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PESTICIDE BRIEFS
OCTOBER 26, 2006

THE NATIONAL SCENE

PRODUCT CANCELLATIONS

PESTICIDE TOLERANCE ACTIONS, REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS, REGISTRATION APPROVALS
After a tolerance has been established, the registrant decides if the commodity/site will be put on the label. Having a tolerance does not automatically mean you can use the chemical. Even when a pesticide has been registered by EPA, you can not use the product until the commodity/site is on the label in your hand. Always read the pesticide label before applying!

RISK ASSESSMENTS
It is important for you to know that EPA is conducting a risk assessment on a particular pesticide, because this means that there may be label restrictions in the future for this product. During the risk assessment period, you may make comments to EPA if you think label restrictions will impose a hardship on production of a commodity.

REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISIONS
It is important for you to know that EPA is conducting a Reregistration study on a particular pesticide, because this means that there may be label restrictions in the future for this product. During the Reregistration period, you may make comments to EPA if you think label restrictions will impose a hardship on production of a commodity.

OTHER REGULATORY ACTIONS

GRANTS

NEWS BRIEFS

REPORTS/ WEB SITES/ PUBS

 

PESTICIDE CONTAINERS AND CONTAINMENT – EPA PUBLISHES REGULATION ESTABLISHING STANDARDS
EPA has published its final rule establishing standards for pesticide containers and containment. The rule was proposed on February 11, 1994; a Supplemental Notice was published on October 21, 1999; and the comment period was reopened on June 30, 2004. The rule establishes standards for refillable and nonrefillable containers, including design specifications for rinsing, durability, and standardized closures. It requires pesticide labels to provide instructions on how to properly clean containers before disposal or recycling. The rule also establishes standards for secondary containment structures at certain agricultural storage sites and for containment pads at certain agricultural pesticide dispensing operations.

The rule affects registrants, distributors, dealers, commercial applicators, and custom blenders but does not extend to containment at individual farms. The rule is intended to ensure that pesticide containers can be safely and effectively rinsed before recycling or disposal. It is intended to promote the safe refill and reuse of refillable containers and to ensure that large quantities of agricultural pesticides will be stored and transferred under conditions that prevent spills and releases of pesticides into the environment. Additional information about the rule and who is affected by the rule is available at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/containers.htm. The Web site includes electronic copies of the rule-related Federal Register notices and a summary of the major requirements of the final rule. The Federal Register notice announcing the final rule is available electronically at: http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p6856a.htm

Questions may be directed to Nancy Fitz at 703-305-7385, or fitz.nancy@epa.gov, or Jeanne Kasai at 703-308-3240, kasai.jeanne@epa.gov. For general information about storage and disposal of pesticide containers, visit http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/storage.htm.

RISK MANAGEMENT DECISIONS FOR COPPER (CUPRIC ION)
EPA has determined that the agricultural uses of copper-containing pesticide products are eligible for reregistration provided that data needs are addressed, certain risk mitigation measures are adopted, and labels are amended accordingly.

The Agency has determined that there are no dietary, residential or occupational risks of concern resulting from exposure to copper products. Based on conservative assumptions on how coppers were applied to assess potential exposure to non-target organisms, EPA’s ecological assessment indicated that copper can pose acute risks to various organisms, with the greatest risk to certain aquatic species resulting from direct applications and runoff from fields adjacent to water bodies. Based on information from the user community that indicated that most typical use rates are significantly lower than the labeled maximum use rates, the manufacturers have agreed to refine their pesticide labels by reducing application rates, defining application intervals, anddetermining seasonal maximum application rates.
Copper pesticides (copper or cupric ion) are extensively used in various agricultural settings including citrus, tree nuts, tomato, pepper, grape, berries and peach. Copper is a broad-spectrum fungicide used on many food and ornamental crops, aquaculture, and also is used to control algae, aquatic weeds, bacteria, and mollusks. The continued use of copper pesticides on agricultural crops to control fungus and bacteria is significant because such products are generally cost-effective, broad-spectrum, and in some cases the only available pesticide to manage the target pests. Coppers are also among the few pesticides that are permitted for use on crops with organic certifications. Copper-based pesticides are also used around the home as garden and lawn fungicides and as root-killers in sewer systems. Coppers are also registered for antimicrobial applications, including uses as an anti-foulant and preservative on wood and other materials. For information, go to: http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12899.htm and http://cfpub.epa.gov/oppref/rereg/status.cfm?show=rereg#C.

TOLERANCE REASSESSMENT DECISION FOR ETHYLENE OXIDE PESTICIDE
EPA has concluded its tolerance reassessment for the pesticide ethylene oxide (ETO) and has determined that with certain exposure mitigation measures, there is reasonable certainty that no harm to people will result from dietary or bystander exposure to ETO orits reaction products, ethylene chlorohydrin (ECH) and ethylene glycol (EG). Therefore, the four tolerances (maximum allowable residue limits) established for ETO are now considered reassessed as safe under federal law.

ETO is used in the U.S. for commercial fumigation/sterilization, mostly for sterilizing medical and laboratory items/equipment. A much smaller use is for fumigating herbs and spices, and black walnuts. ETO residues decline rapidly after sterilization and are unlikely to be found in spices available for consumption. To alleviate potential dietary risk concerns for basil, the registrants submitted voluntary cancellation requests for this use. Additional mitigation includes the use of new technology to reduce residues on other herbs, spices and walnuts. The registrants have agreed to amend their labels to mandate use of such methods.

A Notice of Availability was published August 9 in the Federal Register (http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12906.htm). If substantive information is received that indicates a need to reconsider the decisions presented in this document, EPA may modify these decisions as appropriate through an amendment. Through the tolerance reassessment program, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and food safety standards. The ETO TRED and related documents are available at http://www.regulations.gov in docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0203


In 2007, EPA plans to complete a Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for ETO after the Agency completes its reassessment of an appropriate cancer risk model. The RED document will summarize the findings and reflect the Agency's decisions on risk assessment and risk management for the uses of ETO. The RED will also include an occupational assessment which is typically not included in a TRED. The RED document will also address ETO's status in special review - a process through which pesticides suspected of posing unreasonable risks to human health, the environment, or non-target organisms are referred for review. In 1978, ETO was placed on special review status based on predicted developmental toxicity, mutagenicity, and neurotoxic effects in workers. In the early 1980s, the carcinogenicity of ETO emerged as an issue and was included as a special review concern. The Agency intends to complete the special review for ETO in 2007 after completing the RED.

TITLE: ISOPHORONE; EXEMPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF A TOLERANCE
Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45403-45408
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12547.htm
Purpose: This regulation amends existing exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of isophorone (CAS Reg. No. 78-59-1) to limit the use to beets, ginseng, rice, spinach, sugar beets, and Swiss chard. The Isophorone Task Group (ITG) requested this revised exemption from the requirement of a tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA); as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemicals: Isophorine
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0582.

Contact: Kerry Leifer, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 308-8811; e-mail address: leifer.kerry@epa.gov.

TITLE: INERT INGREDIENT; REVOCATION OF THE TETRAHYDROFURFURYL ALCOHOL (THFA) TOLERANCE EXEMPTION

Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45411-45415
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12591.htm
Purpose: EPA is revoking, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) section 408(e)(1), the existing exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the inert ingredient ``Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol''(THFA) under 40 CFR 180.910, and establishes a limited tolerance for THFA under 40 CFR 180.1263.
Chemicals: Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA)
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0251.

Contact: Karen Angulo, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 306-0404; e-mail address: angulo.karen@epa.gov.

TITLE: METALDEHYDE REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45551-45554
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12896.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide metaldehyde, and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the metaldehyde Docket.
Chemicals: Metaldehyde
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0231.

Contact: Jill Bloom, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-8019; fax number: (703) 308-7070; E-mail address: bloom.jill@epa.gov.

