Technical Amendments to Sulfentrazone; Establishment of Tolerances; Correction of Effective Date Under Congressional Review Act (CRA)

On March 10, 1997 (62 FR 10703), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a final rule concerning the establishment of tolerances for residues of the herbicide sulfentrazone (N-[2,4-dichloro-5-[4-(difluromethyl)-4,5-dihydro-3-methyl-5-oxo-1H- 1,2,4-triazol-1-yl]pheny]methanesulfonamide) and its major metabolite 3-hydroxymethyl sulfentrazone (N-[2,4-dichloro-5-[4-(difluoromethyl)- 4,5-dihydro-3-hydroxymethyl-5-oxo-1H-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1- yl]pheny]methanesulfonamide), in or on the raw agricultural commodity soybean seed at 0.05 ppm and for combined inadvertent residues of sulfentrazone, and its metabolites, 3-hydroxymethyl sulfentrazone and 3-desmethyl sulfentrazone [N-2[2,4-dichloro-5[4-(difluoromethyl)-4,5- dihydro-5-oxo-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl]phenyl]methanesulfonamide] in cereal grains (excluding sweet corn) forage at 0.2 ppm, straw at 0.6 ppm, hay at 0.2 ppm, grain at 0.1 ppm, stover at 0.1 ppm, bran at 0.15 ppm and hulls at 0.30 ppm. The March 10, 1997, document established an effective date of March 10, 1997. This document corrects the effective date of the rule May 1, 1998 to be consistent with sections 801 and 808 of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), enacted as part of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 and 808.