. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1655 
2 August 2007  
 (07-3300) 
Committee on Sanitary and 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):  Potato, corn, leafy vegetable, tuberous vegetable, onion, leafy greens, fruiting 
vegetable, tomato, pomace, cucurbit, citrus, pome fruit, stone fruit, tree nut, almond, grape, 
hop, strawberry, cattle, goat, hog, sheep, horse 
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:  Notice of Filing of 
Pesticide Petitions for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities 
(available in English, 3 pages) 
6. Description of content:  By means of this notice, the Ag ency proposes to establish a 
tolerance for residues of the insecticide spirotet ramat, calculated as spirotetramat equivalents 
in or on food commodities:  vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C at 1.0 ppm; potato, 
granules/flakes at 2.5 ppm; onions, dry bulb, subgroup 3A at 0.3 ppm; vegetables, leafy, 
except Brassica, group 4 at 5.0 ppm; Brassica, head and stem, subgroup 5A at 3.0 ppm; 
Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 5B at 16.0 ppm; vegetables, fruiting, group 8 at 1.0 ppm; tomato, dried pomace at 2.5 ppm; vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 at 0.2 ppm; fruit, citrus, group 
10 at 0.5 ppm; citrus, oil at 4.0 ppm; fruit, po me, group 11 at 0.5 ppm; fruit, stone, group 12 at 
2.0 ppm; nut, tree, group 14 at 0.5 ppm; almond, hulls at 9.0 ppm; grape at 1.0 ppm; grape, raisin at 2.5 ppm; hop at 10.0 ppm; strawberry at 0.5 ppm; cattle, goat, hog, sheep and horse, 
meat at 0.01 ppm; cattle, goat, hog, sheep and horse, fat at 0.01 ppm; cattle, goat, hog, sheep 
and horse, liver at 0.01 ppm; cattle, goat, hog, sheep and horse, meat byproducts, except liver 
at 0.02 ppm.  
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    
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plan t Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    G/SPS/N/USA/1655 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   F e d e r a l  R e g i s t e r :  
25 July 2007 (Volume 72, Number 142) Notices Page 40877-40879; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/July/Day-25/p14058.htm
 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This is a notice of availability and may or may not result 
in a future regu latory action. 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 24 August 2007, and 
may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-00475.  
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:  Registration Division, (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460  
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notifica tion authority, [   ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:  United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop  1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 690-0677;  E-mail:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov