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FOR RELEASE: MONDAY, MAY 28, 1996
PUBLIC INVITED TO ASSIST EPA IN PRIORITIZING PESTICIDES
FOR REREGISTRATION IN FISCAL YEAR 1997
EPA is announcing its plans for pesticide reregistration decisions in
fiscal years l996 and l997 and inviting comment to help set priorities
for action in l997. EPA is interested in knowing which pesticides on
a list of potential candidates for decisions in FY l997 are of the
greatest interest or concern to the public from a human health or
environmental perspective, and why, so that the limited resources of
the Office of Pesticide Programs may be focused most effectively. EPA
is using risk-based criteria to select pesticides as candidates for
reregistration decisions, giving the highest priority to those
pesticides with the greatest potential for dietary, occupational and
residential exposure and risk. The 1988 Amendments to the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act require EPA to reregister
all pesticides first registered before Nov. 1, l984. Reregistration
consists of obtaining a substantially complete set of data on each
pesticide chemical in accord with current scientific standards,
scientifically evaluating the potential health and environmental
effects, and determining what risk mitigation measures may be needed.
When EPA has reevaluated a pesticide and is satisfied that it will not
pose unreasonable risks to human health or the environment when used
in accordance with label directions, the Agency will issue a document
called a Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED). A RED on a
pesticide active ingredient indicates that products containing this
active ingredient are eligible or ineligible for reregistration and
continued use. EPA issued a record 40 REDs in FY l995 and expects to
complete another 40 in FY 1996 from a list of the following 50
candidates: alachlor, aldicarb, amitrole, B.popilliae & b.lentimorb,
bromacil, bromadiolone, bromethalin, captan, chlorothalonil,
chlorpyrifos, colletotrichum gloesporioides spores, coumaphos,
cryolite, DEET, desmedipham, dibromodicyanobutane, dichlobenil,
dicofol, diflubenzuron, dimethyloxazolidine, ethion, fenamiphos,
fenthion, gibberellic acid, hydroprene, hydroxyethyl octyl sulfide,
hydroxypropyl methanethiosulfonate, mepiquat chloride, methylene
bisthiocyanate, methylisothiazoline, metribuzin, mitinFF, naled, 4-
nitrophenol, norflurazon, NPV (nuclear polyhedral viruses) inclusion
bodies, paraquat dichloride, p-chlor-m-cresol, pendimethalin, phorate,
profenofos, propoxur, strychnine, tanol derivatives, terbufos,
tridencenyl acetate, troysan KK-108A, vanicide, vinclozolin, and
virelure.
EPA's goal is to complete an additional 40 REDs in FY l997. These
will consist of several from the list above, the following l7
pesticides for which the Agency has begun scientific assessments, plus
others from the list of over 80 noted below: benomyl, bromoxynil,
butralin, cypermethrin, DEF, dimethoate, fluvalinate, fonofos,
methidathion, oxamyl, oxyfluorfen, PCNB, permethrin, sulprofos,
thiobencarb, thiodicarb, and triclopyr. The Agency is seeking public
input in prioritizing the following for reregistration, approximately
15 of which will be completed in l997: 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, 2,4-DP,
acrolein, allethrin, arsenal, azadioxabicyclooctane, azinphos-methyl,
bendiocarb, benfluralin, bensulide, benzisothiaszolin-3-one, bioban P-
1487, bis(bromoacetoxy)-2-butene, brodifacoum, bromonitrostyrene,
cacodylic acid, calcium polysulfide, carbofuran, chlorine dioxide,
chloroneb, chloropicrin, chlorphacinone, chlorsulfuron, coal
tar/creosote, cycloate, dazomet, diiodomethyl p-tolyl sulfone,
dipropyl isocinchomeronate, dikegulac sodium, diphacinone,
diphenylamine, diuron, EPTC, endosulfan, flumetralin, fluometuron,
formaldehyde, formetanate HCL, grotan, iprodione, irgasan, malathion,
MCPB, mefluidide and salts, methomyl, methyl esters of fatty acids,
napthalene, octhilinone, oil of pennyroyal, oxadiazon, oxydemeton
methyl (ODM), oxythioquinox, pentachlorophenol, perbulate,
phenmedipham, phenol, phosmet, pine oil, piperonyl butoxide,
pirimiphos-methyl, prometon, propanil, propetamphos, propylene oxide,
pyrazon, pyrethrin, pryimidinone (amdro), sethoxydim, siduron, sodium
bisulfite and sulfur dioxide, sodium chlorate, sulfonated oleic acid,
sumithrin, telone, terbacil, terrazole, tetramethrin, thiabendazole,
triallate, zinc omadine, and zinc phosphide. In l988 approximately
600 groups of related pesticide active ingredients or cases
representing 45,000 formulated products required reevaluation or
reregistration. Over 200 cases and 20,000 products have been canceled
because producers failed to provide the necessary data to support them
or EPA has taken regulatory action to cancel them. Of the remaining
382 cases being supported, EPA has issued REDs on l29 to date, which
is more than one-third of the way toward completing the reregistration
program. Comments are due by July l5 and should be identified with
the docket number "OPP-34093" and addressed to: OPP Pesticide Docket
(7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs, U.S. EPA, 401 M St., S.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20460.
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