TITLE: PROPYLENE OXIDE (PPO) REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45555-45557
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12897.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration
Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide propylene oxide (PPO), and opens a public comment period on this document. This comment period is intended to provide an additional opportunity for public input; in particular, the Agency is seeking comments regarding what additional measures, beyond emission control techniques, are available to protect bystanders from unsafe exposure to PPO resulting from use in vacuum-sealed pressurized chambers. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the PPO docket.
Chemicals: propylene oxide ( PPO)
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0253.
Contact: Eric Olson, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-8067; fax number: (703) 308-8005; e-mail address: olson.eric@epa.gov.

TITLE: METHYL BROMIDE TOLERANCE REASSESSMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT DECISION (TRED) FOR METHYL BROMIDE, AND REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION (RED) FOR METHYL BROMIDE'S COMMODITY USES; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45546-45548
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12898.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Tolerance
Reassessment and Risk Management Decision (TRED) for Methyl Bromide, and Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for Methyl Bromide's Commodity Uses, and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the methyl bromide docket. Methyl bromide is a broad-spectrum fumigant chemical that can be used as an acaricide, antimicrobial, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, and vertebrate control agent. This reregistration decision document covers the methyl bromide uses that have accompanying food residue tolerances such as post-harvest fumigation of food commodities in chambers at ports or specialized structural fumigations at food processing facilities, as well as some uses without tolerances that are performed in similar facilities. A decision on the reregistration of methyl bromide's non-commodity uses that do not have food tolerances (e.g., pre-plant soil, greenhouse, residential) is scheduled to be completed in 2007 with other soil fumigants.
Chemicals: Methyl Bromide
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0123.

Contact: Steven Weiss, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-8293; fax number: (703) 308-8005; E-mail address: weiss.steven@epa.gov.

TITLE: COPPERS REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45550-45551
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12899.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for copper-containing pesticides and opens a public comment period on this document and its supporting documents. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the coppers docket.
Chemicals: Copper containing pesticides
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0558.

Contact: Rosanna Louie, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-0037; fax number: (703) 308-7070; e-mail address: louie.rosanna@epa.gov.

TITLE: MANDIPROPAMID, FLUOPICOLIDE, AND PROPAMOCARB – PESTICIDE PRODUCTS; REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS
Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45557-45559
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12903.htm
Purpose: This notice announces receipt of applications to register pesticide products containing new active ingredients not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.
Chemicals: New Active Ingredients: Mandipropamid, Fluopicolide, and Propamocarb
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0585.

Contact: Tony Kish, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 308-9443; e-mail address: kish.tony@epa.gov.

TITLE: PESTICIDES; PROCEDURAL REGULATIONS FOR REGISTRATION REVIEW
Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45719-45734
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12904.htmPurpose: This rule establishes procedures for conducting the pesticide registration review program mandated by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Under this rule, EPA will review existing pesticide registrations to determine whether they continue to meet the statutory standard for registration. The registration review program will begin in the fall of 2006. This rule provides for the establishment of pesticide cases for review, the scheduling of reviews, the initiation, completion and documentation of reviews, and associated public participation procedures. The registration review program established by this regulation is intended to ensure that all pesticide registrations are systematically reviewed in a manner that is based on sound science and provides for public participation, transparency and efficiency to protect public health and the environment. In addition, in order to display the OMB control number for the information collection requirements contained in this final rule,
EPA is amending the table of OMB approval numbers for EPA regulations.
Chemicals: N/A
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0253.

Contact: Vivian Prunier, Field and External Affairs Division (7506P), telephone number: (703) 308-9341; e-mail address: prunier.vivian@epa.gov.

TITLE: ORGANIC ARSENICAL HERBICIDES (MSMA, DSMA, CAMA, AND CACODYLIC ACID), REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY

Date of Publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45554-45555
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12905.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the organic arsenical herbicides MSMA, DSMA, CAMA, and cacodylic acid, and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency has determined that all products containing MSMA, DSMA, CAMA, and cacodylic acid are not eligible for reregistration. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the organic arsenical herbicides docket.
Chemicals: Organic Arsenical Herbicides (MSMA, DSMA, CAMA, and cacodylic acid)
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0201.

Contact: Lance Wormell, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 603-0523; fax number: (703) 308-7070; E-mail address: wormell.lance@epa.gov.


TITLE: INORGANIC BROMIDE; TOLERANCE ACTIONS
Date of publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45400- 45403
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12964.htm
Purpose: EPA is revoking twelve specific inorganic bromide tolerances because they are no longer needed. These twelve tolerances are for residues of inorganic bromide from pre-plant (non-food) use in or on raw agricultural commodities grown in soil fumigated with combinations of chloropicrin, methyl bromide, and propargyl bromide. Although methyl bromide is used as an agricultural pesticide, the Agency considers its application as a soil fumigant to be a non-food use because it is quickly degraded or metabolized in the soil, and subsequently incorporated into natural plant constituents. Methyl bromide is also emitted to the atmosphere. Residues of the parent compound are not likely to be found in foods as a result of prior treatment of fields. Consequently, EPA is revoking them because no tolerances are needed for those non-food uses.
Chemical(s): Inorganic Bromide
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0123.

Contact: Steven Weiss, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-8293; e-mail address: weiss.steven@epa.gov.

TITLE: LEPIDOPTERAN PHEROMONES; EXEMPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF A TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 9, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 153, Page 45395-45400
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-09/p12971.htm
Purpose: This regulation amends the existing exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the biochemicals classified as lepidopteran pheromones, which are naturally occurring compounds, or identical or substantially similar synthetic compounds to include use as a post-harvest treatment on all stored food commodities. Bedoukian Research, Inc. submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of biochemicals classified as lepidopteran pheromones.
Chemical(s): Lepidopteran Pheromones
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0529.

Contact: Andrew Bryceland, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), telephone number: (703) 305-6928 ; e-mail address: bryceland.andrew@epa.gov.
TITLE: FINAL NAFTA GUIDANCE FOR CONDUCTING TERRESTRIAL FIELD DISSIPATION STUDIES
Date of publication: August 11, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 155, page 46226-46227
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-11/p13042.htm
Purpose: Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), EPA and the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) have agreed to harmonize their testing guidelines so that one set of tests can be used for the registration of pesticides in Canada and the United States. The NAFTA harmonized guidance for terrestrial field dissipation (TFD) studies are conducted to demonstrate the transformation, transport, and fate of pesticides under representative actual use conditions. These field studies are needed to substantiate the physicochemical, mobility, and biotransformation data from laboratory studies. Environmental fate studies have shown that pesticide dissipation may proceed at different rates under field conditions and may result in degradates forming at levels different from those observed in laboratory studies. The objective of this guidance document is to help ensure that TFD studies are conducted in a manner that will provide risk assessors and risk managers with more confidence in the data generated and with a better understandingof the assumptions and limitations of the data and estimated half-lives of the pesticide.
Chemical(s): N/A
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0129.
Contact: Mark Corbin, Environmental Fate and Effects Division (7507P), telephone number: (703) 605-0033; fax number: (703) 305-6309; e-mail address: corbin.mark@epa.gov.

TITLE: BIFENTHRIN; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 11, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 155, page 46117-46123
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-11/p13058.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of bifenthrin in or on Vegetable, tuberous and corn, subgroup 1C; Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 5B; turnip, greens; Pea and bean, dried shelled, except soybean, subgroup 6C; coriander, leaves; coriander, dried leaves; coriander, seed and okra. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). EPA is also deleting an existing time-limited bifenthrin tolerance that is no longer needed as a result of this action.
Chemical(s): Bifenthrin
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0366.

Contact: Barbara Madden, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-6463; e-mail address: madden.barbara@epa.gov.

TITLE: COPPER SULFATE PENTAHYDRATE; TOLERANCE EXEMPTION IN OR ON VARIOUS FOOD AND FEED COMMODITIES
Date of publication: August 11, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 155, page 46106-46110
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-11/p13082.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance exemption for residues of copper sulfate pentahydrate when applied in or on meat, fat and meat by-products of cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, horses, poultry, milk and eggs when applied as a bactericide/ fungicide to animal premises and bedding.
Chemical(s): Copper Sulfate Pentahydrate
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0314.

Contact: Marshall Swindell, Antimicrobials Division (7510C), telephone number: (703) 308-6341; e-mail: swindell.marshall@epa.gov.

