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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/786
25 August 2003
(03-4403)
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 pesticide Boscalid; 3-pyridinecarboxamide, 2-chloro-N-
(4'-chloro[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-yl)
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any
US trading partners.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document: Boscalid; 3-
pyridinecarboxamide, 2-chloro-N-(4'-chloro[ 1,1'-biphenyl]-2-yl); Pesticide Tolerance,
available in English, 12 pages.
6. Description of content:  On 14 February 2003 (68 FR 7542), EPA announced receipt of
and sought public comment on an application to announcing the filing of a pesticide
petition the following pesticide:  in or on vegetable, root, subgroup 1B at 1.0 ppm;
vegetables, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C at 0.05 ppm;  vegetable, root and tuber,
leaves, group 2 at 1.0 ppm; vegetable, bulb, group 3 at 3.0 ppm;  vegetable, leafy, group 4,
at 11.0 ppm;  vegetable, Brassica leafy, s ubgroup 5A, at 3.0 ppm;  vegetable, Brassica
leafy, subgroup 5B, at 18.0 ppm; vegetable, legume, group 6, at 2.2 ppm; vegetable,
legume foliage, group 7, forage at 1.5 ppm;  vegetable, legume, foliage, group 7, hay at 2.0
ppm vegetable, legume, foliage group 7, vines at 0.05 ppm;  vegetable, fruiting, group 8 at
1.0 ppm;  vegetable, cucurbit, group 9, at 1.5 ppm;  fruit, stone, group 12 at 1.7 ppm;
berries, group 13 at 3.5 ppm; nut, tree, group 14 at 0.25 ppm;  almond, hulls at 3.0 ppm;
pistachio at 0.65 ppm;  grain, cereal, group 15 at 0.2 ppm;  grain, cereal , forage, fodder,and straw, group 16, forage at 2.0 ppm;  grain, cereal, forage, fodder, and straw, group 16,
straw at 3.0 ppm;  grain, cereal, forage, fodder, and straw, group 16, fodder at 1.5 ppm
grass, forage, fodder, and hay, group 17, forage at 2.0 ppm;  grass, forage, fodder, and hay,
group 17, hay at 8.0 ppm;  animal feed, nongrass, group 18, forage at 1.0 ppm; animal feed,
nongrass, group 18, hay at 2.0 ppm;  animal feed, nongrass, group 18 seed at 0.05 ppm;mint at 30.0 ppm;  grape at 3.5 ppm;  grape, raisin at 8.5 ppm;  strawberry at 1.2 ppm;
canola at 3.5 ppm;  peanut at 0.05 ppm;  peanut, meal at 0.15 ppm;  peanut, refined oil at
0.15 ppm;  cotton, undelinted seed at 0.05 ppm; cotton, gin byproducts at 0.3 ppm;
soybean, seed at 0.1 ppm;  soybean, hulls at 0.2 ppm;  flax seed at 3.5 ppm and sunflower,
seed at 3.5 ppm.
The petition (1F6313) also requested that 40 CFR 180.589 be amended by establishing a
tolerance for combined residues of the fungicide 3-pyridinecarboxamide, 2-chloro-N-(4'-
chloro[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-yl) and metabolites M510F01 2-chloro-N-(4'-chloro-5-hydroxy-
biphenyl-2-yl) nicotinamide and M510F02 glucuronic acid conjugate of M510F01 in or on:
Cow milk at 0.10 ppm;  cow muscle, at 0.10 ppm;  cow, fat at 0.30 ppm;  cow, meat
byproducts at 0.35 ppm;  egg at 0.02 ppm;  and poultry muscle, poultry fat, and poultrymeat byproducts at 0.05 ppm.
This document announces EPA's decision to modify the registration of this pesticide.G/SPS/N/USA/786
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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:   not applicable
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  DOCID:fr30jy03-11,
Federal Register:  30 July 2003 (Volume 68, Number 146) Page 44640-44651;
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2003/July/Day-30/p19357.htm;  available in
English
10. Proposed date of adoption:  not applicable
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  30 July 2003
12. Final date for comments:  29 September 2003
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.govNote:  Identify docket name "OPP-2003-0246" 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:
Ms. Roseanne Freese, United States SPS Enquiry Point Officer, USDA Foreign
Agricultural Service, Food Safety and Technical Services Division, Stop 1027,
Washington, DC  20250.  Tel: (202) 690-1642, Fax: (202) 720-7772,Email:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov