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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 25 / Tuesday, February 9, 2021 / Notices
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II. Background EPA has granted emergency exemptions to the following State and Federal agencies. The emergency exemptions may take the following form: Crisis, public health, quarantine, or specific. There were no denied emergency exemption requests for the time-period covered by this notice.
Under FIFRA section 18 7 U.S.C.
136p, EPA can authorize the use of a pesticide when emergency conditions exist. Authorizations commonly called emergency exemptions are granted to State and Federal agencies and are of four types:
1. A specific exemption authorizes use of a pesticide against specific pests on a limited acreage in a particular state.
Most emergency exemptions are specific exemptions.
2. Quarantine and public health exemptions are emergency exemptions issued for quarantine or public health purposes. These are rarely requested.
3. A crisis exemption is initiated by a State or Federal agency and is confirmed by EPA when there is insufficient time to request and obtain EPA permission for use of a pesticide in an emergency.
EPA may deny an emergency exemption: If the State or Federal agency cannot demonstrate that an emergency exists, if the use poses unacceptable risks to the environment, or if EPA cannot reach a conclusion that the proposed pesticide use is likely to result in a reasonable certainty of no harm to human health, including from exposure of infants and children to residues of the pesticide.
If the emergency use of the pesticide on a food or feed commodity would result in pesticide chemical residues, EPA establishes a time-limited tolerance meeting the reasonable certainty of no harm standard of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act FFDCA.
In this document: EPA identifies the State or Federal agency granted the exemption, the type of exemption, the pesticide authorized and the pests, the crop or use for which authorized, number of acres if applicable, and the
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duration of the exemption. EPA also gives the Federal Register citation for the time-limited tolerance, if any.
III. Emergency Exemptions A. U.S. States and Territories Arkansas State Plant Board Specific exemption: EPA authorized the use of flupyradifurone on a maximum of 200 acres of sweet sorghum to control sugarcane aphid.
Time-limited tolerances in connection with this action were established in 40
CFR 180.679b. This use was effective September 2, 2020 to November 15, 2020.
California Department of Pesticide Regulation Specific exemption: EPA authorized the use of lambda-cyhalothrin on a maximum of 3,000 acres of asparagus to control the European asparagus aphid Brachycolus asparagi. Since this request proposed a use for which an emergency exemption has been requested for 5 or more previous years and supported by the Interregional Research Project Number 4 IR4
program, and a registration application or tolerance petition has not been submitted to EPA, in accordance with the requirement at 40 CFR 166.24, a notice of receipt published in the Federal Register on August 13, 2020 85
FR 4936536 FRL1001255 with the public comment period closing on August 28, 2020. This use was effective September 11, 2020 to October 31, 2020.
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Crisis Exemption: EPA concurred upon a crisis exemption declared by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry for the use of flupyradifurone on a maximum of 500,000 acres of sugarcane to control sugarcane aphids. A time-limited tolerance for residues of flupyradifurone on sugarcane will be established at 40
CFR 180.679 in connection with this stand-alone 15-day crisis exemption program. This use was effective July 23, 2020 to August 5, 2020.
Maryland Department of Agriculture Specific exemptions: EPA authorized the use of dinotefuran on a maximum of 3,730 acres of pome and stone fruit to control the brown marmorated stinkbug.
Time-limited tolerances in connection with past actions were established in 40
CFR 180.603b. Since this request
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proposed a use for which an emergency exemption has been requested for 5 or more previous years and supported by the IR4 program and a registration application or tolerance petition has not been submitted to EPA, in accordance with the requirements at 40 CFR 166.24, a notice of receipt published in the Federal Register on May 27, 2020 85
FR 31776 FRL1000975 with the public comment period closing on June 11, 2020. This use was effective July 15, 2020 to October 15, 2020.
Nevada Department of Agriculture Specific exemption: EPA authorized the use of afidopyropen on a maximum of 25,000 acres of alfalfa to control blue alfalfa aphid Acyrthosiphon kondoi. A
time-limited tolerance in connection with this action will be established in 40 CFR 180.700b. This use is effective July 29, 2020 to May 30, 2021.
New York Department of Environmental Conservation Specific exemption: EPA authorized the use of bifenthrin on a maximum of 7,521 acres of apples, peaches, and nectarines to control the brown marmorated stinkbug. Time-limited tolerances in connection with past actions were established in 40 CFR
180.442b. This use was effective July 16, 2020 to October 15, 2020.
North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Specific exemptions: EPA authorized the use of dinotefuran on a maximum of 4,000 acres of pome and stone fruit to control the brown marmorated stinkbug.
Time-limited tolerances in connection with past actions were established in 40
CFR 180.603b. Since this request proposed a use for which an emergency exemption has been requested for 5 or more previous years and supported by the IR4 program and a registration application or tolerance petition has not been submitted to EPA, in accordance with the requirements at 40 CFR 166.24, a notice of receipt published in the Federal Register on May 27, 2020 85
FR 31776 FRL1000975 with the public comment period closing on June 11, 2020. This use was effective July 15, 2020 to October 15, 2020.
EPA authorized the use of flupyradifurone on a maximum of 750
acres of sweet sorghum to control sugarcane aphid. Time-limited tolerances in connection with this action were established in 40 CFR

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