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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/662
9 January 2003
(03-0106)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Products that use the insecticide Lambda-cyhalothrin, specifically cherries;
dried shelled beans and peas;  edible podded beans and peas;  hazelnuts;  peaches;
almonds;  apples;  avocados;  canola seed;  pears;  pecans;  peppers;  sorghum;  succulentshelled beans and peas;  sugarcane;  and walnuts;  aspirated grain fractions, the head and
stem Brassica subgroup, corn, cotton seed, dry bulb onions, lettuce, peanuts, soybeans,
sorghum, sunflowers, tomatoes, and wheat.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any
U.S. trading partners
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Lambda-cyhalothrin;
Pesticide Tolerance, (available in English, 14 pages).
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of lambda-
cyhalothrin in or on almond, hulls at 1.5 ppm;  apple pomace, wet at 2.50 ppm;  avocados
(imported) at 0.20 ppm;  canola, seed at 0.15 ppm;  fruit, pome, group at 0.3 ppm;  fruit,
stone, group at 0.50 ppm;  nut, tree, group at 0.05 ppm;  peanut, hay at 3.0 ppm;  peas and
beans - dried shelled, (except soybean), subgroup at 0.1 ppm;  peas and beans - succulent
shelled, subgroup at 0.01 ppm;  sorghum, grain, forage at 0.3 ppm;  sorghum, grain, stoverat 0.5 ppm;  sugarcane at 0.05 ppm;  vegetables, fruiting, group (except cucurbits) at
0.2 ppm;  and vegetables, legumes, edible podded subgroup at 0.2 ppm in 40 CFR 180.438.
These tolerances were requested under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as
amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:G/SPS/N/USA/662
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9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  DOCID:
fr27se02-18, Federal Register:  27 September 2002 (Volume 67, Number 188)
Pages 60902-60915,
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2002/September/Day-27/p24486.htm;  Available
in English
10. Proposed date of adoption:  n.a.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   27 September 2002
12. Final date for comments:  26 November 2002
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:   ¨
Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Information Resources and
Services Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.  opp-docket@epa.gov
Note:  Identify docket name "AOPP-2002-0204" in subject line of your response.
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Mr. Bill Janis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1027, Washington, DC 20250.
Tel (202) 720-9047, (202) 720-0677, fstsd@usda.gov