G/SPS/N/USA/3350  
 
10 October 2022  
(22-7596) Page: 1/2 
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):  Crop Group 6: Legume Vegetables; Crop Group 7: Foliage of Legume 
Vegetables; Crop Group 15: Cereal Grains; and Crop Group 16: Forage, Fodder and Straw  
of Cereal Grains  
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:  Pesticides; Expansion of Crop Grouping Program VI . 
Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  11 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-09-21/html/2022 -19022.htm  
6. Description of content:  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing revisions 
to its pesticide tolerance crop grouping regulations, which allow the establishment of 
tolerances for multiple related crops based on data from a representative set of crops.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protec t 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 number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal H ealth (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 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  EPA harmonizes with Codex where possible, but for some of the 
MRLs (tolerance) in question, the data provided to EPA support a different MRL than 
Codex. Please refer to the Federal Register Notice for full information regarding which 
MRLs are harmonized and which are not.  G/SPS/N/USA/3350  
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:    
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 21 November 2022  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 21 November 2022  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : 21 November 2022  
[X] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [  ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 21 November 2022  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Sara Kemme, Mission Support Division (7101M), Office of Program Support, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460 -0001; Tel: +(202) 
566 1217; E -mail: kemme.sara@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 -2022-09-21/html/2022 -19022.htm