[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 97 (Monday, May 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22841-22843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-10447]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0091; FRL-9993-24]


Product Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide Registrations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA's order for the cancellations, 
voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency, of 
the products listed in Table 1 of Unit II, pursuant to the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
    This cancellation order follows a March 25, 2019 Federal Register 
Notice of Receipt of Requests from the registrants listed in Table 2 of 
Unit II, to voluntarily cancel these product registrations. In the 
March 25, 2019 notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order 
implementing the cancellations, unless the Agency received substantive 
comments within the 30-day comment period that would merit its further 
review of these requests, or unless the registrants withdrew their 
requests. The Agency received two anonymous public comments on the 
notice but none merited its further review of the requests.
    Further, the registrants did not withdraw their requests. 
Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order 
granting the requested cancellations. Any distribution, sale, or use of 
the products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in 
accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks 
provisions.

DATES: The cancellations are effective May 20, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Green, Information 
Technology and Resources Management Division (7502P), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 347-0367; 
email address: green.christopher@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of 
interest to a wide range of stakeholders including environmental, human 
health, and agricultural advocates; the chemical industry; pesticide 
users; and members of the public interested in the sale,

[[Page 22842]]

distribution, or use of pesticides. Since others also may be 
interested, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific 
entities that may be affected by this action.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    The docket for this action, identified by docket identification 
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0091, is available at http://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory 
Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency 
Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public 
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPP 
Docket is (703) 305-5805. Please review the visitor instructions and 
additional information about the docket available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

II. What action is the Agency taking?

    This notice announces the cancellation, as requested by 
registrants, of products registered under FIFRA section 3 (7 U.S.C. 
136a). These registrations are listed in sequence by registration 
number in Table 1 of this unit.

                                         Table 1--Product Cancellations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Registration No.           Company No.           Product name                  Active ingredients
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
100-1341.......................             100  Meridian 0.20G..............  Thiamethoxam.
100-1346.......................             100  Meridian 0.14G..............  Thiamethoxam.
100-1399.......................             100  Avicta Complete Corn 500....  Azoxystrobin; Metalaxyl-M;
                                                                                Fludioxonil; Thiabendazole;
                                                                                Abamectin & Thiamethoxam.
100-1426.......................             100  THX_MXM_FDL_TBZ FS..........  Thiamethoxam; Metalaxyl-M;
                                                                                Fludioxonil & Thiabendazole.
100-1449.......................             100  Adage Deluxe................  Thiamethoxam; Metalaxyl-M;
                                                                                Fludioxonil & Azoxystrobin.
100-1450.......................             100  Adage Premier...............  Thiamethoxam; Metalaxyl-M;
                                                                                Fludioxonil; Azoxystrobin &
                                                                                Thiabendazole.
264-1125.......................             264  Emesto Quantum..............  Clothianidin & Penflufen.
59639-164......................           59639  V-10170 0.25 G GL             Clothianidin.
                                                  Insecticide.
59639-176......................           59639  Inovate Seed Protectant.....  Clothianidin; Metalaxyl &
                                                                                Ipconazole.
59639-187......................           59639  Inovate Neutral Seed          Clothianidin; Metalaxyl &
                                                  Protectant.                   Ipconazole.
59639-214......................           59639  Aloft GC G Insecticide......  Bifenthrin & Clothianidin.
72155-95.......................           72155  Flower, Rose & Shrub Care     Clothianidin & Imidacloprid.
                                                  III.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Table 2 of this unit includes the names and addresses of record for 
all registrants of the products in Table 1 of this unit, in sequence by 
EPA company number. This number corresponds to the first part of the 
EPA registration numbers of the products listed in Table 1 of this 
unit.

               Table 2--Registrants of Cancelled Products
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     EPA company No.                 Company name and address
------------------------------------------------------------------------
100.....................  Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, P.O. Box 18300,
                           Greensboro, NC 27419-8300.
264.....................  Bayer CropScience, LP 2 T.W. Alexander Drive,
                           P.O. Box 12014, Research Triangle Park, NC
                           27709.
59639...................  Valent U.S.A., LLC, 1600 Riviera Avenue, Suite
                           200, Walnut Creek, CA 94596-8025.
72155...................  Bayer Advanced, A Business Unit of Bayer
                           CropScience, LP 2 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O.
                           Box 12014, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

III. Summary of Public Comments Received and Agency Response to 
Comments

    The Agency received two anonymous public comments on the notice, 
but didn't merit its further review of the requests. For this reason, 
the Agency does not believe that the comments submitted during the 
comment period merit further review or a denial of the requests for 
voluntary cancellation.

IV. Cancellation Order

    Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f) (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)), EPA hereby 
approves the requested cancellations of the registrations identified in 
Table 1 of Unit II. Accordingly, the Agency hereby orders that the 
product registrations identified in Table 1 of Unit II, are canceled. 
The effective date of the cancellations that are the subject of this 
notice is May 20, 2019. Any distribution, sale, or use of existing 
stocks of the products identified in Table 1 of Unit II, in a manner 
inconsistent with any of the provisions for disposition of existing 
stocks set forth in Unit VI, will be a violation of FIFRA.

V. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?

    Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136d(f)(1)) provides that a 
registrant of a pesticide product may at any time request that any of 
its pesticide registrations be canceled or amended to terminate one or 
more uses. FIFRA further provides that, before acting on the request, 
EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any such request in the Federal 
Register. Thereafter, following the public comment period, the EPA 
Administrator may approve such a request. The notice of receipt for 
this action was published for comment in the Federal Register of March 
25, 2019 (84 FR 11087) (FRL-9990-87). The comment period closed on 
April 24, 2019.

VI. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks

    Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products 
which are currently in the United States and which were packaged, 
labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the 
cancellation action.

[[Page 22843]]

The existing stocks provisions for the products subject to this order 
are as follows.
    The registrants may continue to sell and distribute existing stocks 
of products listed in Table 1 of Unit II, until May 20, 2020, which is 
1 year after the publication of the Cancellation Order in the Federal 
Register. Thereafter, the registrants are prohibited from selling or 
distributing products listed in Table 1, except for export in 
accordance with FIFRA section 17 (7 U.S.C. 136o), or proper disposal. 
Persons other than the registrants may sell, distribute, or use 
existing stocks of products listed in Table 1 of Unit II, until 
existing stocks are exhausted, provided that such sale, distribution, 
or use is consistent with the terms of the previously approved labeling 
on, or that accompanied, the canceled products.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

    Dated: May 8, 2019.
Delores Barber,
Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division, 
Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2019-10447 Filed 5-17-19; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6560-50-P


