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Pesticide News Story: Comment Period Extended on EPA Chemigation Labeling Paper
For Release: January 30, 2009
Interested parties now have until March 6 to provide comments on EPA’s chemigation labeling discussion paper, which is available at: https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/labels/chemigation.pdf. Comments on this paper should be submitted to: opp_labeling_consistency@epa.gov. Do not submit information considered to be Confidential Business Information or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any comments submitted may be made available to the public. To assist the Agency in responding to comments, please include your name, organizational affiliation, and a telephone number.
As background, the Agency is considering developing new guidance for the labeling of pesticide products applied through irrigation systems, known as “chemigation.” Such guidance would supersede the existing Agency guidance on this subject contained in Pesticide Registration Notice 87-1 (PRN 87-1), published March 11, 1987. EPA’s labeling discussion paper was posted on the Web site in December to give interested parties an opportunity to provide the Agency with preliminary, informal comments on the best approaches to take in developing useful guidance on chemigation labeling. In addition, State pesticide regulatory officials representing the State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) requested that EPA consider this step in an issue paper. Information about other Pesticide Program labeling activities is available on the Web site.