TITLE: IMIDACLOPRID; PESTICIDE TOLERANCES
Date of publication: August 11, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 155, page 46110-46117
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-11/p13092.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of imidacloprid and its metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinyl moiety, all expressed as the parent in or on caneberry subgroup 13A; coffee, green bean; seed of: Black mustard, borage, crambe, field mustard, flax, Indian mustard, Indian rapeseed, rapeseed, safflower, and sunflower; atemoya, biriba, cherimoya, custard apple, ilama, soursop, and sugar apple; almond hulls, pistachio and tree nut group 14; pomegranate; banana; herbs subgroup 19A dried; and herbs subgroup 19A fresh. Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR-4), requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Imidacloprid
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0542.

Contact: Barbara Madden, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-6463; e-mail address: madden.barbara@epa.gov..

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF A PESTICIDE PETITION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF ACEQUINOCYL AND ITS METABOLITE ACEQUINOCYL-OH IN OR ON TREE NUTS (CROP GROUP 14) COMMODITIES
Date of publication: August 11, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 155, page 46223-46224
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-11/p13172.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of acequinocyl (3-dodecyl-1,4-dihydro-1,4-dioxo-2-naphthyl acetate) and its metabolite 2-dodecyl-3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (acequinocyl-OH) expressed as acequinocyl equivalents in or on tree nuts (Crop Group 14) commodities.
Chemical(s): Acequinocyl and Acequinocyle-OH
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0678.

Contact: Marilyn Mautz, Registration Division, (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-6785; e-mail address: mautz.marilyn@epa.gov.

ATRAZINE EFFECTS DETERMINATION FOR THE BARTON SPRINGS SALAMANDER

August 21 - EPA has met the first court-ordered deadline pursuant to a Settlement Agreement signed on August 22, 2005, with the Center for Biological Diversity and the Save Our Springs Alliance. The Agency is releasing its effects determination for atrazine as it relates to the Barton Springs salamander. EPA has concluded that atrazine is "not likely to adversely affect" the Barton Springs salamander. This is the first effects determination made under the provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service's (jointly, Services') Counterpart Regulations.

The atrazine effects determination and other related documents are available at http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/endanger/effects/. The Settlement Agreement in the Barton Springs salamander case is available at http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/cb/csb_page/updates/bartons-agreemt.htm.

As background, on January 26, 2004, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Save Our Springs Alliance (jointly, plaintiffs) filed a lawsuit in federal district court for the District of Columbia alleging that EPA failed to comply with sections 7(a) (1) and 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (CBD v. EPA, Case No. 1:04-cv-00126-CKK - District Court for the District of Columbia). The federal government negotiated a settlement in this case that committed the Agency to review the potential effects of six pesticide active ingredients on the endangered Barton Springs salamander and if adverse effects are expected, to initiate "consultation" with FWS under provisions of the ESA.

To determine atrazine's potential to affect the Barton Springs salamander, the Agency reviewed all available information (including species life history information, species range, toxicity data, and atrazine use information, among other things). The risk assessment and effects determination were conducted consistent with EPA's "Technical Overview of the Risk Assessment Process," (Overview Document) meaning that EPA has fulfilled its obligations under the Counterpart Regulations and does not need to enter into further consultation with FWS.

The Services have reviewed EPA's risk assessment process for endangered species and concluded that EPA can make "not likely to adversely affect" determinations without any further consultation, when that risk assessment is performed consistent with the procedures outlined in the Overview Document. If EPA determines that a pesticide is "likely to adversely affect" a species, EPA still must then enter into formal consultation with the Services.

The next deadline under this settlement agreement is May 2007, by which EPA must make effects determinations for two additional pesticide active ingredients.

EPA PUBLISHES FINAL RULE ON REGISTRATION REVIEW
On August 9, 2006, the Registration Review Final Rule published in the Federal Register to satisfy a Congressional mandate to implement a new program to review existing pesticide registrations on a continuous 15-year cycle. The purpose of the new Registration Review program is to ensure that each pesticide continues to meet the requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) as tlinescientific knowledge evolves and program policies change. This new program goes into effect on October 10, 2006, and will gradually replace the Agency's pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment programs as they are completed.

The Registration Review program will become the framework for managing issues relating to existing pesticides. The program will ensure that the review of each pesticide is based on sound science and provides for public participation, transparency, and efficiency to protect human health and the environment. The Agency will continue to give priority to emerging risk issues as needed to protect human health and the environment.

The Registration Review program will operate continuously, encompassing all registered pesticides, and will adjust the scope and depth of the review in accordance with the complexity of issues associated with each pesticide. Pesticides subject to Registration Review should already have met the data requirements for registration established in 1984. EPA will evaluate the significance of any changes since the last review and decide whether they warrant the submission of additional data or further review of the pesticide?s registration. The Agency will then decide whether existing risk assessments can be used as the basis for a decision, and whether a pesticide continues to meet FIFRA requirements for registration.

For more information about the new program visit: http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/. For available documents, which include the rule, public comments received and Agency responses, and other support documents, visit: http://www.regulations.gov and perform an advanced search for Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0404.

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF A PESTICIDE PETITION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF ATRAZINE IN OR ON LEAFY VEGETABLE CROP GROUP 4 (EXCEPT BRASSICA) COMMODITIES
Date of Publication: August 15, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 157, Page 46911-46912
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-15/p13315.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of atrazine in or on leafy vegetable Crop Group 4 (except Brassica) commodities.
Chemicals: Atrazine
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0192.

Contact: Hope Johnson, Registration Division (7505C), telephone number: (703) 305-5410; e-mail address: johnson.hope@epa.gov.

TITLE: CYPERMETHRIN REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY

Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47210-47212
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13164.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide cypermethrin, and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the cypermethrin docket.
Chemicals: Cypermethrin
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0293.

Contact: Dirk Helder, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 305-4610; e-mail address: helder.dirk@epa.gov.

TITLE: ENDOTHALL; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47101-47106
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13293.htm
Purpose: 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).
Chemicals: Endothal, Monomethyl Ester
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0018.

Contact: Joanne Miller, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-6224; e-mail address: miller.joanne@epa.gov.

TITLE: INORGANIC CHLORATES REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47101-47106
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13293.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Inorganic Chlorates Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED). The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the inorganic chlorates Docket. Of the inorganic chlorates listed as active ingredients (i.e., sodium chlorate, calcium chlorate, potassium chlorate, and magnesium chlorate),only sodium chlorate is present as an active ingredient in currently registered products.
Chemicals: Inorganic Chlorates (mainly sodium chlorate)
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0507.
Contact: Molly Clayton, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 603-0522; e-mail address: clayton.molly@epa.gov.

TITLE: CHLORONEB; TERMINATION OF CERTAIN USES AND LABEL AMENDMENTS
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47213-47215
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13343.htm
Purpose: 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. The request would terminate chloroneb's use on residential lawns and turf, as well as on lawns and turf of parks and schools.
Chemicals: Chloroneb
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0369.
Contact: Wilhelmena Livingston, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-8025; e-mail address: livingston.wilhelmena@epa.gov.

TITLE: STREPTOMYCIN; TOLERANCE REASSESSMENT DECISION
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47209-47210
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13346.htm
Purpose: 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.
Chemicals: Streptomycin
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0493.
Contact: Lance Wormell, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703)-603-0523; e-mail address: wormell.lance@epa.gov.

TITLE: OXYTETRACYCLINE; TOLERANCE REASSESSMENT DECISION
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47210
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13485.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Decision (TRED) for the pesticide oxytetracycline. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the oxytetracycline docket.
Chemicals: Oxytetracycline
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID)number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0492.
Contact: Lance Wormell, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 603-0523; e-mail address: wormell.lance@epa.gov.

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF A PESTICIDE PETITION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF CHITOSAN HYDROLYSATE IN OR ON VARIOUS COMMODITIES
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47217-47218
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13487.htm
Purpose: 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.
Chemicals: Chitosan Hydrolysate
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0596.

Contact: Chris Pfeifer, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), telephone number: (703) 308-0031; e-mail address: pfeifer.chris@epa.gov.

