Environmental Protection Agency March 18, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of the final product performance test guidelines for fire ants and invertebrate pests of pets. These test guidelines are part of a series of test guidelines established by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) for use in testing pesticides and chemical substances. The test guidelines serve as a compendium of accepted scientific methodologies and protocols for testing that are intended to provide data to inform regulatory decisions. These test guidelines, which are identified as OCSPP Test Guideline 810.3100 and 810.3300, provide guidance for conducting a study to determine pesticide product performance against fire ants and invertebrate pests of pets, respectively, and are used by EPA, the public, and companies that submit data to EPA.

This notice announces the availability of EPA's proposed interim registration review decisions and opens a 60-day public comment period on the proposed interim decisions for the following pesticides: 4-Aminopyridine, 10, 10'-Oxybisphenoxarsine (OBPA), acetochlor, citric acid and salts, dimethenamid/dimethenamid-p, ethofumesate, fenazaquin, forchlorfenuron, monosodium methanearsonate (MSMA), novaluron, nucleopolyhedroviruses and granuloviruses (Insect Viruses), picloram, polixetonium chloride (Busan 77), and rotenone. In addition, the human health and ecological risk assessments for fenazaquin and MSMA and the preliminary work plan for citric acid and salts are also being published for public comment at this time.