The EV Certs Whitelist was introduced to handle the transition to requiring CT for EV certificates in 2015/01/01. It contained a whitelist of those publicly-disclosed EV certificates issued prior to that date, and which should maintain their EV status.
As an EV certificate is only valid for 27 months, by virtue of the EV Guidelines, we're now past the point where all valid EV certificates have expired. This means that the code - and the component - can be safely and fully removed.
Comment 1 by eranm@chromium.org
, Jun 12 2017