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF A PESTICIDE PETITION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF SALICYLIC ACID IN OR ON VARIOUS COMMODITIES
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47218-47220
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13488.htm
Purpose: 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 the biochemical bactericide and fungicide salicylic acid in or on various commodities.
Chemicals: Salicylic Acid
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0598.

Contact: Chris Pfeifer, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), telephone number: (703) 308-0031; e-mail address: pfeifer.chris@epa.gov.

TITLE: PESTICIDE PRODUCTS; REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47215-47216
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p13518.htm
Purpose: This notice announces receipt of applications to register pesticide products containing new active ingredients not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.
Chemicals: Chitosan Hydrolysate at 8.33%, Chitosan Hydrolysate at 0.8% and Salicylic Acid at 1.5%
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0602.
Contact: Chris Pfeifer, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), telephone number: (703) 308-0031; e-mail address: pfeifer.chris@epa.gov.

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF A PESTICIDE PETITION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF QUINCLORAC IN OR ON BARLEY COMMODITIES
Date of Publication: August 16, 2006Citation: Volume 71, Number 158, Page 47216-47217
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-16/p6913.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of quinclorac in or on barley commodities.
Chemicals: Quinclorac
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0191.

Contact: Hope Johnson, Registration Division (7505C), telephone number: 703-305-5410; e-mail address: johnson.hope@epa.gov.

PENDIMETHALIN: TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF PESTICIDE PETITIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OR AMENDMENT TO REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF PESTICIDE CHEMICALS IN OR ON VARIOUS COMMODITIES
Date of Publication: August 18, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 160 ,Page 47810-47811
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-18/p13657.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of pendimethalin, N-(1-ethylpropyl)-3,4-dimethyl-2,6-dinitrobenzanamine and its 3,5-dinitrobenzyl alcohol metabolite (CL 202347) in or on wheat and alfalfa commodities.
Chemicals: N/A
Comments:EPA has established a docket for this action under docket (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0489.

Contact: Jim Tompkins, Registration Division, (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, telephone number (703) 305-5697; e-mail: tompkins.jim@epa.gov.

EMERALD ASH BORER DETECTED IN MARYLAND – From Faith Kuehn, DDA, 8/25/2006

“You may have already heard this news, but the emerald ash borer was detected in Maryland earlier this week. The State had been surveying trees, after an initial infestation and subsequent eradication effort in 2003. There is now a quarantine on Prince George's Co., allowing no ash trees or hardwood firewood to cross county lines.

DDA has been conducting surveys for this pest since its initial MD detection. The repeat find in MD has led us to believe that an enhanced detection/survey plan is now in order. Accordingly, DDA Forestry, Plant Industries and USDA have met and are crafting a plan for a sentinel tree system and increased survey. Bonnie MacCulloch, a consultant to DDA, completed a project on firewood transport in the state. We will be using the results of this study to increase public awareness about the dangers of transporting firewood across state line. We are hoping that you all can help us in these efforts, and inform us of any suspect damage on ash that you or your contacts encounter.”

LINDANE VOLUNTARY CANCELLATIONS REQUESTED
EPA has received formal requests from the registrants to voluntarily cancel their products containing the pesticide lindane. The Agency received these requests for voluntary cancellation of 12 lindane products in July 2006 from registrants Chemtura USA Corporation, followed by AGSCO Inc., Drexel Chemical Company, and JLM International, Inc. EPA intends to grant these requests pending outcome of the public comment period. This action will cancel the remaining lindane pesticide products registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) for use in the United States.

Lindane is a broad spectrum, organochlorine insecticide used to treat the seeds of barley, corn, oats, rye, sorghum, and wheat. EPA announced in early August 2006 that it has determined that the risks of continued lindane registration outweigh the benefits, and therefore the remaining uses of lindane are not eligible for reregistration. EPA expects the cancellation of these uses to result in no significant loss to U.S. agriculture due to the successful development and registration of safer alternative pesticides in recent years. Once the cancellation process is complete, EPA will propose to revoke the existing tolerances (or allowable residues of lindane) in animal fat.

Lindane is recognized internationally as a toxic, persistent, and bio-accumulative pesticide. The six seed treatment use cancellations are the last of many lindane voluntary cancellations that have taken place since the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) was enacted.

EPA's August 23, 2006 Federal Register notice announcing the lindane voluntary cancellation requests is available at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13955.htm.
Information about lindane is available at http://www.regulations.gov in docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2002-0202, and on the Agency's lindane web page, http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/lindane/

TITLE: AZOXYSTROBIN; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 23, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 163, Page 49358-49363
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13656.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of azoxystrobin in or on vegetables, foliage of legume, group 7; vegetables, fruiting, group 8 (except tomato); pea and bean, succulent shelled, subgroup 6B; pea and bean, dried shelled, except soybean subgroup, 6C; citrus, dried pulp; citrus, oil; and fruit, citrus, Group 10. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Azoxystrobin
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0540. Comments must be received on or before October23, 2006.
Contact: Barbara Madden, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-6463; e-mail address: madden.barbara@epa.gov

TITLE: TRIFLUMIZOLE; PESTICIDE TOLERANCES FOR EMERGENCY EXEMPTIONS
Date of publication: August 23, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 163, Page 49354-49358
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13659.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes time-limited tolerances for combined residues of triflumizole in or on turnip, greens. Additionally, this regulation increases the tolerance levels and extends time-limited tolerances for Chinese Napa cabbage, collards, coriander leaves (cilantro), kale, kohlrabi, mustard greens and parsley. Further, this regulation extends time-limited tolerances for broccoli, dandelion and Swiss chard. This action is in response to EPA's granting of emergency exemptions under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizing use of the pesticide on parsley, dandelion, Swiss chard, collards, kale, kohlrabi, mustard greens, Chinese Napa cabbage, broccoli, coriander leaves (cilantro), and turnip greens. This regulation establishes, revises, and/or extends a maximum permissible level for residues of triflumizole in these food commodities. These tolerances expire and are revoked on December 31, 2009.
Chemical(s): Triflumizole
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0461. Comments must be received on or before October 23, 2006,
Contact: Libby Pemberton, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-9364; e-mail address: Sec-18-Mailbox@eoa.gov.

TITLE: DIMETHENAMID; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 23, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 163, Page 49350-49354
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13660.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of dimethenamid in or on leek; onion, green; onion,Welsh; shallot, fresh leaves. Interregional Research Project No.4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Dimethenamid
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0165. Comments must be received on or before October 23, 2006.
Contact: Barbara Madden, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-6463; e-mail address: Madden.Barbara@epa.gov.

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF A PESTICIDE PETITION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF MYCLOBUTANIL IN OR ON SOYBEAN COMMODITIES

Date of publication: August 23, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 163, Page 49448-49450
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13661.htmPurpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of myclobutanil in or on soybean commodities.
Chemical(s): Myclobutanil in or on soybean commodities
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-00505 and pesticide petition number (PP) 5F6997. Contact: Lisa Jones, Registration Division(7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-9424, e-mail address: jones.lisa@epa.gov.

TITLE: AMITRAZ; TOLERANCE REASSESSMENT DECISION; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Date of publication: August 23, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 163, Page 49442-49443
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13857.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Decision (TRED) for the pesticide amitraz, and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the amitraz Docket.
Chemical(s): Amitraz **
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket dentification (ID)number EPA-HQ-OPP- 2004-0048. Comments must be received on or before October 23, 2006.
Contact: Amaris Johnson, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-9542; e-mail address: Johnson.amaris@epa.gov.

TITLE: PROPICONAZOLE REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION
Date of publication: August 23, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 163, Page 49447-49448
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13859.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide propiconazole. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the propiconazole docket. Propiconazole is used as a conventional fungicide on agricultural crops, ornamentals, and turf and is used as an antimicrobial material preservative and wood preservative. EPA has reviewed propiconazole through the public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions.

