G/SPS/N/USA/3377  
19 April 2023  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency  
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):  Multiple crops  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  Ethalfluralin; Pesticide Tolerances. Final Rule . 
Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  5 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-04-10/html/2023 -07456.htm  
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of 
ethalfluralin in or on multiple crops: in or on Hemp, seed at 0.05 ppm; Onion, bulb, 
subgroup 3 -07A at 0.01 ppm; Stevia, dried leaves at 0.05 ppm; Stevia, fresh leaves at 
0.05 ppm; Vegetable, legume, pulse, bean, dried shelled, except soybean, subgroup 
6-22E at 0.05 ppm; Vegetable, legume, pulse, pea, dried shelled, subgroup 6 -22F at 
0.05 ppm; and Vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C at 0.01 ppm. Additionally, 
the following tolerances are removed as unnecessary: Bean, dry, seed at 0.05 ppm; pea, 
dry, s eed at 0.05 ppm; and potato at 0.01 ppm.  
Finally, EPA is removing the tolerance on potato at 0.05 ppm as a housecleaning measure, 
since that tolerance expired on 28 January 2021.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant p rotection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial numb er of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No G/SPS/N/USA/3377  
 
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  If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-10-21/html/2021 -22970.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-03-22/html/2022 -06046.htm  
https://www.govi nfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-04-28/html/2022 -09145.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-07-28/html/2020 -16266.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-09-21/html/2022 -19022.htm  
(available in English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 10 April 2023  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 10 April 2023  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 10 April 2023  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [  ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address 
(if ava ilable) of other body:   
Daniel Rosenblatt, Acting Director, Registration Division (7505T), Office of Pesticide 
Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20460 -0001; Tel: +(202) 566 -1030; E-mail: RDFRNotices@epa.gov . 
13. Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-04-10/html/2023 -07456.htm