. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/USA/161 
14 December 2005 
 (05-5951) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency  (EPA) (165) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Motor vehicles 
(HS:  Chapter 8408;  ICS:  13.040). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Control of Air 
Pollution From New Motor Vehicles and Ne w Motor Vehicle Engines:  Technical 
Amendments to Evaporative Emissions Re gulations, Dynamometer Regulations, and 
Vehicle Labeling (3 Pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   In the "Rules and Regulations'' se ction of this Federal Register, we 
are making these technical amendments as a dir ect final rule without prior proposal, because 
we view these technical amendments as nonc ontroversial revisions.  We anticipate no 
adverse comment.  We have explained our r easons for these technical amendments in the 
preamble to the direct final rule.  If we recei ve no adverse comment, we will not take further 
action on this proposed rule.  If we receive a dverse comment, we will withdraw the portions 
of the direct final rule receiving such comment  and those portions will not take effect.  We 
will address all public comments in a subsequent fi nal rule based on this proposed rule.  We 
will not institute a second comment period on th is action.  Any parties interested in 
commenting must do so at this time.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of the environment 
8. Relevant documents:   70 Federal Register (FR) 72970 8 December 2005;   Title 40 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 86.  Will appear  in the Federal Register when adopted.   
Direct Final Ruling available on the Internet at URLs:    
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9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }6 February 2006 
10. Final date for comments:   9 January  2006 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Full Text of this Notification is Now Available on the Internet at URLs: 
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