. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1566 
1 June 2007 
 (07-2245) 
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):   Cattle, cotton, beans, soybeans, beets, and hay  
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. 
Chloroneb, Cypermethrin, Methidathion, Nitrapyrin, Oxyfluorfen, Pirimiphos-Methyl, 
Sulfosate, Tebuthiuron, Thiabendazole, Thid iazuron, and Tribuphos; Proposed Tolerance 
Actions (available in English, 4 pages) 
6. Description of content:  EPA is proposing to revoke curre nt tolerances on cotton, forage 
for chloroneb.  Based on available data from beans, undelinted cottonseed, soybeans, 
sugarbeet roots and sugarbeet tops that showed  combined chloroneb residues of concern at 
< 0.1 ppm, EPA determined that these tolerances should be increased from 0.1 ppm and set at the limit of quantitation (LOQ) of 0.2 ppm.   Therefore, the Agency is proposing to 
increase tolerances to 0.2 ppm for the following:   bean and revise to bean, dry, seed and 
bean, succulent; beet, sugar, roots; beet, s ugar, tops; cotton, undelinted seed; and soybean 
and revise to soybean, seed.  Therefore, the Agency is proposing to establish tolerances on 
cowpea, hay and soybean, hay, each at 2.0 pp m.  Based on cotton metabolism data that 
showed combined chloroneb residues of con cern from cottonseed treatment were as high as 
0.256 ppm on cotton gin byproducts, EPA dete rmined that a tolerance on cotton gin 
byproducts should be established at 1.0 ppm . Therefore, the Agency is proposing to 
establish a tolerance on cotton, gin byproducts at  1.0 ppm.  In addition, EPA is proposing to 
revise commodity terminology to conform to  current Agency practice as follows: "bean, 
forage" to "cowpea, forage." 
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   G/SPS/N/USA/1566 
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  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:   
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
2 May 2007 (Volume 72, Number 84) Proposed Rules Page 24198-24213; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/May/Day-02/p8373.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  2 July 2007 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 2 July 2007, and may 
be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0036. 
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:  United 
States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, 
International Regulations and Standards Di vision (IRSD), Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 
20250.  Tel:  202-720-1301;  Fax:  2 02-690-0677;  E-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov