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State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Working Committees on Pesticide Operations and Management and Water Quality and Pesticide Disposal; Open Meeting

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 [Federal Register: November 5, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 214)]
[Notices]
[Page 60442-60443]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr05no99-63]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-00628; FRL-6392-1]


State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Working
Committees on Pesticide Operations and Management and Water Quality and
Pesticide Disposal; Open Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

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SUMMARY: The State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG)
Working Committees on Pesticide Operations and Management and Water
Quality and Pesticide Disposal will hold a 3-day meeting, beginning on
November 8, 1999, and ending on November 10, 1999. This notice
announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the
tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The SFIREG Pesticide Operations and Management Working Committee
will meet alone on Monday, November 8, 1999, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. The Pesticide Operations and Management and Water Quality and
Pesticide Disposal Working Committees will meet jointly on Tuesday,
November 9, 1999, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The Water Quality and
Pesticide Disposal Working Committee will meet on Tuesday, November 9,
1999, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and again on Wednesday, November 10, 1999,
from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at The Doubletree Hotel, 300 Army
Navy Drive, Arlington-Crystal City, VA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Philip H. Gray, SFIREG Executive
Secretary, P. O. Box 1249, Hardwick, VT

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05843-1249; telephone number: (802) 472-6956; fax number: (802) 472-
6957; e-mail address: aapco@plainfield.bypass.com or Elaine Y. Lyon,
Field and External Affairs Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide
Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (703) 305-5306; fax number: (703) 308-1850;
e-mail address: lyon.elaine@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    This action is directed to the public in general, but all parties
interested in SFIREG's information exchange relationship with EPA
regarding important issues related to human health, environmental
exposure to pesticides, and insight into the EPA's decision-making
process are invited and encouraged to attend the meetings and
participate as appropriate.

II. How Can I Get Additional Information, Including Copies of this
Document and Other Related Documents?

    1. Electronically. You may obtain electronic copies of this
document, and certain other related documents that might be available
electronically, from the EPA Internet Home Page at http://www.epa.gov/.
To access this document, on the Home Page select ``Laws and
Regulations'' and then look up the entry for this document under the
``Federal Register-Environmental Documents.'' You can also go directly
to the Federal Register listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. You
may also obtain electronic copies of the minutes, and certain other
related documents that might be available electronically, from the
Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO) Internet
Home Page at http://aapco.ceris.purdue.edu/doc/index.html. To access
this document, on the Home Page select ``SFIREG'' and then look up the
entry for this document under the ``SFIREG Meetings.''
    2. In person. The Agency has established an official record for
this action under docket control number OPP-00628. The official record
consists of the documents specifically referenced in this action, any
public comments received during an applicable comment period, and other
information related to this action, including any information claimed
as Confidential Business Information (CBI). This official record
includes the documents that are physically located in the docket, as
well as the documents that are referenced in those documents. The
public version of the official record, which includes printed, paper
versions of any electronic comments that may be submitted during an
applicable comment period, is available for inspection in the Public
Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall
#2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The PIRIB telephone
number is (703) 305-5805.

III. Purpose of the Meeting

A. Pesticide Operations Management Working Committee Tentative Agenda

    1. Update and discussion of Pesticide Field Data Plan.
    2. Cooperative Agreement Grant Funding.
    3. Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance topics for
discussion:
    a. Federal Inspector credentials.
    b. Inspector training.
    c. Inspector manual.
    d. Custom Blend policy.
    e. Worker Protection issues.
    4. Outcome of National Endangered Species meeting.
    5. Registration and labeling issues on fumigants:
    a. Methyl bromide.
    b. Phosphide REDS.
    6. Rodenticide project - ``Rats are Us.''
    7. Region 9 Issue Paper on Increased EPA Support for State Lead
Agency Laboratory Formulation Work.
    8. Working Committee reports.
    9. Updates from the Office of Pesticide Programs and the Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
    10. Other topics as appropriate.

B. Pesticide Operations and Management Working Committee and Water
Quality and Pesticide Disposal Working Committee Joint Meeting
Tentative Agenda

    1. Labeling issues:
    a. Status of Label Accountability project.
    b. Consumer Labeling/Disposal Initiative (CLI).
    c. Use directions on labels.
    d. Update on Pesticide Registration Notice on Mandatory v. Advisory
Language.
    2. Pesticide management plan issues.
    3. Status on language for spray drift minimization update and
discussion.
    4. Conditional Registration update and discussion.
    5. Aquatic Pesticide update and discussion.
    6. Laboratory Issue Paper: ``State Lab Capabilities for Analysis of
New Pesticide Products.''
    7. AAPCO Initiative.
    a. State lab needs - present and future.
    b. Support for regulatory programs.
    8. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System update and
discussion.
    9. Total Maximum Daily Load update and discussion.
    10. Active Ingredient Isomers issues.
    11. Inert distributions of EPA registered and non registered
pesticides.
    12. EPA Strategic Plan Workshop update.
    13. Updates from the Office of Pesticide Programs and the Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
    14. Other topics as appropriate.

C. Water Quality and Pesticide Disposal Working Committee Tentative
Agenda

    1. Pesticide Biocumulative Toxins (PBT) National Action Plan for
Level One Pesticides.
    2. Status of Pesticide Management Plan.
    3. California Ground Water Initiative Workshops.
    4. EPA Ground Water report to Congress.
    5. U.S. Geological Survey reports - ``Distribution of Major
Herbicides in Ground Water.''
    6. Updates from the Office of Pesticide Programs and Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
    7. Working Committee reports.
    8. Other topics as appropriate.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection.

    Dated: October 29, 1999.

Anne E. Lindsay,

Director, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.

[FR Doc. 99-29044 Filed 11-2-99; 4:42 pm]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-F

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