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Sodium fluoroacetate. March 15, 1995.
EPA denies request for use. Federal Register

Note from Fan:

We have included only the organofluorine pesticides in this Notice:
oxyfluorfen and sodium fluoroacetate

http://www.epa.gov/docs/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1995/March/Day-15/pr-184.html

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-180960; FRL-4935-3]

Emergency Exemptions

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA has granted specific exemptions for the control of various pests to the 10 States listed below. There were four crisis exemptions initiated by various States. Quarantine exemptions have been granted to the United States Department of Agriculture/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. These exemptions, issued during the months of October, November, and December 1994, are subject to application and timing restrictions and reporting requirements designed to protect the environment to the maximum extent possible. EPA has denied four specific and one Public Health exemption requests. Information on these restrictions is available from the contact persons in EPA listed below.

DATES: See each specific, crisis, and quarantine exemption for its effective date.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: See each emergency exemption for the name of the contact person. The following information applies to all contact persons: By mail: Registration Division (7505W), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. Office location and telephone number: 6th Floor, CS #1, 2800 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA, (703) 308-8417; email: group.ermus@epamail.epa.gov.

EPA has denied specific and public health exemption requests from the:

Connecticut Department of Agriculture for the use of oxyfluorfen on strawberries to control weeds. This specific exemption was denied because the Agency was not able to conclude that strawberry growers will experience significant economic losses if oxyfluorfen is not available. (Larry Fried)

New Hampshire Department of Agriculture for the use of oxyfluorfen on strawberries to control weeds. This specific exemption was denied because the Agency was not able to conclude that strawberry growers will experience significant economic losses if oxyfluorfen is not available. (Larry Fried)

Texas Department of Agriculture for the use of sodium fluoroacetate on certain mammalian vectors to control gray fox rabies. A notice of receipt of this public health exemption was published in the Federal Register of August 24, 1994 (59 FR 43580), an extension of comment period later published September 8, 1994 (59 FR 46428). The Agency concluded that the proposed vector control program cannot be expected with any degree of certainty to be effective in halting the spread of the epizootic. For this reason, the Agency denied the request for a public health exemption. This conclusion is based on the following: the geographical area encompassed by the epizootic appears to be too large to ensure that the landowner executed vector control efforts could be managed and coordinated efficiently; the type of bait proposed for use could not, on the basis of available relevant data, be expected to selectively target gray foxes and the primary host organisms or the purported ancillary vector species efficiently or effectively; and the proposed spacing of individual baits and the baiting density suggest that the expected taking of most baits by nontarget species would create significant gaps in the proposed barrier treatment that is intended to reduce gray fox populations and confine the epizootic. (Libby Pemberton)

1. List of Subjects

   Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests, Crisis exemptions.

   [[Page 13984]] Dated: March 6, 1995.

   Stephen L. Johnson,
   Director, Registration Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.

   [FR Doc. 95-6415 Filed 3-14-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-F