Environmental Protection Agency November 12, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments
EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to water quality from sedimentation and the potential spread of invasive plants, and recommended the elimination of Off-Highway Vehicle routes with resource concerns. Rating EC2.
SFIREG Full Committee; Notice of Public Meeting
The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO)/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Full Committee will hold a 2-day meeting, beginning on December 7, 2009, and ending December 8, 2009. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.
Adequacy Status of the Tennessee Portion of the Bi-State Memphis Maintenance Plan 8-Hour Ozone Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes
EPA is notifying the public that it has found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) for Shelby County, Tennessee in the 1997 8-Hour Ozone Maintenance Plan State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision, submitted on February 26, 2009, by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. Shelby County is one of the counties in the bi- state Memphis Area for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard. Crittenden County, Arkansas is the other county in the bi-state Memphis Area. Through a separate action EPA has already found the Crittenden County budgets adequate for transportation conformity purposes. This action relates only to the Shelby County, Tennessee budgets. As a result of EPA's finding, Shelby County must use the MVEBs for future conformity determinations for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard.
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Risk and Technology Review Methods Review Panel
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Risk and Technology Review (RTR) Methods Review Panel to discuss its draft advisory report.
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisions pertaining to the manufacture of new chemicals. Under sections 5(d)(2) and 5(d)(3) of TSCA, EPA is required to publish a notice of receipt of a premanufacture notice (PMN) or an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), and to publish periodic status reports on the chemicals under review and the receipt of notices of commencement to manufacture those chemicals. This status report, which covers the period from September 7, 2009 to October 23, 2009, consists of the PMNs and TMEs, both pending or expired, and the notices of commencement to manufacture a new chemical that the Agency has received under TSCA section 5 during this time period.
Notice of Receipt of Requests for Amendments to Delete Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations
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 request for amendments by registrants to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations. Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA provides that a registrant of a pesticide product may at any time request that any of its pesticide registrations be amended to delete one or more uses. FIFRA further provides that, before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any request in the Federal Register.
Pseudomonas Fluorescens; Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption, Solicitation of Public Comment
EPA has received a quarantine exemption request from the United States Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation to use the pesticide Pseudomonas fluorescens CL145A (ATCC 55799) to treat dams, water distribution (e.g., canals, pipes and plumbing), water treatment, water pumping facilities, irrigation and power generation facilities infested with invasive quagga and zebra mussels and associated reservoirs, water holding marinas and watercraft, recreational facilities (e.g., beaches, boat launches), fish hatcheries and fish protection facilities (e.g., fish ladders and screens). The applicant proposes the use of a new chemical which has not been registered by the EPA. EPA is soliciting public comment before making the decision whether or not to grant the exemption.
Dimethyldithiocarbamate Salts; Amendment to Terminate Uses
This notice announces EPA's order to terminate uses, voluntarily requested by the registrant and accepted by the Agency, of products containing the pesticide sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate, pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation order follows a July 1, 2009 Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Request from a sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate registrant to voluntarily amend to terminate uses of their sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate preservation of cotton fabric, preservation of wood veneer, and preservation of alginate pastes product registrations. These are not the last sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate products registered for use in the United States. In the July 1, 2009 Notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order implementing the amendment to terminate 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 its request within this period. The Agency did not receive any comments on the notice. Further, the registrant did not withdraw its request. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order granting the requested amendment to terminate uses. Any distribution, sale, or use of the sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions.
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