Proposed Rule2025-00251
Pesticides; Petition Seeking Rulemaking To Modify Labeling Requirements for Pesticides and Devices
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Published
January 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of and seeking public comment on a petition received from the Attorneys General of the States of Nebraska, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, and South Dakota requesting the Agency initiate rulemaking to amend the existing regulations under the Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act (FIFRA). The Attorneys General believe the Agency should modify its requirements such that any state labeling requirements inconsistent with EPA's findings and conclusions from its human health risk assessment on human health effects, such as a pesticide's likelihood to cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm, constitute misbranding.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 7037-7038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00251]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0562; FRL-12480-01-OCSPP]
40 CFR Part 156
Pesticides; Petition Seeking Rulemaking To Modify Labeling
Requirements for Pesticides and Devices
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Petition for rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the
availability of and seeking public comment on a petition received from
the Attorneys General of the States of Nebraska, Iowa, Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana,
Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, and South Dakota
requesting the Agency initiate rulemaking to amend the existing
regulations under the Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide
Act (FIFRA). The Attorneys General believe the Agency should modify its
requirements such that any state labeling requirements inconsistent
with EPA's findings and conclusions from its human health risk
assessment on human health effects, such as a pesticide's likelihood to
cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm, constitute
misbranding.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 20, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0562, by one of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute.
<bullet> Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket
Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460-0001.
<bullet> Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the
instructions at <a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html">http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html</a>.
Additional instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along
with more information about dockets generally, is available at <a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles Smith, Director, Registration
Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-
0001; main telephone number: (202) 566-1030; email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#590b1d1f0b17362d303a3c2a193c2938773e362f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81d3c5c7d3cfeef5e8e2e4f2c1e4f1e0afe6eef7">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 pesticide
registrants, environmental, human health, and agricultural advocates,
pesticide users, and members of the public interested in the use of
pesticides. This listing is not intended to be exhaustive but rather
provides a guide for readers regarding entities likely to be affected
by his action. Because others may also be interested, the Agency has
not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be
affected by this action.
B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through
<a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a> or email. Clearly mark the part or all of the
information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or
CD-ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM as
CBI and then identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the
specific information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one
complete version of the comment that includes information claimed as
CBI, a copy of the comment that does not contain the information
claimed as CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket.
Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments. When preparing and submitting
your comments, see the commenting tips at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
II. What action is the Agency taking?
EPA requests public comment on a petition received from several
state Attorneys General that asks EPA to amend 40 CFR 156.10(a)(5) by
adding a paragraph (xi) to include the following as an example of
statements or representations in the labeling which constitute
misbranding: ``Statements or conclusions regarding the product's human
health effects, including the likelihood of causing cancer, birth
defects, or reproductive harm, that are different from EPA's findings
and
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conclusions stated in its human health risk assessment conducted during
the registration review of the product's principal active
ingredients.''
A copy of the petition is available in the docket.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
Dated: December 23, 2024.
Edward Messina,
Director, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2025-00251 Filed 1-17-25; 8:45 am]
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