Response to Requests to Cancel Certain Creosote Wood Preservative Products, and/or to Amend to Terminate Certain Uses of Other Creosote Products

Résumé

This notice announces that cancellation orders were signed on August 11, 2004, in response to the use terminations and cancellations voluntarily requested by the registrants of certain wood preservative products containing creosote pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. EPA issued final cancellation order letters to the five registrants of creosote products accepting their voluntary use termination requests/ product cancellation requests to either amend current label language to delete non-pressure treatment uses of creosote or to cancel the affected products. Both the use terminations and the product cancellations are effective December 31, 2004. In addition to stating the Agency's response to the requests, this notice also addresses the comments received in response to the Agency's requests for public comments on the above stated requests.