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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/634
21 August 2002
(02-4516)
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):  Pesticide - clopyralid
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Any trading partners
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Notice of Filing
Pesticide Petitions To Establish Tolerances for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food
- Clopyralid (7 pages, available in English).
6. Description of content: This notice announces the initial filing of pesticide petitions
proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or
on various food commodities.
EPA has received twelve pesticide petitions from the petitioners proposing, pursuant to
section 408(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. 346a(d),
to amend 40 CFR part 180 to establish tolerances for clopyralid in or on the raw
agricultural commodities as follows:
(1) Proposes a tolerance for flax seed at 3.0 part per million (ppm).
(2) Proposes a tolerance for strawberry at 1.0 ppm.
(3) Proposes a tolerance for hop, dried cones at 5.0 ppm.(4) Proposes tolerances for rapeseed seed, rapeseed forage, canola seed, mustard seed,
and crambe seed at 3 ppm, and canola meat at 6.0 ppm.
(5) Proposes a tolerance for spinach at 5.0 ppm.
(6) Proposes a tolerance for the stone fruit group at 0.5 ppm.
(7) Proposes tolerances for garden beet tops at 3.0 ppm and garden beet roots at 4.0 ppm.(8) Proposes a tolerance for mustard greens at 5.0 ppm.
(9) Proposes tolerances for turnip roots at 1.0 ppm and
turnip greens at 4.0 ppm.
(10) Proposes a tolerance for cranberry at 4 ppm.
(11) Proposes tolerances for sweet corn, kernel plus cob with husks removed at 1.0 ppm,
sweet corn forage at 7.0 ppm, sweet corn stover at 10.0 ppm, pop corn grain at
1.0 ppm, pop corn stover at 10.0 ppm, liver of cattle, goat, horse, and sheep at3.0 ppm, meat byproducts, except liver, of cattle, goat, horse and sheep at 36.0 ppm,
and milk at 0.2 ppm.
(12) Proposes a tolerance for the Brassica, head and stem, subgroup at 2.0 ppm.G/SPS/N/USA/634
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EPA has determined that the petitions contain data or information regarding the elements
set forth in section 408(d)(2) of the FFDCA ; however, EPA has not fully evaluated the
sufficiency of the submitted data at this time or whether the data support granting of the
petitions.  Additional data may be needed before EPA rules on the petitions.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[   ] 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:
9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available: 67 FR 52990,
14 August 2002.  Available in English.
10. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined.
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received by EPA on or before
13 September 2002.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:   Environmental Protection Agency.
Detailed instruction on where and how to send comments is in the body of the full text -
which will be sent upon request to the address in paragraph 13.
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority,  [ X ]  National enquiry
point,  or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
United States SPS Enquiry Point/Notification Authority
USDA/FAS/FSTSD
ATTN: Carolyn F. Wilson
Room 5545 South Agriculture Building
Stop 10271400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20250
Phone (202) 720-2239
Fax (202) 690-0677
E-mail Address: fstsd@fas.usda.gov