WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1807 
28 May 2008  
 (08-2485) 
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 numb er(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Apple, citrus, rice, grape, beet, sorghum, tree nuts, radish, rutabaga, salsify, 
turnip, horseradish, tuberous vegetables, e ggplant, pepper, fruiting vegetables, bushberry, 
blueberry, soybean, cowpea, celery, swiss chard,  cucumber, cattle, goa t, horse, hog, sheep, 
milk, potato, sweet potato, leag  petioles, corn, cranberry, okra,  peanut, trefo il, pistachio, 
wheat, stone fruit, pome fruit, dillweed, pric kly pear, poultry, prune, proso, flax, melon, 
pumpkin, squash, pea, mustard, brassica, pe pper, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts 
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:  
Benfluralin, Carbaryl, Diazinon, Dicrotophos , Fluometuron, Formetan ate Hydrochloride, 
Glyphosate, Metolachlor, Napropamide, Norf lurazon, Pyrazon, and Tau-Fluvalinate;  
Proposed Tolerance Actions (avail able in English, 16 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This notification announces a pr oposed rule that existing EPA 
tolerances for residues of carbaryl in or on the following commodity(ies) be established at or 
changed to the following values in parts per mi llion (PPM), or be eliminated, as indicated 
below:  
EPA proposes establishing tole rances for carbaryl residues of concern in/on apple, wet 
pomace at 15 ppm; grain, aspira ted fractions at 70 ppm; citrus, oi l at 20 ppm; grape, raisin at 
12 ppm; rice, hulls at 30 ppm; beet, sugar, roots at 0.5 ppm; and sorghum, grain, stover at 
30 ppm. 
EPA proposes decreasing and revising the indivi dual tolerances to crop group tolerances for 
residues of the insecticide carbaryl in/on "a lmond, chestnut, hazelnut, and pecan from 1 ppm 
to nut, tree group 14, except walnut at 0.1 ppm"; "beet, garden, roots; carrot, roots; parsnip; 
radish; rutabaga; salsify, roots;  and turnip, roots from 5 ppm, and horseradish from 10 ppm to 
vegetable, root and tuber, group 1, except suga r beet and sweet potato at 2 ppm"; blueberry 
from 10 ppm to bushberry subgroup 13-07B at 3 pp m; and eggplant, pepper, and tomato from 
10 ppm to vegetable, fruiting, group 8 at 5 ppm. G/SPS/N/USA/1807 
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   EPA proposes decreasing and revisi ng tolerances for carbaryl residues of concern in/on "bean 
and lentil, seed from 10 ppm and cowpea from 5 ppm to pea and bean, dried shelled, except 
soybean, subgroup 6C at 1.0 ppm"; cowpea, forage ; cowpea, hay; and pea, field, vines from 
100 ppm to vegetable, foliage of legume, group 7 at 60 ppm: cucumber; melon; pumpkin; squash, summer; and squash, winter from 10 ppm to vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 at 3 ppm; 
and celery from 10 ppm and Swiss chard from 12 ppm to leaf petioles subgroup 4B at 3 ppm. 
EPA proposes increasing and revising the individu al tolerances to cr op group tolerances for 
carbaryl residues of concern in/on "beet, ga rden, tops and turnip, greens from 12 ppm and 
salsify, tops from 10 ppm to vegetable, leaves  of root and tuber, group 2 except sugar beet 
tops at 75 ppm"; and "potato from 0.2(N) ppm to vegetable, root and tuber, group 1, except 
sugar beet and sweet potato at 2 ppm". 
EPA proposes increasing and removing tolerances  for the combined carbaryl residues of 
concern in/on cattle, goat, hog, horse and sheep fat from 0.1 to 0.5 ppm; cattle, goat, hog, 
horse and sheep meat from 0.1 to 1.0 ppm; cattle, goat, hog, horse and sheep meat by-
products from 0.1 to 3.0 ppm; a nd milk from 0.3 to 1.0 ppm; and remove the tolerances in/on 
cattle, goat, swine, horse and sh eep liver and kidney at 1 ppm. 
