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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1294 
8 May 2006 
 (06-2195) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd 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):  Onion;  potato;  tomato;  banana, beets,  sugar, roots;  beets, sugar, tops; 
citrus;  crabapples;  cucumber;  fig;  fig, dried fruit;  grapefruit;  grape;   hop, dried;  hop, 
vine;  lemon;  lime;  meat; melon;  milk;  nectarine;  orange, sweet; peach;  pear; peppermint;  plum, prune, fresh;  pumpkin;  quince;  spearmint, tops;  strawberry; tangerine;  tea, dried;  tomato;  and winter squash.  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
US trade partners.  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  FINAL RULE:  
Benzaldehyde, Captafol, Hexacon azole, Paraformaldehyde, Sodium 
dimethyldithiocarbamate, and Tetradifon; To lerance Actions (Available in English, 
4 pages).  
6. Description of content:  EPA is revoking specific tolerances and tolerance exemptions for 
residues of the insecticides paraformaldehyde  and tetradifon;  fungicides captafol, 
hexaconazole, and sodium dimethyldithiocarbama te;  and bee repellent benzaldehyde.  EPA 
canceled food use registrations or deleted food uses from registrations following requests for voluntary cancellation or use deletion by the registrants, or non-payment of registration 
maintenance fees.  Also, stakeholders have withdrawn their support for import tolerances 
for captafol and hexaconazole.  
7. Objective and rationale: [ X ] food safety,  [ X ] animal health,  [ X ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from other damage from pests   
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation: 
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [ X ] None 
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:   G/SPS/N/USA/1294 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
26 April 2006 (Volume 71, Number 80), Pages 24586-24590,  http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/April/Day-26/p3853.htm  (Available in 
English
). 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  This regulation is effective 26 April 2006.  
In the Federal Register of 23 December 2005 (70 FR 76224) (FRL-7751-3), EPA issued a 
proposed rule to revoke certain tolerances a nd tolerance exemptions for residues of the 
insecticides paraformaldehyde and tetradif on; fungicides captafol, hexaconazole, and 
sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate;  and bee re pellent benzaldehyde.  Also, the proposal of 
23 December 2005 provided a 60-day comment period which invited public comment for consideration and for support of tolerance retention under US law.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  Not specified. 
12. Final date for comments:  This regulation is effective 26 April 2006. Objections and 
requests for hearings must be r eceived on or before 26 June 2006.  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001  
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notifi cation authority, [   ] National enquiry 
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Ms Deborah Thompson, Acting, United Stat es SPS National Notification Authority, USDA 
Foreign Agricultural Service, Food Safety & Technical Services Division, Stop 1027, 
Washington D.C. 20250.  Tel:  202-720-4051;  Fax:  202-690-0677; 
E-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov