Notice2024-31469
Draft Pesticide Registration Notice; Establishment of a Plan To Track the Adoption of Bilingual Labeling on End Use Pesticide Product Labels; Notice of Availability and Request for Comment
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Published
January 2, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing the availability of and seeking public comment on a draft Pesticide Registration Notice (PR Notice) entitled "Establishment of a Plan to Track the Adoption of Bilingual Labeling on End Use Pesticide Product Labels." PR Notices are issued by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) to inform pesticide registrants and other interested persons about important policies, procedures, and registration related decisions, and serve to provide guidance to pesticide registrants and OPP personnel. The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022 (PRIA 5) requires EPA to "develop and implement, and make publicly available, a plan for tracking the adoption of the bilingual labeling." This draft PR Notice provides guidance on how the Agency plans to track the adoption of bilingual labeling.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 1 (Thursday, January 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 99-100]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31469]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0438; FRL-12231-01-OCSPP]
Draft Pesticide Registration Notice; Establishment of a Plan To
Track the Adoption of Bilingual Labeling on End Use Pesticide Product
Labels; Notice of Availability and Request for Comment
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is
announcing the availability of and seeking public comment on a draft
Pesticide Registration Notice (PR Notice) entitled ``Establishment of a
Plan to Track the Adoption of Bilingual Labeling on End Use Pesticide
Product Labels.'' PR Notices are issued by the Office of Pesticide
Programs (OPP) to inform pesticide registrants and other interested
persons about important policies, procedures, and registration related
decisions, and serve to provide guidance to pesticide registrants and
OPP personnel. The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022 (PRIA
5) requires EPA to ``develop and implement, and make publicly
available, a plan for tracking the adoption of the bilingual
labeling.'' This draft PR Notice provides guidance on how the Agency
plans to track the adoption of bilingual labeling.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0438, through the <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to
be CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Additional instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along
with more information about dockets generally, is available at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Bartow, Office of Chemical
Safety and Pollution Prevention (7508M), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone
number: (202) 566-2280; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f7b8a7a7959e9b9e999082969b9b9695929b84b7928796d9909881"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e1aeb1b183888d888f8694808d8d8083848d92a1849180cf868e97">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the general public and may be of
specific interest to persons or entities that register pesticide
products. Since a potentially broad range of entities may be interested
in this action, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the
specific entities that may be interested. If you have any questions
regarding the applicability of this guidance to a particular entity or
registration action, contact the person listed under FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
II. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?
EPA is issuing this guidance pursuant to its authority under PRIA 5
which requires the Agency to develop, implement, and make publicly
available, a plan for tracking the adoption of bilingual labeling by
December 29, 2024.
III. What action is the Agency taking?
EPA is announcing the availability of and seeking public comment on
a draft PR Notice entitled ``Establishment of a Plan to Track the
Adoption of Bilingual Labeling on End Use Pesticide Product Labels.''
PR Notices are issued by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) to
inform pesticide registrants and other interested persons about
important policies, procedures, and registration related decisions, and
serve to provide guidance to pesticide registrants and OPP personnel.
The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022 (PRIA 5) requires
EPA to ``develop and implement, and make publicly available, a plan for
tracking the adoption of the bilingual labeling.'' Currently, bilingual
labeling is implemented through a non-notification process (see PR
Notice 98-10, entitled ``Notifications, Non-Notifications and Minor
Formulation Amendments'' dated
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October 22, 1998). The non-notification process means that a product
label may be updated with Spanish translations without notifying EPA
(or EPA reviewing the label), if that is the only change being made to
the label. Non-notification label changes are not systematically
tracked by EPA. However, given the new bilingual labeling requirements
in PRIA 5, EPA has developed a plan for tracking the adoption of the
bilingual labeling. The draft PR Notice provides guidance on how the
Agency plans to track the adoption of bilingual labeling. Since Spanish
is the primary language for most American farmworkers, this effort
advances environmental justice by making health and safety information
on pesticide labels more accessible, fostering a better understanding
and compliance with label instructions.
IV. Do PR Notices contain binding requirements?
The draft PR Notice discussed in this document is intended to
provide guidance to EPA personnel and decision makers and to pesticide
registrants. While the requirements in the statutes and Agency
regulations are binding on EPA and the applicants, the PR Notice is not
binding on either EPA or pesticide registrants, and EPA may depart from
the guidance where circumstances warrant and without prior notice.
Likewise, pesticide registrants may assert that the guidance is not
appropriate generally or not applicable to a specific pesticide or
situation.
V. Are these forms approved under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)?
According to the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., an agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a
collection of information that requires approval under the PRA, unless
it has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and
displays a currently valid OMB control number. The information
collection activities described in this draft PR Notice are being
addressed in the new Information Collection Requests (ICR) entitled
``Pesticide Product, Spanish Labeling Tracking,'' identified as EPA ICR
No. 7795.01, that will be made available for public review and comment
in a forthcoming edition of the Federal Register. EPA intends to
consider public comments on that ICR, along with comments on the draft
PR Notice, before submitting a revised ICR to OMB for review and
approval under the PRA, and issuing a final PR Notice.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
Dated: December 26, 2024.
Michal Freedhoff,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2024-31469 Filed 12-31-24; 8:45 am]
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