Notice2025-22935
Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Active Ingredients October 2025
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Published
December 16, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
This document announces the Agency's receipt of and solicits comment on applications to register pesticide products containing active ingredients not included in any currently registered pesticide products. The Agency is providing this notice in accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). EPA uses the month and year in the title to identify when the Agency complied the applications identified in this notice of receipt. Unit II. of this document identifies certain applications received in 2024 and 2025 that are currently being evaluated by EPA, along with information about each application, including when it was received, who submitted the application, and the purpose of the application.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58243-58244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-22935]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-0024; FRL-12473-10-OCSPP]
Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New
Active Ingredients October 2025
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of receipt and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: This document announces the Agency's receipt of and solicits
comment on applications to register pesticide products containing
active ingredients not included in any currently registered pesticide
products. The Agency is providing this notice in accordance with the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). EPA uses
the month and year in the title to identify when the Agency complied
the applications identified in this notice of receipt. Unit II. of this
document identifies certain applications received in 2024 and 2025 that
are currently being evaluated by EPA, along with information about each
application, including when it was
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received, who submitted the application, and the purpose of the
application.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 15, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by the docket
identification (ID) number and the EPA File Symbol or the EPA
Registration Number of interest as shown in Unit II. of this document,
online at <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 Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Additional
instructions on commenting and 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: Each application summary in Unit II.
specifies a contact division. The appropriate division contacts are
identified as follows:
<bullet> BPPD (Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division)
(Mail Code 7511M); Shannon Borges; main telephone number: (202) 566-
1400; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#561406061210041839223f3533251633263778313920"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b8fae8e8fcfeeaf6d7ccd1dbddcbf8ddc8d996dfd7ce">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Executive Summary
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action provides information that is directed to the public in
general.
B. What is the Agency's authority for taking this action?
EPA is taking this action pursuant to section 3(c)(4) of the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 U.S.C.
136a(c)(4), and 40 CFR 152.102.
C. What action is the Agency taking?
EPA is hereby providing notice of receipt and opportunity to
comment on applications to register pesticide products containing
active ingredients not included in any currently registered pesticide
products. Notice of receipt of these applications does not imply a
decision by the Agency on these applications. The applications
identified in this document were received since the last notice that
was issued and are currently being evaluated by EPA in accordance with
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). For
actions being evaluated under EPA's public participation process for
registration actions, there will be an additional opportunity for
public comment on the proposed decisions. Please see EPA's public
participation website for additional information on this process
(<a href="https://www.epa.gov/registration/public-participation-process-registration-actions">https://www.epa.gov/registration/public-participation-process-registration-actions</a>).
D. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI to EPA through <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> or email. If you wish to include CBI in your
comment, please follow the applicable instructions at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets#rules">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets#rules</a> and clearly mark the
information that you claim to be CBI. In addition to one complete
version of the comment that includes CBI, a copy of the comment without
CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information
marked as CBI 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//epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov//epa-dockets</a>.
II. Registration Applications Received
This unit provides the following information about the applications
received: The EPA File Symbol or Registration number(s); EPA docket ID
number for the application; Name and address of the applicant; Name of
the active ingredient, product type and proposed uses; and the division
to contact for that application. Additional information about the
application may also be available in the docket for the application as
identified in this unit.
<bullet> File Symbol: 89186-G. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-
2566. Applicant: ConidioTec, LLC, 2610 Sleepy Hollow Drive, State
College, PA 16803. Product name: Aprehend RTU. Active ingredient:
Microbial Insecticide--Beauveria bassiana Strain I93-825 at 2%.
Proposed use: For indoor use only for the control of bed bugs, bat
bugs, and swallow bugs. Date of Receipt: May 30, 2024. Contact: BPPD.
<bullet> File Symbol: 100343-E. Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-
2400. Receipt Date: January 3, 2025. Applicant: Interregional Research
Project Number 4 (IR-4), IR-4 Project Headquarters, North Carolina
State University, 1730 Varsity Drive, Venture IV, Suite 210, Raleigh,
NC 27606. Product name: Cuc-GUARD. Active ingredient: Viricide;
Attenuated Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus Strain ON-BM3 at
0.00155%. Proposed Use: For control of Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic
Virus on cucumber. Date of Receipt: January 3, 2025. Contact: BPPD.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
Dated: December 4, 2025.
Edward Messina,
Director, Office of Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 2025-22935 Filed 12-15-25; 8:45 am]
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