of Cincinnati, OH, to access information which has been submitted to EPA under sections 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, and 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Some of the information may be claimed or determined to be Confidential Business Information (CBI).

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.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of boscalid in or on coffee, green bean imported and amends the tolerance for banana, imported. BASF, Inc., requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). This regulation is also a removing tolerance for cucumber, and one tolerance for vegetable, root, subgroup 1A, except sugar beet, garden beet, radish, and turnip which are superceded with higher tolerances formerly published in the Federal Register of March 28, 2008 (73 FR 16553) (FRL-8354-4).

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of acetochlor, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on cotton, gin byproducts; cotton, undelinted seed; soybean, meal; and soybean, seed. Monsanto Company requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). This regulation also removes the existing tolerance for indirect or inadvertent residues of acetochlor on soybean, seed.