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From:
Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
1) PESTICIDE FEDERAL REGISTER ITEMS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 9-13, 2002
2) PESTICIDE FEDERAL REGISTER ITEMS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 16-20,2002
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1) PESTICIDE FEDERAL REGISTER ITEMS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 9-13, 2002
Title: Pesticide tolerance set for carboxin
Date of publication: December 9, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 236, Page 72846-72854
Purpose: Final rule. This regulation establishes a tolerance for combined residues of carboxin (5,6-dihydro-2-methyl-N-phenyl-1,4-oxathiin-3-carboxamide) and its metabolite 5,6-dihydro-3-carboxanilide-2-methyl-1,4-oxathiin-4-oxide (calculated as carboxin) (from treatment of seed prior to planting) in or on canola seed at 0.03 ppm.
Chemical(s): Carboxin (5,6-dihydro-2-methyl-N-phenyl-1,4-oxathiin-3-carboxamide) and its metabolite 5,6-dihydro-3-carboxanilide-2-methyl-1,4-oxathiin-4-oxide (calculated as carboxin)
Comments: This regulation is effective December 9, 2002. Objections and requests for hearings, identified by docket ID number OPP-2002-0326, must be received on or before February 7, 2003.
Contact: Mary Waller, Registration Division (7505C), telephone number: (703) 308-9354; email address:
waller.mary@epa.gov.*
Title: End-use products cancellation order for products containing diazinon
Date of publication: December 9, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 236, Page 72943-72946
Purpose: Notice. This notice announces EPA's cancellation order for the product and use cancellations as requested by companies that hold the registrations of pesticide end-use products containing the active ingredient diazinon. This order follows up an September 11, 2002, notice of receipt of requests for cancellations and or amendments of their diazinon product registrations to terminate all indoor uses, certain agricultural uses and certain outdoor non-agricultural uses.
Chemical(s): Diazinon
Comments: The cancellations are effective December 9, 2002.
Contact: Laura Parsons, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), telephone number: (703) 305-5776; fax number: (703) 308-7042; email address:
parsons.laura@epa.gov.*
Title: Reopening of comment period for the Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision document on diazinon
Date of publication: December 11, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 238, Page 76175-76176
Purpose: Notice of the reopening of a comment period. EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of September 25, 2002, announcing the availability and start of a 60-day public comment period on the Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED) document for the pesticide active ingredient diazinon. This document is reopening the comment period from November 25, 2002 to January 10, 2003.
Chemical(s): Diazinon
Comments: Comments identified by docket ID number OPP-2002-0251 must be received on or before January 10, 2003.
Contact: Laura Parsons, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), telephone number: (703) 305-5776; fax number: (703) 308-7042; email address:
parsons.laura@epa.gov.*
Title: Availability of Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED) document on ethoprop
Date of publication: December 11, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 238, Page 76176-76177
Purpose: Notice. This notice announces the availability of the IRED document for the pesticide active ingredient ethoprop.
Chemical(s): ethoprop
Comments: EPA has established an official public docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number OPP-2002-0269. There is no specific comment period because EPA worked extensively with affected parties to reach the decisions presented in the IRED document. Numerous opportunities for public comment were offered as the IRED was being developed.
Contact: Anthony Britten, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C); telephone number: (703) 308-8179; email address:
britten.anthony@epa.gov.*
Title: Receipt of application for an experimental use permit (EUP) for the plant-incorporated-protectant Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1F and Cry1Ac
Date of publication: December 11, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 238, Page 76177-76179
Purpose: Notice. This notice announces receipt of an application 68467-EUP-A from Dow AgroSciences requesting an EUP for the plant incorporated-protectant Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1F and Cry1Ac. The Agency is soliciting comments on this application.
Chemical(s): Bt Cry1F and Cry 1Ac
Comments: Comments, identified by docket ID number OPP-2002-0323, must be received on or before January 10, 2003.
Contact: Leonard Cole, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511C); telephone number: (703) 305-5412; email address:
cole.leonard@epa.gov.*
Title: Extended comment period for the "Draft Guidance on How to Comply with Data Citation Regulations"
Date of publication: December 11, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 238, Page 76179
Purpose: Notice. EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of November 13, 2002, titled "Draft Guidance on How to Comply with Data Citation Regulations." This notice announces the extension of the comment period for 30 more days, from December 13, 2002 to January 12, 2003.
Chemical(s): N/A
Comments: Comments, identified by docket ID number OPP-2002-0285 must be received on or before January 12, 2003.
Contact: Peter Caulkins, Registration Division (7505C), (703) 305-5447; email address:
caulkins.peter@epa.gov.*
*Mailing address for all listed staff: Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460
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2) PESTICIDE FEDERAL REGISTER ITEMS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 16-20,2002
Title: Exposure Modeling Work Group Public Meeting
Date of publication: December 16, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 241, Page 77059-77060
Purpose: Announces a one-day meeting of the Exposure Modeling Work Group, to be held on December 17, 2002 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This group meets approximately quarterly to discuss current issues in modeling pesticide fate, transport, and exposure to pesticides in support of risk assessments in a regulatory context.
Chemical(s): N/A
Comments: The docket number for this meeting is OPP-2002-0334.
Contact: Michael Barrett, Environmental Fate and Effects Division (7507C), Telephone Number 703.305.6391, email address:
barrett.michael@epa.gov*
Title: Revised Final Health Effects Guidelines (Acute Toxicity Testing-Background and Acute Oral Toxicity)
Date of publication:
Citation: Volume 67, Number 241, Page 77064-77065
Purpose: Announces a unified library for test guidelines issued by the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances for use in testing chemical substances under several federal laws. This notices announces the availability of revised final test guidelines for Series 870?Health Effects Test Guidelines, OPPTS 870.1000 Acute Toxicity Testing-Background and OPPTS 870.1100 Acute Oral Toxicity.
Chemical(s): N/A
Comments: The public docket for this action is OPP-2002-0325.
Contact: The guidelines are available on the EPA Web site at http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/harmonization. Separate contacts are available for TSCA and FIFRA issues. Please see Federal Register notice
(http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA_TOX/2002/December/Day_16/t31612.htm).*
Title: Tetrachlorvinphos Interim Risk Management Decision Document
Date of publication: December 18, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 243, Page 77491-77492
Purpose: Announce availability of Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision for the organophosphate pesticide tetrachlorvinphos. See
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/status.htm for information on this pesticide.
Chemical(s): Tetrachlorvinphos
Comments: The docket number for this action is OPP-2002-0295. There is no specific comment period because EPA worked extensively with affected parties to reach the decisions presented in the IRED document. Numerous opportunities for public comment were offered as the IRED was being developed.
Contact: Demson Fuller, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), Telephone
Number: 703.308.8062, email address: fuller.demson@epa.gov*
Title: Naled Interim Risk Management Decision
Date of publication: December 19, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 244, Page 77783-77784
Purpose: Announce availability of Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision for the organophosphate pesticide naled. See
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/status.htm for information on this pesticide.
Chemical(s): Naled
Comments: The docket number for this action is OPP-2002-0307. There is no specific comment period because EPA worked extensively with affected parties to reach the decisions presented in the IRED document. Numerous opportunities for public comment were offered as the IRED was being developed.
Contact: Tom Myers, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C),
Telephone Number: 703.308.8589, email address: myers.tom@epa.gov*
*Mailing address for all listed staff: Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460
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