EPA proposes decreasing, establis hing, and revising the tolerances carbaryl residues of 
concern in/on alfalfa from 100 to 50 ppm; alfalf a, hay from 100 to 75 ppm; banana from 10 to 
5 ppm; beet, sugar, tops from 100 to 25 ppm; clover from 100 to clover, forage at 50 ppm; clover, hay from 100 to 70 ppm; "corn, sweet, ke rnel plus cob with husks removed'' from 5 to 
0.1 ppm; corn, stover at 100 ppm to corn, field, stover at 20 ppm and corn, pop, stover at 
20 ppm; corn, forage at 100 ppm to corn, field, forage at 30 ppm; cranberry from 10 to 3 ppm; 
flax, seed from 5 to 0.5 ppm; grass, hay from 100 to 15 ppm; millet, proso, grain from 3 to 1 ppm; millet, proso, straw from 100 to 20 ppm; okra from 10 to 4 ppm; peanut from 5 to 0.05 ppm; peanut, hay from 100 to 20 ppm; pistac hio from 1 to 0.1 ppm; prickly pear cactus, 
fruit from 12 ppm to cactus, fruit at 5 ppm; rice, straw from 100 to 60 ppm; sorghum, forage 
from 100 to sorghum, grain, forage at 30 ppm; soybean from 5 to soybean, seed at 0.5 ppm; 
soybean, forage from 100 to 15 ppm; soybean, hay from 100 to 15 ppm; strawberry from 10 to 4 ppm; sunflower, seed from 1 to 0.5 ppm; trefoil, forage from 100 to 15 ppm; trefoil, 
hay from 100 to 25 ppm; wheat, grain from 3 to 1 ppm; wheat, hay from 100 to 30; wheat, straw from 100 to 20 ppm, and establishing co rn, field, grain at 0.02; corn, pop, grain at 
0.02 ppm; and wheat, forage at 30 ppm. 
EPA proposes increasing and revisi ng the tolerances for carbaryl residues of concern in/on 
almond, hulls from 40 to 50 ppm; asparagus fro m 10 to 15 ppm; cabbage from 10 to 21 ppm; 
corn, stover from 100 ppm to corn, sweet, stover at 215 ppm; corn, forage from 100 ppm to corn, sweet, forage at 185 ppm; dandelion, le aves from 12 to 22 ppm; parsley, leaves from 
12 to 22 ppm; rice, grain from 5 to 15 ppm; fruit, pome at 10 ppm to fruit, pome, group 11 at 
12 ppm; spinach from 12 to 22 ppm. 
EPA proposes revising the tolerances for carbar yl residues of concern in/on apricot; cherry; 
nectarine; peach; plum, prune, fresh at 10 ppm to fruit, stone, group 12 at 10 ppm; 
"blackberry, boysenberry, dewberry, loganberry, raspberry at 12 ppm to caneberry subgroup 
13-07A at 12 ppm"; "broccoli; Brussels sprouts; cabbage, Chinese; cauliflower; collards; 
kohlrabi; and mustard greens from 10 ppm and kale and mustard greens from 12 ppm to 
vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5, except cab bage at 10 ppm"; bean and pea (with pods) at 
10 ppm to vegetable, legume, edible-podded s ubgroup 6A at 10 ppm; prickly pear cactus, 
pads to cactus, pads; sorghum, grain to sorghum,  grain, grain; dill, fresh to dillweed, fresh 
leaves; fruit, citrus to fruit, citrus, group 10; and grass to grass, forage.   G/SPS/N/USA/1807 
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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:  
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [   ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:  The proposed tolerance actions herein for 
carbaryl, to implement the recommendations of th e carbaryl RED, reflect use patterns in the 
US which support a different tole rance than the Codex level on:  pome fruit group 11; sugar 
beet root; vegetable, root and tuber, group 1,  except sugar beet and sweet potato; field and 
sweet corn stover; cattle, goat, hog, horse, a nd sheep meat; rice grain, hulls, and straw; 
soybean, seed; sunflower seed; sorghum forage; tree nut group 14; wheat straw, grain, fodder 
and bran; because of differences in good agricultur al practices.  However,  compatibility exists 
for stone fruit, and will exist based on this to lerance action for carbaryl residues in or on 
almond hulls; asparagus; vegetabl e, fruiting, group 8; cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep meat 
by-products (including liver and kidney); field corn/maize; sweet corn; wheat germ and flour. 
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 :   
21 May 2008 (Volume 73, Number 99)  Proposed Rules Page 29456-29471; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/E PA-PEST/2008/May/Day-21/p11420.htm  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This is a proposed rule which may or may not result in 
further regulatory action. 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 21 July 2008, and may 
be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-1170. 
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 Pe sticide Programs, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notificati on authority, [   ] Na tional enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Aut hority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, 
International Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 
20250;  Tel:  +(1 202) 720 1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 720 0433;  E-mail:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov