. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1200 
10 January 2006 
 (06-0098) 
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):   Bee repellant, onion, potato, and tomato , banana, sugar beets, melon, apple; 
apricot; cherry; citron, citrus; crabapples; cucu mber; fig; fig, dried fruit; grapefruit; grape; 
hop, dried; hop, vine; lemon; lime; meat; me lon; 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:  PROPOSED RULE.  
Benzaldehyde, Captafol, Hexacon azole, Paraformaldehyde, Sodium 
dimethyldithiocarbamate, and Tetradifon; Proposed Tolerance Ac tions (Available in 
English, 5 pages)  
6. Description of content:  EPA is proposing to revoke speci fic tolerances and tolerance 
exemptions for residues of the insecticides pa raformaldehyde and tetradifon; fungicides 
captafol, hexaconazole, and sodium dime thyldithiocarbamate; and bee repellant 
benzaldehyde. EPA cancelled 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  Also , stakeholders have withdrawn their support 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 hexac onazole. EPA expects to determine whether any 
individuals or groups want to support these tole rances.  The regulatory actions proposed in 
this document contribute toward the Agency's  tolerance reassessment requirements under 
federal law.  
7. Objective and rationale: [ X ] food safety,  [   ] animal health,  [ X ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests   G/SPS/N/USA/1200 
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 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: 
23 December 2005 (Volume 70, Number 246), Pages 76224-76228, 
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic-rel11/ContentViewer?objectId=09000064800ff 097&contentType=html&disposition=inline  
(Available in English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  TBA 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  TBA 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number 
EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0322, must be receive d on or before 21 February 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, 7508C,  Office of Pesticide 
Programs, Environmental Protection Agency , 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 
D.C. 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. Lashonda McLeod, United States SPS Nati onal Notification Authority, USDA Foreign 
Agricultural Service, Food Safety & Technical Services Division, Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250. Tel:  202-720-5683; Fax:  202-690-0677; E-mail:  fstsd@usda.gov