Instructions for Using the Office of Pesticide Programs' Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Templates

1. Who created the Office of Pesticide Programs' (OPP) Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Templates?

The Federal Register Staff (FRS) maintains OPP's Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Templates and instructions. FRS and OPP working together prepared the notice of filing of pesticide petition drafting templates, which contain both boilerplate and non-boilerplate text. The non-boilerplate text, which is variable text, is written by the company drafter. The boilerplate text is a collaborative effort by various groups to obtain information from the companies in an uniform way, in order to assure that EPA has all the necessary componets to comply with statutory and non-statutory requirements when drafting Federal Register (FR) documents that require this information.

2. Are there any prerequisites before I use a Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template?

Yes, be sure Microsoft Office Word 2003 is installed on your computer.

3. How do I know if a Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template is current?

All Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Templates carry the revision date and template number at the top of the template in a blue "Information [I] button." Periodically, FRS updates them; therefore, it is important that you come to this website each time you start a Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition drafting project.

4. How do I download the Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template I want?

Identify and click on the selected Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template.
Click "Save" in the "File Download" dialog box.
Save the Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template (.dot) to any drive, except A:/ (3^1/2" floppy). After drafting, the file may become too large to save to an A:/ drive.
Click "Save" in the "Save As" dialog box.
Click "Close" in the "Download complete" dialog box.

5. How do I start the drafting process?

On the Menu Bar, select "File," "New."
In the right-hand panel, under the heading "New," in the "New Document" panel, click "From existing document…"
If the "New Document" panel is not showing, go to the Menu Bar, click "View" and click "Task Pane."
Browse to find the Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template that you downloaded from the Internet.
Click "Create New."

The Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template will immediately open and create a Microsoft Word document (.doc). Re-name and save the new Microsoft Word document:

Click "File."
Click "Save," NOT "Save As."
At the bottom of the dialog box, name the Microsoft Word document. Do not remove the .doc extension when naming the file.

You are now ready to complete your Microsoft Word document.

6. What do the colors and brackets mean in a Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Template?

All Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petition Drafting Templates have bracketed and color-coded areas, which identify where the varible text is to be inserted by the company drafter. If you use the cut and paste function, that is cutting and pasting from another file, the cut and pasted text will not be colored when inserted in a color-coded area.
Color identification is standard.
- Green indicates those areas that the company drafter is allowed to type or cut and past text into. REMOVE all green instructions, if any, before submission to the appropriate OPP division.
- Blue indicates general instructions.
- Orange indicates boilerplate language required by an OPP division.

7. Do I need to remove the blue instructions and the Information I buttons before submission to the OPP Division?

No.