Notice of Receipt of Requests for Amendments To Delete Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-34067; FRL 4920-7]

Notice of Receipt of Requests for Amendments To Delete Uses in

Certain Pesticide Registrations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide,

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a

notice of receipt of request for amendment by registrants to delete

uses in certain pesticide registrations.

DATES: Unless a request is withdrawn, the Agency will approve these use

deletions and the deletions will become effective on February 28, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: James A. Hollins, Office of

Pesticide Programs (7502C), Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. Office location for commercial

courier delivery and telephone number: Room 216, Crystal Mall No. 2,

1921 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202, (703) 305-5761.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA, provides that a registrant of a pesticide

product may at any time request that any of its pesticide registrations

be amended to delete one or more uses. The Act further provides that,

before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of

any such request in the Federal Register. Thereafter, the Administrator

may approve such a request.

II. Intent to Delete Uses

This notice announces receipt by the Agency of applications from

registrants to delete uses in the 13 pesticide registrations listed in

the following Table 1. These registrations are listed by registration

number, product names/active ingredients and the specific uses deleted.

Users of these products who desire continued use on crops or sites

being deleted should contact the applicable registrant before February

28, 1995 to discuss withdrawal of the applications for amendment. This

90-day period will also permit interested members of the public to

intercede with registrants prior to the Agency approval of the

deletion.

Table 1.--Registrations With Requests for Amendments To Delete Uses in

Certain Pesticide Registrations

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Active Delete From

EPA Reg No. Product Name Ingredient Label

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000016-00019........ DRAGON 50% Malathion In homes

000299-00110........ Martin's 50% Malathion Beef cattle,

Malathion sheep, goats,

Concentrate hogs,

chickens,

turkeys, range

treatment for

poultry, dogs,

plums, apples,

pears, melons,

household pets

000299-00166........ Martin's 57% Malathion Indoor fly

Malathion 5E control,

residual spray

for bugged

flour &

packaged

cereals,

livestock uses

(beef cattle,

horses, hogs,

sheep, goat

poultry),

stored grain &

grains going

into storage

000572-00145........ Malathion 57% Malathion Animal

E.C. buildings,

poultry

(chickens

ducks, geese,

turkeys),

poultry

houses, sheep,

goats, swine,

roost paint

and stored

products

(barley, corn,

grain sorghum,

oats, rice,

rye,

wheatgrains &

field or

garden seeds)

000572-00285........ Vegetable-Tomato Piperonyl Greenhouses

Insect Spray butoxide

(Pyrethrins)

009404-00014........ Ethion & Oil Ethion Ornamental

Spray plants

010370-00165........ Di-Syston 2% Disulfoton Spinach

Granular

034704-00119........ Clean Crop Malathion Almonds,

Malathion 8EC apples, dates,

Insecticide cranberries,

filberts,

melons, pears,

plums, prunes,

pumpkins,

quinces, sugar

beets, indoor

uses (animal

premises,

homes, meat

processing

plants),

bagged citrus

pulp, stored

commodities

(wheat, oats,

rice corn,

rye, barley,

grain sorghum,

sunflowers,

peanuts,

almonds, field

and garden

seeds)

034704-00474........ Cythion 8 Malathion Almonds,

Aquamul apples,

asparagus,

carrots,

dates,

cranberries,

filberts,

melons,

peanuts,

pears,

pineapples,

plums, prunes,

pumpkins,

safflower,

soybeans,

strawberries

(as a soil

application),

sugar beets

045385-00054........ Dursban 12 Chlorpyrifos Ornamental

Insecticide plants

045385-00065........ Chem-Tox Malathion Homes, farm &

Malathion 3% dairy barns,

storage &

warehouse

areas,

commercial

eating

establishments

, food

processing

plants

045385-00066........ Chem-Tox MAL 50- Malathion Homes,

OS apartments,

garages,

warehouses,

institutions,

food

processing

plants,

restaurants,

farm

buildings,

dairy barns

066222-00001........ Captan 50 WP Captan Dichondra in

California

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The following Table 2 includes the names and addresses of record

for all registrants of the products in Table 1, in sequence by EPA

company number.

Table 2.--Registrants Requesting Amendments To Delete Uses in Certain

Pesticide Registrations

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Company

No. Company Name and Address

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000016.. Dragon Corp., P.O. Box 7311, Roanoke, VA 24019.

000299.. C.J. Martin Company, 606 W. Main St., Nacogdoches, TX 75961.

000572.. Rockland Corp., P.O. Box 809, West Caldwell, NJ 07006.

009404.. Sunniland Corp., P.O. Box 8001, Sanford, FL 32771.

010370.. Roussel Uclaf Corp., 95 Chestnut Ridge Road, Montvale, NJ

07645.

034704.. Platte Chemical Co., P.O. Box 667, Greeley, CO 80632.

045385.. Chem-Tox, Inc., 481 Scotland Road, McHenry, IL 60050.

066222.. Makhteshim-Agan of North America Inc., 551 Fifth Ave., Suite

1100, New York, NY 10176.

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III. Existing Stocks Provisions

The Agency has authorized registrants to sell or distribute product

under the previously approved labeling for a period of 18 months after

approval of the revision, unless other restrictions have been imposed,

as in special review actions.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests, Product

registrations.

Dated: November 14, 1994.

Daniel M. Barolo,

Director, Office of Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 94-28979 Filed 11-29-94; 8:45 am]

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