EPA Pesticide Program Updates
from EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs 11/30/04
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides
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IN THIS UPDATE:
1) Reregistration Decisions Announced for Three Pesticides
On November 24, EPA published three Federal Register notices announcing the
availability of the cycloate, MCPA, and thiophanate-methyl REDs, opening public
dockets and initiating 60-day public comment periods for each chemical. EPA
will be accepting comments on the cycloate, MCPA, and thiophanate-methyl REDs
until
od/feed use sites such as golf courses, sod farms,
greenhouses and nurseries. Thiophanate-methyl also has registered residential
uses on lawns, ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants.
EPA is requiring changes to use rates and other measures to reduce risks to
workers using these pesticides, as well as other measures to protect human
health and the environment. In addition, additional data are being required to
address specific issues. All three pesticides are eligible for reregistration,
once the data are submitted and required labeling and other changes are made.
Additional information can be found in the respective fact sheets at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/status.htm.
For Federal Register Notices, please visit http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr.
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2) Pesticide Federal Register Items for the Week of November 22-26, 2004
The Office of Pesticide Programs published the following seven items in the
Federal Register during the past week:
*Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB; Comment Request;
EPA ICR No. 0596.08; OMB Control No. 2070-0032; Application and Summary Report
for an Emergency Exemption for Pesticides * Trifluralin; Proposed Pesticide
Tolerance * MCPA; Availability of Reregistration Eligibility Decision Document
for Comment * Thiophanate-methyl; Availability of Reregistration Eligibility
Decision Documents for Comment * Captan; Cancer Reclassification; Amendment of
Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability * Cycloate;
Availability of Reregistration Eligibility Decision Document for Comment *
Certain Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) and Ethylene Thiourea (ETU); Risk
Assessments and Preliminary Risk Reduction Options (Phase 3 of 4-Phase
Process); Notice of Availability
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB; Comment
Request; EPA ICR No. 0596.08; OMB Control No. 2070-0032; Application and
Summary Report for an Emergency Exemption for Pesticides Date of publication:
November 22, 2004 Citation: Volume 69, Number 224, Pages 67909-67910
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/November/Day-22/p25821.htm
Purpose: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that the following Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and approval: Application and Summary Report for an Emergency
Exemption for Pesticides; EPA ICR No. 0596.08; OMB Control No. 2070-0032. The
ICR, which is abstracted in the FR notice describes
the nature of the information collection activity and its expected burden and
costs. It is related to the Section 18 emergency exemption evaluation process.
Chemical(s) N/A Comments: Additional comments may be submitted on or before
December 22, 2004 referencing docket ID number OPP-2004- 0252 Contact: Cameo
Smoot, Field and External Affairs Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide
Programs, telephone number: (703) 305-5454; fax number: (703) 305-5884; e-mail
address: smoot.cameo@epa.gov. *
Title: Trifluralin; Proposed Pesticide Tolerance Date of publication: November
24, 2004 Citation: Volume 69, Number 226, Pages 68287-68299 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/November/Day-24/p25941.htm
Purpose This document proposes to establish a tolerance for residues of
trifluralin in mint oil under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA),
as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). The amendment
substantially rewrote section 408 of FFDCA. As a result, the revisions made it
necessary, once again, to establish tolerances on certain commodities, such as
mint oils, that had previously been deemed unnecessary.
Chemical(s): Trifluralin;
Comments: Comments must be received on or before January 24, 2005, identified
by docket identification (ID) number OPP-2004-0142,
Contact: John W. Pates, Jr., Special Review and Reregistration Division
(7508C), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460- 0001; telephone number: (703)
308-8195; e-mail address: pates.john@epa.gov. *
Title: MCPA; Availability of Reregistration Eligibility Decision Document for
Comment Date of publication: November 24, 2004 Citation: Volume 69, Number ,226
Page 68355-68357 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/November/Day-24/p25944.htm
Purpose: This notice announces availability and starts a 60-day public comment
period on the Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) document for the
pesticide active ingredient 4-chloro-2- methylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA). The
RED represents EPA's formal regulatory assessment of the health and
environmental data base of the subject chemical and presents the Agency's
determination regarding which pesticidal uses are eligible for reregistration.
Chemical(s): MCPA; **
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-
2004-0239, must be received on or before
Title: Thiophanate-methyl; Availability of Reregistration Eligibility Decision
Documents for Comment Date of publication: November 24, 2004 Citation: Volume
69, Number 226, Page 68362-68364 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/November/Day-24/p26082.htm
Purpose: This notice announces availability and starts a 60-day public comment
period on the Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) documents for the
pesticide active ingredient thiophanate-methyl.
Chemical(s): Thiophanate-methyl; **
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-
2004-0265, must be received on or before
Title:Captan; Cancer Reclassification; Amendment of ReregistrationEligibility
Decision; Notice of Availability Date of publication: November 24, 2004
Citation: Volume 69, Number 226, Page 68357-68360 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/November/Day-24/p26083.htm
Purpose: This notice announces EPA's modification of certain provisions of the
1999 Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide captan, and
opens a public comment period on these changes. EPA is amending the captan RED
in response to public comments received. EPA has made certain modifications to
the captan RED which are discussed in the ``Amendment to the 1999 Captan RED''
document, which is available in the captan docket and e-docket. This notice
also opens the public comment period announcing the results of the Agency's
reevaluation of captan's cancer classification. The Captan Task Force
voluntarily pursued a process to reclassify captan's initial cancer
classification, as a probable human carcinogen, by supporting a third-party
review of data to support a mode of action determination for captan. Based on the
third-party review and subsequent Agency review, EPA has determined that captan
acts through a non-genotoxic threshold mode of action. Although the!
Agency is issuing a single FR to announce both the amendment to the RED and the
reevaluation of the cancer classification, the change
in cancer classification does not change the risk management conclusions nor
amend the 1999 Captan RED, and is not considered a reregistration action.
Chemical(s): Captan** Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number OPP- 2004-0296, must be received on or before
Title: Cycloate; Availability of Reregistration Eligibility Decision Document
for Comment Date of publication: November 24, 2004 Citation: Volume 69, Number
226, Page 68360-68362 http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/November/Day-24/p26084.htm
Purpose: This notice announces availability and starts a 60-day public comment
period on the Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) document for the
pesticide active ingredient cycloate (S-ethyl cyclohexyl(ethyl)thiocarbamate).
Chemical(s): Cycloate; **
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-
2004-0234, must be received on or before
Title: Certain Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) and Ethylene Thiourea (ETU);
Risk Assessments and Preliminary Risk Reduction Options (Phase 3 of 4-Phase
Process); Notice of Availability Date of publication: November 24, 2004
Citation: Volume 69, Number, 226 Page http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/November/Day-24/p26132.htm68352-68355
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's risk assessments,
preliminary risk reduction options, and related documents for the
ethylenbisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) pesticides mancozeb, maneb, metiram, plus a
common degradate, ethylene thiourea (ETU), and opens a public comment period on
these documents. The public also is encouraged to suggest risk management ideas
or proposals to address the risks identified. EPA is developing a
Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for mancozeb, maneb, metiram, which
will include a common degradate, ETU through a modified, 4-Phase public
participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing
pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions.
Chemical(s): Certain Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) and Ethylene Thiourea
(ETU);**
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-
2004-0078, must be received on or before
*Mailing address for all listed staff: Office of Pesticide Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC
20460
** For information about this pesticide and access to the documents being
announced, see www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/status.htm