. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1797 
27 May 2008  
 (08-2456) 
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):  Cotton, cattle, egg, goat, hog, horse, pou ltry, sheep, milk, cereal grain, soybean, 
rice, wheat 
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 fluometuron in or on the following commodity(ies) be established at 
or changed to the following values in parts per million (ppm), or be el iminated, as indicated 
below:  
EPA proposes revising the tolerance expression for plants and 180.229(d) for the combined 
residues of the herbicide fluometuron (N,N-dimethyl-N'-(3-trifluoromethyl)phenyl)urea) and its metabolite trifluoromethylaniline (TFMA)  determined as TFMA. EPA also proposes 
revising the tolerance expression for livestock for the combined residues of the herbicide 
fluometuron (N,N-dimethyl-N'-(3-trifluoromethyl)phenyl)urea), its metabolites determined as TFMA, and the hydroxylated metabolites [C GA-236431 (1-(4-hydroxy-3-trifluoromethyl-
phenyl)urea), CGA-236432 (1-methyl-3-(4-hyd roxy-3-trifluoromethylphenyl)urea), CGA-
13211 (1,1-dimethyl-3-(4-hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylphenyl)urea)]. 
EPA proposes increasing the tolerance for the combined residues of fluometuron and its 
metabolites of concern in/on cotton, undeli nted seed from 0.1 ppm to 1.0 ppm and 
establishing a tolerance in/on cotto n, gin by-products at 3.5 ppm. 
EPA proposes establishing tolerances for the combined residues of fluometuron and its 
metabolites of concern in cattle, meat by-products ; egg; goat, meat by-products; hog, meat by-
products; horse, meat by-produc ts; poultry, fat; poultry, meat; poultry, meat by-products; and 
sheep, meat by-products at 0. 1 ppm and milk at 0.02 ppm. 
EPA proposes establishing tolerances for the combined residues of fluometuron and its 
metabolites of concern in grain,  cereal, group 15 at 0.5 ppm; gr ain, cereal, forage, group 16 at G/SPS/N/USA/1797 
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  3.0 ppm; grain, cereal, fodder and straw, group 16 at 6.0 ppm; peanut at 0.1 ppm; peanut, hay 
at 4.0 ppm; soybean, seed at 2.0 ppm; soybean, forage at 3.0 ppm; and soybean, hay at 3.0 ppm. 
EPA proposes establishing tolerances for the combined residues of fluometuron and its 
metabolites of concern in peanut, meal at 0.2 pp m; rice, hulls at 1.0 ppm; and wheat, milled 
by-products at 1.0 ppm. 
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:    
9. Relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:   Registration Division, 
(7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Prot ection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001   
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  Federal Register:  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  
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