Chemical(s): Propiconazole
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP- 2005-0497. There is no Comment period.
Contact: Christina Scheltema, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-2201; fax number: (703) 308-8005; e-mail address: scheltema.christina@epa.gov

TITLE: PHOSPHOROUS ACID; EXEMPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF A TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 23, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 163, Page 49368-49373
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13954.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of phosphorous acid and its ammonium, sodium, and potassium salts in or all food commodities to allow for post-harvest application to stored potatoes at 35,600 parts per million (ppm) or less of phosphorus acid. This exemption is being issued at EPA's own initiative under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of phosphorous acid and its ammonium, sodium, and potassium salts.
Chemical(s): Phosphorous Acid;
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP- 2006-0561.

Contact: Linda Hollis, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-8733; e-mail address: hollis.linda@epa.gov

TITLE: QUINOXYFEN; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 25, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 165; Page 50350-50354
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-25/p14065.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of quinoxyfen in or on commodities: lettuce, head and lettuce, leaf; melon, subgroup 9A; pepper, bell and pepper, nonbell; and strawberry. The Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Quinoxyfen
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0167. Comments must be received on or before October 24, 2006.
Contact: Sidney Jackson, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-7610; e-mail address: Jackson.sidney@epa.gov.

KRESOXIM-METHYL; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 25, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 165; Page 50354-50359
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-25/p14165.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance for combined residues f kresoxim-methyl in or on vegetable, cucurbit, group 9. Interregional Research Project No. 4 requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Kresoxim-methylComments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0333. Comments must be received on or before October 24, 2006.
Contact: Barbara Madden, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-6463; e-mail address: madden.barbara@epa.gov

THE NEW PRODUCTS/TRANSITIONAL SOLUTIONS LIST - is now available online at:

http://www.ir4.rutgers.edu/FoodUse/NewProductsAugust2006.pdf

AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE BOOK REVIEW

The New England Journal of Medicine has posted a book review on "Agricultural Medicine; A Practical Guide" in their August 31, 2006 issue (Vol. 355, no. 9:964-965).

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/9/964 should get you to the page where you can download the PDF file.

EPA SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON PROPOSED STIPULATED INJUNCTION REGARDING THREATENED SPECIES
September 1 - EPA has published in the Federal Register a proposed Stipulated Injunction that would resolve a lawsuit brought against EPA by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). The Stipulated Injunction establishes a series of deadlines for the Agency to make "effects determinations" for 66 named pesticides to determine their potential effect on the California red-legged frog (a threatened species native to California). The Stipulated Injunction also (with some exceptions) enjoins, vacates, and sets aside EPA's authorization of uses of the 66 pesticides in certain parts of 33 counties in California. The injunctive relief, vacatur, and setting aside of EPA's authorizations would terminate for a particular use of a pesticide once the Agency reaches a "no effect" or "not likely to adversely affect" determination for which consultation is not necessary, receives the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's concurrence on a "not likely to adversely affect" determination for which consultation is necessary, or completes consultation with the Service on any determinations that the action “may affect and is likely to adversely affect” the species.

The Stipulated Injunction would also require EPA to develop and distribute a bilingual (English and Spanish) brochure regarding certain aspects of the Stipulated Injunction, information about the California red-legged frog and frogs in general, and pesticides. EPA will be required to distribute this brochure to all commercial certified applicators within California, all private certified applicators residing in counties where use authorizations have been set aside, registrants of the 66 pesticides, the California Departments of Pesticide Regulation and Fish and Game, and the Pacific Region of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In addition, EPA is to distribute 250 copies of the brochure to each County Agricultural Commissioner and each Cooperative Extension Agent office in the affected counties.

EPA is seeking public comment to determine if any changes are necessary to the proposed Stipulated Injunction. The full text of the proposed Stipulated Injunction, a Fact Sheet, and instructions for submitting comments are available at: www.epa.gov/espp

TITLE: CARBOFURAN; INTERIM REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION; NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Date of publication: August 30, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 168, Page 51610-51612

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-30/p14213.htm

Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED) for the N-methyl carbamate pesticide carbofuran, and opens a public comment period on this document. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the carbofuran docket. Carbofuran works as a cholinesterase inhibitor and is used to treat pests of food and non-food crops as either a flowable or granular formulation. It is registered for use on a variety of fruit and vegetable crops, as well as ornamentals and agricultural fallow land. EPA has reviewed carbofuran through the public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions.
Chemical(s): Carbofuran **
Comments: EPA has established a docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0162. Comments must be received on or before October 30, 2006.
Contact: Stephanie Plummer, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 305-0076; e-mail address: plummer.stephanie@epa.gov

TITLE: TRIADIMEFON AND TRIADIMENOL; REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION (RED) for Triadimefon and Tolerance Reassessment and Risk Management Decision (TRED) for Triadimenol; Notice of Availability
Date of publication: August 30, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 168, Page 51612-51614
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-30/p14318.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for triadimefon and Tolerance Reassessment and Risk Management Decision (TRED) for triadimenol, and opens a public comment period on this (RED/TRED) document. Triadimefon is a broad spectrum, systemic fungicide used to control rust and mildew on pineapple. In addition, it is used to control various fungal diseases on non-food use sites such as golf course and sod farm turf, pine seedlings, Christmas trees, and ornamentals. Use on residential turf will be voluntarily cancelled. The primary metabolite of triadimefon is triadimenol, which is also registered separately as a systemic fungicide for seed treatment of barley, corn, cotton, oats, rye, sorghum, and wheat.
Chemical(s): Triadimefon and Triadimenol
Comments: EPA has established a docket identification number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0258 (Triadimefon) and EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0038 (Triadimenol). Comments must be received on or before October 30, 2006.
Contact: John W. Pates, Jr., Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-8195; e-mail address: pates.john@epa.gov.

TITLE: BIFENAZATE; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 30, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 168, Page 51500-51505
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-30/p14427.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of bifenazate in or on pea, garden; pea, edible podded; vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C; fruit, stone, group 12, except plum; plum; cattle fat; goat fat; hog fat; horse fat; and sheep fat. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Bifenazate
Comments: EPA has established a docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0327. Comments must be received on or before October 30, 2006.
Contact: Shaja R. Brothers, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-3194; e-mail address: brothers.shaja@epa.gov.

TITLE: ETHOFUMESATE; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 30, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 168, Page 51510-51516
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-30/p14431.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of the herbicide, ethofumesate in or on carrot, roots (with regional restrictions for use in the States of Washington and Oregon), beet, garden, tops and beet, garden, roots; onion, bulb; garlic, bulb; shallot, bulb; and shallot, fresh leaves. The Interregional Research Project #4 (IR-4), 681 Highway 1 South, North Brunswick, NJ 08902-3390 requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Ethofumesate
Comments: EPA has established a docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0537. Comments must be received on or before October 30, 2006.
Contact: Sidney Jackson, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency; telephone number: (703) 305-7610; e-mail address: jackson.sidney@epa.gov.

TITLE: S-METOLACHLOR; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: August 30, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 168, Page 51505-51510
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/August/Day-30/p14443.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of S-metolachlor in or on pumpkin, and squash, winter. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).Chemical(s): S-metolachlor
Comments: EPA has established a docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0292. Comments must be received on or before October 30, 2006.
Contact: Shaja R. Brothers, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-3194; e-mail address: brothers.shaja@epa.gov.

TITLE: 2, 6-DIISOPROPYLNAPHTHALENE; TIME-LIMITED PESTICIDE TOLERANCES
Date of publication: September 1, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 170, Page 52003-52012
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-01/p14545.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes time-limited tolerances for residues of 2, 6-Diisopropylnaphthalene, resulting from post-harvest applications to potato, in or on fat (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.8 part per million (ppm); liver (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.3 ppm; meat (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.1 ppm; meat byproducts (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.1 ppm; milk at 0.1 ppm; potato at 2.0 ppm; and potato, wet peel at 6.0 ppm. Loveland Products, Inc. had requested permanent tolerances (in or on whole potato and potato peels at 2 and 6 ppm, respectively) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). The time-limited tolerances will expire on August 1, 2009.
Chemical(s): 2, 6-Diisopropylnaphthalene
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID)number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0373. Comments must be received on or before October 31, 2006
Contact: Denise Greenway, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, telephone number: (703) 308-8263; e-mail address: greenway.denise@epa.gov.


TITLE: BENTHIAVALICARB-ISOPROPYL; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 1, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 170, Page 51998-52003
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-01/p7313.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for the combined residues of benthiavalicarb-isopropyl, isopropyl[(S)-1-[[[(1R)-1-(6-fluoro-2-benzothiazolyl)ethyl]amino]carbonyl] -2-methylpropyl]carbamate and isopropyl[(S)-1-[[[(1S)-1-(6-fluoro-2-benzothiazolyl)ethyl]amino] carbonyl]-2-methylpropyl]carbamate, in or on imported grape at 0.25 parts per million (ppm), tomato at 0.45 ppm, and grape, raisin at 1.0 ppm. K-I Chemical U.S.A., Inc., requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Benthiavalicarb-Isopropyl
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0035. Comments must be received on or before October 31, 2006.Contact: Mary Waller, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency; telephone number: (703) 308-9354; e-mail address: waller.mary@epa.gov.

EPA METHYL BROMIDE INVENTORY DATA SHOWS DOWNWARD TREND

EPA released data showing a steady decline in the aggregate methyl bromide inventory held by companies in the United States since 2003, when the Agency began collecting such information.

Methyl bromide is a widely used soil fumigant that is also a powerful ozone-depleting substance. Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the Clean Air Act, the United States phased out new production and import of methyl bromide, except for allowable exemptions for users who have no technically and economically feasible alternatives. Methyl bromide needs for these critical uses are met through allowable production under the Montreal Protocol's exemption process as well as the use of existing inventory held by companies in the United States.

The data includes, in aggregate form, the inventory held by approximately 35 companies in the United States from 2003 to 2005. The methyl bromide inventory data shows a continued decrease - approximately 16,422 metric tons in 2003, 12,994 metric tons in 2004, and 9,974 metric tons in 2005 - and demonstrates that the United States is managing its domestic inventory appropriately.

The phaseout of new production and import and the orderly reduction in the existing inventory that facilitates transition to alternatives are proceeding in a manner consistent with previous successful phaseouts of ozone-depleting substances, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons. The United States continues to protect the ozone layer and meet its obligations under the Montreal Protocol while meeting the needs of American farmers.

Since 1994, the U.S. Government has invested over $150 million in research and innovative technologies to promote alternatives to methyl bromide. In addition, U.S.farmers have adopted innovative technologies to reduce methyl bromide use and emissions, such as reduced methyl bromide concentrations in mixtures, and the use of tarps to retain methyl bromide in the soil for longer periods of time.

While not as highly damaging to the ozone layer as other chemicals that have already been phased out (like chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs), scientists have reaffirmed methyl bromide status as a powerful ozone-depleting chemical. The World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme 2006 Scientific Assessment recently affirmed that bromine continues to play a major role in stratospheric ozone depletion. The ongoing transition to methyl bromide alternatives continues to be an important priority for EPA.

EPA's release of the aggregate inventory numbers was made possible by the conclusion of two lawsuits that had been brought to prevent the release of the aggregate data. For more information: http://www.epa.gov/ozone/mbr/

NEW EPA BROCHURE PROVIDES TIPS ON GREEN LANDSCAPING PRACTICES
EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs is pleased to announce a new publication,
GreenScaping: The Easy Way to a Greener, Healthier Yard. This brochure was developed for homeowners and is a joint effort of the EPA Office of Solid Waste, Office of Water and Office of Pesticide Programs. To view the brochure on line, go to:
http://epa.gov/oppfead1/Publications/catalog/greenscaping.pdf and find out how to plant right for the site, conserve water, reduce yard waste, and use pesticides wisely.
EPA's GreenScapes Alliance program provides cost-effective and environmentally friendly solutions for landscaping. The Alliance is a growing group of organizations, large and small, that implements and promotes sustainable landscape design, construction, and maintenance. For general information about GreenScapes, visit the web site at www.epa.gov/greenscapes and look over the introductory brochure at:
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/green/pubs/brochure.pdf.

To order free copies of the GreenScaping brochure (EPA530-K-06-002), orders (between 5 and 100 copies), contact the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) on the Internet at www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/pub-n, by email at ncepimal@one.net, by phone 1-800-490-9198 or (513) 489-8190 or by mail U.S. EPA/NSCEP P. O. Box 42419 Cincinnati, Ohio 45242-0419. For large orders (100 or
more), please contact Kathy Seikel at Seikel.Kathy@epa.gov with your contact information and the number of copies you would like sent to you.

For more information about GreenScaping and GreenScapes Alliance, go to: http://www.epa.gov/greenscapes/

TITLE: PROPOXYCARBAZONE; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 6, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 172, Page 52483-52487
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-06/p14641.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes increased tolerances for residues of
propoxycarbazone in or on wheat forage, meat byproducts and milk. Bayer
CropScience requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act tline(FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Propoxycarbazone
Comments: This regulation is effective September 6, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 6, 2006, EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0504.
Contact: Joanne I. Miller, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703)
305-6224; e-mail address: miller.joanne@epa.gov. *

TITLE: PARAQUAT DICHLORIDE; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 6, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 172, Page 52487-52494
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-06/p14642.htmPurpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of paraquat
dichloride in or on various food and feed commodities. The tolerances were requestd by Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Paraquat Dichloride
Comments: This regulation is effective September 6, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 6, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0664.
Contact: Hope Johnson, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: 703-305-5410;
e-mail address: johnson.hope@epa.gov. *

SHAKEAWAY DEER REPELLENT GRANULES

Title: Pesticide Product Registration Approval; Request for Comments
Date of publication: September 6, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 172, Page 52539-52541
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-06/p14718.htm
Purpose: This notice announces and requests comments on an application from
Shake-Away to register the pesticide product ShakeAway Deer Repellent Granules
containing an active ingredient not included in any previously registered product
pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(5) of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.
Chemical(s): Biopesticide chemical containing 5% coyote urine
Comments: docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0389,

Contact: Todd Peterson, Ph.D., Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division
(7511P telephone number: (703) 308-7224; e-mail address: peterson.todd@epa.gov.

BIOPESTICIDE GRANTS PROPOSALS REQUESTED

The IR-4 Biopesticide Research Program announces a request for grant proposals for funding of efficacy research in 2007. IR-4 is especially interested in proposals containing biopesticides as resistance management tools, rotated with conventional products. While resistance management is an important interest, the proposal must still have a majority focus on biopesticides. Project proposals will be accepted in Early, Advanced and Demonstration stage categories. The total amount of funding available will be around $ 400,000. Most successful grants have generally ranged from $5,000 to $10,000 with the largest grants generally around $20,000. The primary objective of the IR-4 Biopesticide Research Program is to further the development and registration of biopesticides for use in pest management systems for specialty crops or for minor uses on major crops. NOTE: If you are submitting a proposal for the Early or Advanced stage project, please use the forms starting on page 14. If you are submitting a proposal for a Demonstration project, please use the forms starting on pages 27. You can download the Grant Procedure and Application in Word format at : http://ir4.rutgers.edu/Biopesticides/EarlyAdvDemoGuidelinesForms-2007.doc

If you would like a hard copy of the proposal mailed to you please contact Clarita Griffith at griffith@aesop.rutgers.edu or (732) 932-9575 ext. 4624. Proposals will be due November 14, 2006.

For questions about proposal format and content contact:Michael Braverman, PhD, Biopesticide Program Manager
IR-4 Project, Rutgers University, Technology Centre of New Jersey
500 College Road East, Suite 201 W, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Tel (732)932-9575 ext 4610; FAX (609)514-2612
braverman@aesop.rutgers.edu website: http://ir4.rutgers.edu/biopesticides.html

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF PESTICIDE PETITIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OR AMENDMENT TO REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF SPIROMESIFEN IN OR ON VARIOUS COMMODITIES
Date of publication: September 13, 2006,
Citation: Volume 71, Number 177, Page 54057-54058
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day 13/p14989.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions from Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR-4)and Bayer CropScience proposing the establishment or amendment of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.

Chemical(s): Spiromesifen
Comments: docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0677,

Contact: Barbara Madden, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number:(703) 305-6463, e-mail address: madden.barbara@epa.gov.

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF PESTICIDE PETITIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT TO REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF TRIFLOXYSTROBIN IN OR ON VARIOUS COMMODITIES
Date of publication: September 13, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 177, Page 54058-54060
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-13/p14992.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide Petitions by The Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4), proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of trifloxystrobin in or on asparagus; papaya; sapote, black; canistel; sapote, mamey; mango; sapodilla; star apple; vegetable, root, except sugar beet, subgroup 1B; and radish, tops.
Chemical(s): Trifloxystrobin
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0730, must be received on or before October 13, 2006.
Contact: Shaja R. Brothers, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 308-3194; e-mail address: brothers.shaja@epa.gov.

TITLE: EUCALYPTUS OIL FOR VARROA MITES; EXEMPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF A TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 13, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 177, Page 53974-53979
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-13/p14995.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of eucalyptus oil on honey and honeycomb when applied at 2 g or less eucalyptus oil per hive to suppress varroa mites. Brushy Mountain Bee farm, c/o IR-4 Project submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of eucalyptus oil in honey and honeycomb.
Chemical(s): Eucalyptus Oil
Comments: This regulation is effective September 13, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 13, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0695.
Contact: Driss Benmhend, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), telephone number: (703) 308-9525; e-mail address: benmhend.driss@epa.gov.

TITLE: DIFENOCONAZOLE; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 13, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 177, Page 53979-53984
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-13/p15090.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of difenoconazole, (1-[2-[2-chloro-4-(4-chlorophenoxy)phenyl]-4-methyl-
1,3-dioxolan-2-ylmethyl]-1H-1,2,4-triazole), when used as a seed treatment in or on barley, hay; barley, straw; corn, sweet, forage; corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed; corn, sweet, stover; cotton, gin byproducts; cotton, undelinted seed; and as a foliar treatment on fruit, pome, group 11 (import); and on grape (import). Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). This rule also revises the chemical name of the active ingredient, difenoconazole, from [(2S,4R)/(2R/4S)]/[(2R/4R)]/(2S,4S) 1-(2-[4-(4-chlorophenoxy)-2-chlorophenyl]-4-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl-methyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole, to the following, (1-[2-[2-chloro-4-(4-chlorophenoxy)phenyl]-4-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-ylmethyl]-1H-1,2,4-triazole). EPA is also deleting certain difenoconazole tolerances that are no longer needed as result of this action.
Chemical(s): Difenoconazole;
Comments: This regulation is effective September 13, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 13, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0024
Contact: Tony Kish, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 308-9443; e-mail address: kish.tony@epa.gov.

TITLE: ENDOSULFAN, FENARIMOL, IMAZALIL, ORYZALIN, SODIUM ACIFLUORFEN, TRIFLURALIN, AND ZIRAM; TOLERANCE ACTIONS
Date of publication: September 15, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 179, Page 54423-54434
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-15/p15258.htm
Purpose: EPA is revoking certain tolerances for the insecticide endosulfan; the fungicides fenarimol, imazalil, and ziram; and the herbicide trifluralin. Also, EPA is modifying certain tolerances for the insecticide endosulfan, the fungicides fenarimol and imazalil, and the herbicides sodium acifluorfen and trifluralin. EPA is not modifying tolerances for ziram. In addition, EPA is establishing new tolerances for the insecticide endosulfan, the fungicides fenarimol and imazalil, and the herbicides oryzalin and trifluralin. The regulatory actions in this document are part of the Agency's reregistration program under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
Chemical(s): Endosulfan, Fenarimol, Imazalil, Oryzalin, Sodium Acifluorfen, Trifluralin, and Ziram
Comments: This regulation is effective September 15, 2006. However, certain regulatory actions will not occur until the date specified in the regulatory text. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 14, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0459.
Contact: Kendra Tyler, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-0125; e-mail address: tyler.kendra@epa.gov.

TITLE: CHLORPROPHAM, LINURON, PEBULATE, ASULAM, AND THIOPHANATE-METHYL; PROPOSED TOLERANCE ACTIONS
Date of publication: September 20, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 182, Page 54953-54965
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-20/p15471.htm
Purpose: EPA is proposing to revoke certain tolerances for the herbicides linuron and pebulate and the fungicide thiophanate-methyl. Also, EPA is proposing to modify certain tolerances for the herbicides chlorpropham, linuron, asulam and the fungicide thiophanate-methyl. In addition, EPA is proposing to establish new tolerances for the herbicides chlorpropham, linuron, asulam, and the fungicide thiophanate-methyl. The regulatory actions proposed in this document are part of the Agency's reregistration program under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
Chemical(s): Chlorpropham, Linuron, Pebulate, Asulam, and Thiophanate-methyl
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0483, must be received on or before November 20, 2006.
Contact: Jane Smith, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-0048; e-mail address: smith.jane-scott@epa.gov.

TITLE: PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS STRAIN E325; EXEMPTION FROM THE REQUIREMENT OF A TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 20, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 182, Page 54928-54933
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-20/p8005.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the Pantoea agglomerans strain E325 on apples and pears when applied/used as a microbial pesticide. Northwest Agricultural Products submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of Pantoea agglomerans strain E325.
Chemical(s): Pantoea Agglomerans Strain E325
Comments: This regulation is effective September 20, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 20, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0617.Contact: Leonard Cole, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), telephone number: (703) 305-5412; e-mail address: cole.leonard@epa.gov.

TITLE: 2-(THIOCYANOMETHYLTHIO) BENZOTHIAZOLE; ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATES; ORTHOPHENYLPHENOL; CHLORINE DIOXIDE AND SODIUM CHLORITE REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY Decisions; Notice of Availability
Date of publication: September 22, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 184, Page 55466-55468
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-22/p7959.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decisions (REDs) for the pesticides 2-(Thiocyanomethylthio) benzothiazole (TCMTB); Alkylbenzene Sulfonates (ABS); Orthophenylphenol (OPP); Chlorine Dioxide and Sodium Chlorite and opens a public comment period on these documents. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the TCMTB; ABS; OPP; Chlorine Dioxide and Sodium Chlorite Dockets.
Chemical(s): 2-(Thiocyanomethylthio) benzothiazole; Alkylbenzene Sulfonates; Orthophenylphenol; Chlorine Dioxide and Sodium Chlorite. **
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number, by one of the following methods: For TCMTB, docket
identification (ID) number EPA-HQ- OPP-2006-0320; for ABS, docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ- OPP-2006-0156; for OPP, docket
identification (ID) number EPA-HQ- OPP-2006-0154; and for Chlorine Dioxide and Sodium Chlorite, docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-
OPP-2006-0328. must be received on or before November 21, 2006.
Contact: For TCMTB, contact K. Avivah Jakob, Antimicrobials Division (7510P telephone number: (703) 305-1328; fax number: (703) 308-8481; e-mail address: jakob.kathryn@epa.gov.For ABS, contact Heather Garvie, Antimicrobials Division (7510P), telephone number: (703) 308-0034; fax number: (703) 308-8481; e-mail address: garvie.heather@epa.gov. For OPP, contact Rebecca Miller, Antimicrobials Division (7510P), telephone number: (703) 305-0012; fax number: (703) 308-8481; e-mail address: miller.rebecca@epa.gov. For Chlorine Dioxide and Sodium Chlorite, contact ShaRon Carlisle, Antimicrobials Division (7510P), telephone number: (703) 308-6427; fax number: (703) 308-8481; e-mail address: carlisle.sharon@epa.gov

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF PESTICIDE PETITIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OR AMENDMENT TO REGULATIONS FOR RESIDUES OF ACETAMIPRID IN OR ON VARIOUS COMMODITIES
Date of publication: September 22, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 184, Page 55468-55469
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-22/p7961.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions from Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. c/o Nisso America Inc., proposing the establishment or amendment of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.
Chemical(s: Various
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0773, must be received on or before October 23, 2006.Contact: Akiva Abramovitch, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 308-8328; e-mail: abramovitch.akiva@epa.gov.

