. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1585 
12 June 2007  
 (07-2453) 
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):  Sunflower, cotton, soybean, corn, grain,  straw, sorghum, hay, beans, cowpea 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable :  Any 
US trade partners  
5. Title, language and number of p ages of the notified document:  NOTICE.   Notice of 
Filing of Pesticide Petitions for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various 
Commodities (available in English, 4 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This notification proposes to establish a tolerance for residues of 
the herbicide alachlor, [2-chloro-2',6'-diethyl-N-(methoxymethyl) acetanilide] and its metabolites which can be converted to 2, 6-diethylaniline (DEA) or 2-ethyl-6-(1-
hydroxyethyl)aniline (HEEA) upon basic hydrolysis, calculated as alachlor, in or on food commodities cotton, gin byproducts at 0.7 ppm; cotton, undelinted seed at 0.03 ppm; 
sunflower, seed at 2.5 ppm, soybean at 1.0 ppm, grain, cereal group 15, except corn, rice 
and sorghum at 0.05 ppm; grain, cereal, forage, fodder, and straw, group 16, except corn, rice, corn, fodder, and corn, forage at 2.0 ppm and sorghum forage at 0.6 ppm; hay and straw at 0.8 ppm; and nongrass animal feed, crop group 18, forage at 1.4 ppm and hay at 1.2 ppm; and in the processed commodity sunflower, seed meal at 3.4 ppm, beans, dry and beans, succulent lima at 0.1 ppm; cowpea, fo rage and cowpea, hay at 5.0 ppm.  Current 
tolerances for bean, forage and bean, hay at 0.2 ppm are to be revoked as these are no 
longer significant animal feed commodities. 
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/1585 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
Federal Register: 9 May 2007 (Volume 72, Number 89) Notices Page 26372-26375; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/May/Day-09/p8945.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This is a notice of availability which may or may not 
result in further regulatory action. 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 8 June 2007, and 
may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0146. 
Agency or authority designated to handl e 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 notification authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail add ress (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  
+(202) 720-1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 69 0-0677;  E-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov