IR-4. Pesticide Petitions PPs 6E7125, 6E7126, 6E7127 and 6E7128. Proposal to establish a
tolerance for residues of the insecticide bifenthrin in or on food commodities

There is a practical analytical method for detecting and measuring levels of bifenthrin in or on food with a limit of detection that allows monitoring of food with residues at or above the levels set in these tolerances gas chromatography with electron capture detection (GC/ECD).

R-4. Pesticide Petition PP 7E7227. Proposal to establish a tolerance for residues of the insecticide bifenthrin in or on food commodities:

There is a practical analytical method for detecting and measuring levels of bifenthrin in or on food with a limit of detection that allows monitoring of food with residues at or above the levels set in these tolerances GC/ECD.

IR-4. Pesticide tolerance. FINAL RULE.
-- Coriander, dried leaves at 25 ppm
-- Coriander, leaves at.6.0 ppm
-- Coriander, seed at 5.0 ppm
-- Okra at 0.50 ppm
-- Turnip, greens at 3.5 ppm

-- Pea and bean, dried shelled, expect soybean, subgroup 6C at 0.15 ppm

This subgroup includes 27 commodities. bean, adzuki • bean, broad dry • bean, dry • bean, kidney • bean, lablab • bean, lima dry • bean, moth • bean, mung • bean, navy • bean, pink • bean, pinto • bean, rice • bean, tepary • bean, urd • catjang • chickpea • cowpea • guar • lentil • lupin, grain • lupin, sweet • pea, blackeyed • pea, crowder • pea, field • pea, field seed • pea, pigeon • pea, southern

-- Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 5B ...... 3.5 ppm

This subgroup includes 8 commodities: broccoli raab • cabbage, chinese bok choy • collards • kale • mizuna • mustard greens • mustard spinach • rape greens

-- Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C ...... 0.05 ppm

This subgroup includes 22 commodities: arracacha • arrowroot • artichoke, chinese • artichoke, jerusalem • canna, edible • cassava • chayote root • chufa • dasheen • ginger • leren • potato • potato culls • potato granules flakes • potato peel, wet • potato processed potato waste • potato, specialty • sweet potato • tanier • turmeric • yam bean • yam, true

Notice of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations.

Pesticide Emergency Exemptions; Agency Decisions and State and Federal Agency Crisis Declarations.
-- Mississippi: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control beetle complex; March 27, 2006 to September 30, 2006.
-- North Carolina: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control beetle complex; March 27, 2006 to October 31, 2006.

IR-4. Pesticide petitions: PP 2E6451, 3E6882, 2E6492, 2E6423, and 4E6843.
in and/or on:
-- cilantro at 5.0 ppm (4E6843).
-- turnip greens at 3.0 ppm (2E6451)
-- okra at 0.5 ppm (2E2649)

-- leafy brassica greens, subgroup 5B at 3.0 ppm (2E6451)

This subgroup includes 8 commodities.
broccoli raab • cabbage, chinese bok choy • collards • kale • mizuna • mustard greens • mustard spinach • rape greens

-- tuberous and corm vegetables, subgroup 1C at 0.1 ppm (3E2688)

This subgroup includes 22 commodities.
arracacha • arrowroot • artichoke, chinese • artichoke, jerusalem • canna, edible • cassava • chayote root • chufa • dasheen • ginger • leren • potato • potato culls • potato granules flakes • potato peel, wet • potato processed potato waste • potato, specialty • sweet potato • tanier • turmeric • yam bean • yam, true

-- dried shelled pea and bean (except soybean), subgroup 6C at 0.1 ppm (2E6423)

This subgroup includes 27 commodities.
bean, adzuki • bean, broad dry • bean, dry • bean, kidney • bean, lablab • bean, lima dry • bean, moth • bean, mung • bean, navy • bean, pink • bean, pinto • bean, rice • bean, tepary • bean, urd • catjang • chickpea • cowpea • guar • lentil • lupin, grain • lupin, sweet • pea, blackeyed • pea, crowder • pea, field • pea, field seed • pea, pigeon • pea, southern

Pesticide Emergency Exemptions:

• Louisiana. Specific: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potato to control soil beetle complex; April 29, 2005 to November 30, 2005. Contact: (Andrea Conrath).
• Mississipi. EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potato to control soil beetle complex; April 29, 2005 to September 30, 2005. Contact: (Andrea Conrath).
• North Carolina. Specific: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potato to control beetle complex; April 1, 2005 to September 30, 2005. Contact: (Libby Pemberton).

Cancellation of Pesticides for Non-payment of Year 2005 Registration Maintenance Fees.

Four Pesticide Emergency Exemptions.
• Arkansas - EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control beetle complex; April 29, 2004 to November 30, 2004. Contact: (Stacey Groce)
• Louisiana - EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control beetle complex; May 20, 2004 to November 30, 2004. Contact: (Stacey Groce).
• Mississippi - EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control beetle complex; April 29, 2004 to September 30, 2004. Contact: (Stacey Groce).
• North Carolina - On June 2, 2004, for the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control wireworm. This program is expected to end on September 30, 2004. Contact: (Libby Pemberton).

Pesticide Emergency Exemptions.
Oregon - EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on orchardgrass grown for seed to control the orchardgrass billbug; March 30, 2004 to November 15, 2004.

Announcement: Longitudinal Study of Young Children's Exposures in their Homes to Selected Pesticides, Phthalates, Brominated Flame Retardants, and Perfluorinated Chemicals (A Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study--CHEERS).

Abstract: The U.S. EPA's Office of Research and Development's National Exposure Research Laboratory proposes to conduct a two-year longitudinal field measurement study of young children's (aged 0 to 3 years) potential exposures to current-use pesticides and selected phthalates, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and perfluorinated compounds that may be found in residential environments. The study will be conducted in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida over a two-year period from 2004 to 2006. Sixty young children will be recruited into this study in two cohorts: (1) infants recruited into the study soon after birth, and, (2) children recruited into the study at approximately 12 months of age. ...

FMC; IR-4. New Pesticide Tolerances. FINAL RULE. This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of bifenthrin in or on

-- Category C (possible human) carcinogen, primarily on the basis of the mouse carcinogenicity study in which the high-dose males (81.3 mg/kg/day) showed a highly significant increased incidence of urinary bladder tumors. Other findings in the mouse study included a dose-related trend of increased combined incidences of adenoma and adenocarcinoma of the liver (males only), and increased incidences of bronchioalveolar adenomas and adenocarcinomas of the lung in females at some, but not all, doses relative to their controls.
-- Acute Neurotoxicity Study in Rats. LOAEL = 70.3 mg/kg/day. based on observations of mortality (females only), clinical and functional operational battery (FOB) findings and differences in motor activity.
-- 1-Year Oral Study in Dogs. LOAEL = 2.7 mg/kg/day based on observations of increased incidence of tremors in both sexes.
-- 90-Day Oral Study in Dogs. LOAEL = 4.42 mg ai/kg/ day based on observations of increased incidence of tremors in both sexes.
-- 21-Day Dermal Study in Rats. LOAEL = 93 mg/kg/day based on observations of clinical signs (staggered gait and exaggerated hindlimb flexion).

Requests to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations. EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of request by registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations. Unless a request is withdrawn by October 13, 2003, or May 16, 2003 for EPA Registration Numbers: 003008-00021, 075341-00001, and 075341-00007, orders will be issued canceling these registrations.

Pesticide Emergency Exemption.

Texas. Specific: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on citrus to control weevils; November 22, 2002 to November 22, 2003.

Extension of Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions. EPA has authorized under FIFRA section 18 the use of bifenthrin on citrus for control of weevils in Texas and Florida. This regulation extends time-limited tolerances for residues of the insecticide bifenthrin in or on citrus, dried pulp and citrus, oil at 0.3 ppm for an additional 2-year period. This tolerance will expire and is revoked on December 31, 2004. A time- limited tolerance was originally published in the Federal Register of December 16, 1998 (63 FR 69200) (FRL-6048-1).

EPA approved the use of Bifenthrin for 5 Emergency Exemptions.

-- Kansas: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sorghum grown for seed to control banks grass mite; August 16, 2002 to September 30, 2002.
-- Louisiana: Crisis: On May 3, 2002, for the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control soil beetles and sweet potato weevils. This program is expected to end on November 30, 2002.
-- Louisiana: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control soil beetles and sweet potato weevils; July 19, 2002 to November 30, 2002.
-- Mississippi: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sweet potatoes to control soil beetles; July 19, 2002 to September 30, 2002.
-- Texas: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on sorghum grown for seed to control banks grass mite; August 16, 2002 to August 16, 2003.

Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions for time-limited tolerances for residues of bifenthrin in or on orchardgrass hay and forage at 0.05 ppm. Final Rule. The tolerance will expire and is revoked on June 30, 2004.

Oregon produces nearly all of the nation's orchardgrass seed, which is primarily used as a high protein pasture grass. No orchardgrass residue data were submitted for this request. The proposed use rate of bifenthrin for orchardgrass is approximately the same as that registered for use on alfalfa grown for seed. Therefore, the data from alfalfa was translated to orchardgrass for this section 18 use. The established tolerances for meat and milk commodities are adequate to cover any residues which may result from this section 18 use... EPA concluded that exposure to bifenthrin from food will utilize 60% of the acute population adjusted dose (aPAD) for the U.S. population, 40% for females 13 years and older, 75% for all infants 1 year old, and 99.7% of the aPAD for children 1 to 6 years old. In addition, despite the potential for acute dietary exposure to bifenthrin in drinking water, after calculating drinking water levels of concern (DWLOCs) and comparing them to conservative model estimated environmental concentrations (EECs) of bifenthrin in surface and ground water, EPA does not expect the aggregate exposure to exceed 100% of the aPAD...

Bifenthrin has been classified as a Group C chemical (possible human carcinogen) based upon urinary bladder tumors in mice.

Conditions. One application may be made. A maximum of 0.10 pound of active ingredient may be applied per acre using ground equipment. Bifenthrin is not to be applied within 30 days of grazing, feeding, or harvesting (cutting) forage or hay.

• Seven Pesticide Petitions to establish new tolerances:
• FMC: PP 2F6390 proposes a tolerance in or on food products in food handling establishments at 0.01 ppm.
• FMC: PP 6F3454 proposes a tolerance in or on the raw agricultural commodity pears at 1.0 ppm, in or on almond hulls at 2 ppm and in or on the tree nuts crop group at 0.05 ppm.
• IR-4: PP 6E4630 proposes a tolerance for the leaf petioles subgroup (4B) (includes cardoon, celery, Chinese celery, celtuce, Florence fennel, rhubarb, Swiss chard) at 2.0 ppm.
• IR-4: PP 0E6157 proposes a tolerance for the herb subgroup (19A) at 0.05 ppm.
• IR-4: PP 1E6330 proposes a tolerance for tomato at 0.15 ppm.
• IR-4: PP 2E6402 proposes a tolerance for spinach at 0.2 ppm.
• Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S.: 1E6234 request to establish an import tolerance for residues of bifenthrin in or on carambola (starfruit) at 1.0 ppm. Docket control number PF-1069

• Emergency Exemptions:
• Texas: Crisis: On March 21, 2001, for the use of bifenthrin on citrus to control weevils. This program is expected to end on November 14, 2002.
• Texas: Specific: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on citrus to control weevils; November 14, 2001 to November 14, 2002.

• 3 Pesticide Emergency Exemptions: EPA authorized use in:
• Florida: on citrus to control diaprepes root weevil; March 2, 2001 to March 2, 2002.
• Oklahoma: on peanuts to control spider mites; July 15, 2001 to October 30, 2001.
• Texas: on sorghum grown for seed to control Banks grass mite; August 1, 2001 to August 1, 2002.

• Public Report on Minor Use Pesticides; Notice of Availability.
• "Minor uses of pesticides are those for which the total U.S.acreage for a particular crop is less than 300,000 acres or those for which the use does not provide sufficient economic incentive to support its registration." - see Report cited in the Federal Register which includes the following fluorinated pesticides:
• Bifenthrin Insecticide (Trade names Capture, Brigade, Talstar, Biflex)
• Diflubenzuron Insect Growth Regulator Insecticide (Trade name Dimilin)
• Fludioxonil Fungicide (Trade names Maxim, Medallion)

• Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions for residues in or on Sweet Potato at 0.05 ppm. FINAL RULE. This regulation is effective September 27, 2001. Objections and requests for hearings must be received by EPA on or before November 26, 2001.
• Study and Toxicological Effects:
• Developmental toxicity, Rats - tremors in dams during & post dosing.
• Chronic oral, dogs - tremors in both sexes.
• Carcinogenicity, Mice - urinary bladder tumors in male mice.

FMC - Pesticide Tolerance Petition for residues in or on bananas at 0.1 ppm.

• IR-4 * - Pesticide Tolerance Petitions; for residues of in or on the Raw Agricultural Commodities as follows:
• PP 9E6016 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for grape at 0.2 ppm.
• PP 9E6030 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for peppers at 0.5 ppm.
• PP 9E6031 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for head lettuce at 2.0 ppm.
• PP 9E6034 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for the caneberry subgroup at 1.0 ppm.

FMC - Request to Voluntarily Cancel the product: Talstar 10WP Insecticide/miticide.

• IR-4 * - Filing of Seven Pesticide Petitions for tolerances of residues in or on the raw agricultural commodities.
• PP 6E4629 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for artichoke at 1 ppm.
• PP 6E4760 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for crop group 9 cucurbit vegetables at 0.4 ppm.
• PP 8E4993 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for crop subgroup 6B edible-podded legume vegetables at 0.2 ppm.
• PP 8E5009 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for eggplant at 0.05 ppm.
• PP 9E5084 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for rapeseed including, canola and crambe seed, at 0.05 ppm.
• PP 9E5069 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for crop subgroup 5A Head and Stem Brassica, excluding cabbage, at 0.6 ppm and cabbage at 4.0 ppm.
• PP 9E5064 proposes the establishment of a tolerance for crop subgroup 6B, succulent shelled peas and beans at 0.5 ppm.

FMC - Pesticide Tolerance Petition for residues in or on the raw agricultural commodity sweet corn at 0.05 ppm; and proposal to amend the existing tolerance for corn forage from 2.0 to 3.0 ppm.

FMC - Pesticide Tolerance Petition for residues in or on the raw agricultural commodity corn, grain (sweet) at 0.05 ppm and corn, forage at 3.0 ppm.

FMC - Filing of Pesticide Petition to remove limitations on tolerances in or on cottonseed and grain corn at 0.5 ppm, dried hops at 10 ppm; and strawberries at 3.0 ppm.

FMC - Pesticide Tolerance Petition of 3.0 ppm for strawberries and various other AG commodities.