TITLE: TRIFLOXYSTROBIN; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 22, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 184, Page 55313-55319
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-22/p8060.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of Trifoxystrobin (Benzeneacetic acid, (E,E)-[alpha]-(methoxyimino)-2-[[[[1-[3-(trifluoromethyl) phenyl]ethylidene]amino]oxy]methyl]-, methyl ester and the free form of its acid metabolite CGA-321113 ((E,E)-methoxyimino-(2-[1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl) ethylideneaminooxymethyl] phenyl)acetic acid)) in or on soybean, forage at 10.0 parts per million (ppm), soybean, hay at 25.0 ppm, and soybean, seed at 0.08 ppm. Bayer Crop-Science requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Trifloxystrobin
Comments: This regulation is effective September 22, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 21, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0299.
Contact: Janet Whitehurst, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-6129; e-mail address: janet.whitehurst@epa.gov.

TITLE: PROPICONAZOLE; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 22, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 184, Page 55300-55307
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-22/p8064.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes or revises tolerances for combined
residues of propiconazole and its metabolites containing the dichlorobenzoic acid (DCBA) moiety expressed as parent compound in or on various commodities; and inadvertent residues in or on alfalfa, forage and alfalfa, hay. Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. and Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR-4), requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Propiconazole
Comments: This regulation is effective September 22, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 21, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0347.
Contact: Mary Waller, Registration Division (7505P) telephone number: (703) 308-9354; e-mail address: waller.mary@epa.gov.

TITLE: BUPROFEZIN; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 22, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 184, Page 55307-55313
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Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance for combined residues or residues of buprofezin in or on almond hulls; cotton, gin byproducts: Cottonseed; and tomato. Nichino America, Inc. requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Buprofezin
Comments: This regulation is effective September 22, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 21, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0170.
Contact: Kevin Sweeney, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-5063; e-mail address: sweeney.kevin@epa.gov.

TOLERANCES REVOKED OR MODIFIED: P-CHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID, GLYPHOSATE, DIFENZOQUAT, AND HEXAZINONE;

Date of publication: September 27, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 187, Page 56392-56399
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-27/p15840.htm
Purpose: EPA is revoking certain tolerances for the plant growth regulator p-chlorophenoxyacetic acid and the herbicide hexazinone. Also, EPA is modifying certain tolerances for the plant growth regulator p-chlorophenoxyacetic acid and the herbicides glyphosate, difenzoquat, and hexazinone. In addition, EPA is establishing new tolerances for the herbicides difenzoquat and hexazinone.
Chemical(s): p-Chlorophenoxyacetic acid, Glyphosate, Difenzoquat, and Hexazinone.
Comments: This regulation is effective September 27, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 27, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0036.
Contact: Jane Smith, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-0048; e-mail address: smith.jane-scott@epa.gov.

TITLE: PROPANIL, PHENMEDIPHAM, TRIALLATE, AND MCPA; PROPOSED TOLERANCE ACTIONS
Date of publication: September 27, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 187, Page 56425-56433
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-27/p15841.htm
Purpose: EPA is proposing to revoke certain tolerances for herbicides propanil, triallate, and MCPA. Also, EPA is proposing to modify certain tolerances for the herbicides propanil, phenmedipham, triallate, and MCPA. In addition, EPA is proposing to establish tolerances for the herbicides propanil, phenmedipham, triallate, and MCPA.
Chemical(s): Propanil, Phenmedipham, Triallate, and MCPA
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0586, must be received on or before November 27, 2006.
Contact: Jane Smith, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7805P), telephone number: (703) 308-0048; e-mail address: smith.jane-scott@epa.gov.

TITLE: ETHABOXAM; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 27, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 187, Page 56388-56392
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-27/p8176.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of ethaboxam in or on grape at 6.0 parts per million (ppm), with no U.S. registration. Landis International, Inc., agent for LG Life Sciences, Ltd. requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Chemical(s): Ethaboxam
Comments: This regulation is effective September 27, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 27, 2006.
EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0058.
Contact: Bryant Crowe, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-0025; e-mail address: crowe.bryant@epa.gov.

TITLE: QUIZALOFOP ETHYL; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 27, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 187, Page 56374-56378
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-27/p8253.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance for combined residues of quizalofop ethyl in or on the raw agricultural commodities barley, grain; barley, hay; barley, straw; flax, seed; milk, fat; sunflower, seed; wheat, forage; wheat, grain; wheat, hay; and wheat, straw. Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Chemical(s): Quizalofop ethyl
Comments: This regulation is effective September 27, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 27, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0204.
Contact: James A. Tompkins, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: 703-305-5697; e-mail address: Tompkins.jim@epa.gov.

TITLE: PENDIMETHALIN; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 27, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 187, Page 56369-56374
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-27/p8254.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance for combined residues of pendimethalin, N-(1-ethylpropyl)-3,4-dimethyl-2,6-dinitrobenzenamine, and its metabolite 4-[(1-ethylpropyl)amino]-2-methyl-3,5-dinitrobenyzl alcohol in or on alfalfa, forage; alfalfa, hay; alfalfa, seed; apple, wet pomace; fruit, pome, group 11; fruit, stone, group 12; juneberry; leek; onion, green; onion, welsh; pomegranate; shallot; strawberry; vegetable, fruiting, group 8; wheat, grain; wheat, forage; wheat, hay; and wheat, straw. BASF Corporation and Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Chemical(s): Pendimethalin
Comments: This regulation is effective September 27, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 27, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0645.
Contact: Jim Tompkins, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305 5697; e-mail address: tompkins.jim@epa.gov.
TOLERANCES REVOKED OR MODIFIED: BENTAZON, CARBOXIN, DIPROPYL ISOCINCHOMERONATE, OIL OF LEMONGRASS (OIL OF LEMON) AND OIL OF ORANGE
Date of publication: September 27, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 187, Page 56378-56383
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-27/p8255.htm
Purpose: EPA is revoking certain tolerances for the fungicide carboxin, the insecticide dipropyl isocinchomeronate, and the fungicide/animal repellent oil of lemon (oil of lemongrass) and oil of orange. Also, EPA is modifying certain tolerances for the herbicide bentazon and the fungicide carboxin. In addition, EPA is establishing new tolerances for the herbicide bentazon.
Chemical(s): Bentazon, Carboxin, Dipropyl Isocinchomeronate, Oil of Lemongrass (Oil of Lemon) and Oil of Orange
Comments: This regulation is effective September 27, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 27, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0056.
Contact: Monisha Dandridge, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), telephone number: (703) 308-0410; e-mail address: dandridge.monisha@epa.gov.

TITLE: FLUFENOXURON; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: September 29, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 189, Page 57431-57436
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-29/p15931.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of flufenoxuron in or on apple, grape, pear, orange, and livestock commodities. BASF Corporation requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Flufenoxuron
Comments: This regulation is effective September 29, 2006. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before November 28, 2006. EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0543.
Contact: Mark Suarez, Registration Division (7505P), telephone number: (703) 305-0120; e-mail address: suarez.mark@epa.gov.

TITLE: NOTICE OF FILING OF A PESTICIDE PETITION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF TOLERANCES FOR RESIDUES OF THE HERBICIDE PYROXSULAM ON WHEAT, HAY, AND STRAW
Date of publication: September 29, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 189, Page 57507-57508
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-29/p8383.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition by Dow AgroSciences LLC, proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of the herbicide pyroxsulam on wheat, hay, and straw.
Chemical(s): Pyroxsulam
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0785, must be received on or before October 30, 2006.Contact: Joanne I. Miller, Registration Division (7505P), (703) 305-6224; e-mail address: miller.joanne@epa.gov.

TITLE: FLUMETSULAM; PESTICIDE TOLERANCE
Date of publication: October 4, 2006
Citation: Volume 71, Number 192 ; Page 58514-58518]
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/October/Day-04/p16271.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of flumetsulam in or on beans (dry). Dow AgroSciences LLC requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Flumetsulam
Comments: Comments identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP- 2006-0670, Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before December 4, 2006,
Contact: Phil Errico, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6663; e-mail address: errico.phil@epa.gov

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