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Norflurazon. October 30, 1996. Emergency Exemptions. Federal Register.


Note from FAN.

This Notice contained several pesticides. We have included only the fluorinated ones: bifenthrin, cyhalothrin, norflurazon, and Pirate.

 

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[Federal Register: October 30, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 211)] [Notices]
[Page 55985-55987]
>From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]


ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-181023; FRL-5391-7]

Emergency Exemptions

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.


SUMMARY: EPA has granted specific exemptions for the control of various pests to 23 States listed below. Six crisis exemptions were initiated by various States and one by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspector Service. EPA also granted a quarantine exemption to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Defense. These exemptions, issued during the months of May and June 1996, are subject to application and timing restrictions and reporting requirements designed to protect the environment to the maximum extent possible. 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 1B1, 2800 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA (703-308-8417); email: group.ermus@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has granted specific exemptions to the:


  1. Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries for the use of Pirate on cotton to control beet armyworms and tobacco budworms; June 1, 1996, to September 30, 1996. (Margarita Collantes)
  2. Arkansas State Plant Board for the use of Pirate on cotton to control beet armyworms and tobacco budworms; June 15, 1996, to September 30, 1996. (Margarita Collantes)
  3. Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce for the use of norflurazon on Bermudagrass to control weeds; June 12, 1996, to September 15, 1996. (Dave Deegan)
  4. Arkansas State Plant Board on May 7, 1996, for the use of cyhalothrin on rice to control greenbug and oakcherry aphids. This program has ended. (Dave Deegan)
  5. Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry on June 8, 1996, for the use of cyhalothrin on rice to control armyworms. This program has ended. (Dave Deegan)
  6. Montana Department of Agriculture on June 8, 1996, for the use of bifenthrin on canola to control the orucifer flea beetle. (Andrea Beard)
  7. Texas Department of Agriculture on May 29, 1996, for the use of cyhalothrin on rice to control fall armyworms. This program is expected to last until September 1, 1996. (Dave Deegan)
  8. U.S. Department of Agriculture on June 20, 1996, for the use of d-phenothrin on aircraft and other transportation vehicles to control Fruit flies, Japanese beetles and other insects. This program is expected to last until June 27, 1999. (Libby Pemberton) EPA has granted quarantine exemptions to the:
      1. U.S. Department of Agriculture for the use of d-phenothrin on aircraft and cargo containers to control Fruit flies, Japanese beetles and other insects throughout the United States; June 28, 1996, to June 27, 1999. (Libby Pemberton)
      2. U.S. Department of Defense for the use of paraformaldehyde on biological containment areas to control various disease causing organisms (ebola, anthrax, plague, etc.); June 28, 1996, to June 28,
      3. (Steve Jarboe) Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136.

        List of Subjects

        Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests, Crisis exemptions.

        Dated: October 18, 1996.

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

        [FR Doc. 96-27828 Filed 10-29-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-F