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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1451 
27 October 2006 
 (06-5176) 
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):   All products using carbaryl.  
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.  Petition to 
Revoke Tolerances Established for Carbaryl; No tice of Availability (Available in English, 
2 pages).  
6. Description of content:  EPA is seeking public comment on a petition from the 
Washington Toxics Coalition (Washington Toxics), available in docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0801, requesting that the Agency revoke  all tolerances for the pesticide carbaryl. 
The petitioner, Washington Toxics, requests this  action to obtain what they believe would 
be proper application of the safety standard s under federal law.  Washington Toxics is 
petitioning EPA to cancel all uses of carbary l because Washington Toxics believes carbaryl 
cannot perform its intended function with ou t causing unreasonable adverse affects on the 
environment.  
Washington Toxics is filing this petition in response to a Notice of Availability for the 
Carbaryl Interim Re-registration Eligibilit y Decision (IRED), published in the Federal 
Register on 27 October 2004.  The carbary l IRED is available on the website 
http://www.regulations.gov  under docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2003-0376.  
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/1451 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
13 October 2006 (Volume 71, Number 198).  Pages 60511-60512. http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- PEST/2006/October/Day-13/p16905.htm  
Available in English. 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Not specified.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This is a notice of availability and may or may not 
result in a future regulatory action.  A notice invites the public to submit additional scientific information and comments to the Agency.  
12. Final date for comments:  Comments should be received on or before 13 November 2006 
if possible.  
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 20460-0001  
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:  Doreen 
Chen-Moulec , United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign 
Agricultural Service, Food Safety & Technical Services Division, Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250.  Tel:  202-690-0607;  Fax:  202-690-0677;  Email:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov