WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1619 
20 June 2007  
 (07-2611) 
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):  Eggs, poultry, goat, cattle, horse, sheep, sorghum, corn 
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:  PROPOSED RULE .  
Amitraz, Atrazine, Ethephon, Ferbam, Linda ne, Propachlor, and Simazine; Proposed 
Tolerance Actions (available in English, 13 pages) 
6. Description of content:  By means of this rule and on the basis of available data, the 
Agency proposes the following ch anges to existing federal regulations for the pesticide 
propachlor: 
Currently, propachlor tolerances are estab lished for residues of propachlor and its 
metabolites, calculated as propachlor. The Agen cy determined that residues of concern are 
propachlor and its metabolites which contain the N-isopropylaniline moiety. Therefore, 
EPA is proposing to revise the tolerance expressi on as follows:  "(a) General. Tolerances 
are established for the combined residues of the herbicide 2-chloro-N-isopropylacetanilide 
and its metabolites containing the N- isopropylaniline moiety, calculated as 2-chloro-N-isopropylacetanilide, in or on the foll owing raw agricultural commodities": 
EPA is proposing to remove the "(N)" designa tion from all entries to conform to current 
Agency administrative practice, where the "( N)" designation means negligible residues.  
Based on poultry feeding data and MTDB for poultry, EPA determined that there is no 
reasonable expectation of finite residues of propazine residues of concern in eggs (< 0.02 ppm at 60x MTDB) and in the fat, meat, and meat byproducts of poultry (as high as 0.02 ppm at 60x MTDB) resulting from the feeding of propachlor treated commodities. 
Therefore, the tolerances on fat, meat, meat byproducts for poultry are no longer needed. 
Consequently, the Agency is proposing to re voke the tolerances on "e gg", "poultry, fat", 
"poultry, meat", and "poultry, meat byproducts". 
EPA is proposing to increase the tolerances in on "cattle, fat", "goat, fat", "horse, fat" and 
"sheep, fat" to 0.05 ppm; revise their comm odity terminologies to read "cattle, meat 
byproducts, except kidney", "goat, meat byproducts, except kidney", "horse, meat 
byproducts, except kidney" and "sheep, meat byproducts, except kidney", increase 
tolerances on cattle, meat byproducts, excep t kidney; goats, meat byproducts, except G/SPS/N/USA/1619 
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  kidney; horse, meat byproducts, except kidne y; and sheep, meat byproducts, except kidney; 
to 0.05 ppm and establish separate tolerances for "cattle, kidney", "goat, kidney", "horse, 
kidney" and "sheep, kidney" at 0.2 ppm. Th e Agency determined that the increased 
tolerances are safe; i.e., there is a reasona ble certainty that no harm will result from 
aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. 
EPA is proposing to revise the commodity terminology "sorghum, forage" to read 
"sorghum, grain, forage" and "s orghum, forage, forage" and increase the tolerance from 5.0 
to 8.0 ppm; and increase "sorghum, grain, stover" from 5.0 to 12.0 ppm. The Agency determined that the increased to lerances are safe; i.e., there is a reasonable certainty that no 
harm will result from aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. 
EPA is proposing to revise the commodity terminology for "corn, grain" to read "corn, 
field, grain" and to increase the tolerance on corn, field, grain to 0.2 ppm, to increase "corn, forage" to 3.0 ppm, and revise the commodity term inology to read "corn, field, forage" and 
"corn, sweet, forage". The Agency determined  that the increased tolerances are safe; i.e., 
there is a reasonable certainty that no ha rm will result from aggregate exposure to the 
pesticide chemical residue. Based on availabl e data that showed combined propachlor 
residues of concern no greater than 1.0 ppm in or on corn stover, EPA determined that the tolerance on corn stover should be established at 1.0 ppm. Therefore, the Agency is proposing to establish a tolerance on corn, field, stover at 1.0 ppm. 
In addition, EPA is proposing to revise co mmodity terminology to conform to current 
Agency practices as follows:  "sorghum, grain" to "sorghum, grain, grain". 
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:     
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
13 June 2007 (Volume 72, Number 113) Proposed Rules Page 32570-32582; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/June/Day-13/p11324.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  13 August 2007 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 13 August 2007, and 
may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0187. 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   Registration Division, (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001  G/SPS/N/USA/1619 
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  13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail add ress (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), St op 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 690- 0677;  E-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov