Environmental Protection Agency February 10, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Health Effects Subcommittee (HES) of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council). The HES, supplemented with additional members from the Council, will discuss its draft peer review report on EPA's health benefits analyses and uncertainty analyses in the Second Section 812 Prospective Benefit-Cost Study of the Clean Air Act.

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 amend their registrations to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations containing the pesticides malathion, diquat dibromide, metam-potassium, and metam-sodium. The requests would terminate malathion use in or on animal premises and barns used for dairy and livestock. The requests would terminate diquat dibromide use in or on sorghum and soybean (seed crop only). The requests would terminate metam-sodium and metam- potassium soil fumigant uses (agricultural application) for certain products. The requests would not terminate the last malathion, diquat dibromide, metam-potassium, and metam-sodium 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 regulation establishes tolerances for residues of acetamiprid in or on fruit, small, vine climbing, except fuzzy kiwifruit, subgroup 13- 07F; and tea, dried. It additionally establishes tolerances with regional registrations on clover, forage and clover, hay. Finally, this regulation deletes an existing individual tolerance in or on grape, as it will be superseded by inclusion in subgroup 13-07F. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).

The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO)/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG), Pesticide Operations and Management (POM) Working Committee will hold a 2-day meeting, beginning on March 29, 2010 and ending March 30, 2010. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

This notice announces receipt of an application to register a new use for a pesticide product containing a currently registered active ingredient, pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. EPA is publishing this notice of such application, pursuant to section 3(c)(4) of FIFRA.

EPA issued a final rule in the Federal Register of June 3, 2009, concerning minor technical revisions of certain commodity terms listed under 40 CFR part 180, subpart D. The fungal active ingredient Aspergillus flavus NRRL 21882 was inadvertently revised. This document is being issued to amend the section to include text that was omitted.