WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1122 
30 September 2005 
 (05-4350) 
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):  Almond; almond, hulls; apple; aprico t; banana; bean, lima; bean, snap, 
succulent; beet, garden, roots. beet, garden, tops; beet, sugar, roots; beet, sugar, tops; 
blackberry; blueberry; carrot, roots; cattle, fat; cherry; citrus; corn, field, forage; corn, 
sweet, forage; corn, sweet, kernel plus c ob with husks removed; cranberry; cucumber 
endive; fig; Filbert ginseng, roots; grape hop, dried cones; kiwifruit; lettuce; loganberry; 
melon; mushroom; nectarine; olive; onion, dry bulb; onion, green; parsley, leaves;  parsnip; 
peach; pear; pea, field, hay; pea, field, vi nes; pea, succulent; pepper; pineapple; plum, 
prune, fresh; potato; potato, sweet; radicchio; radish; raspberry; sheep, meat (fat basis), sheep, fat; sheep, meat by-products (fat basis); spinach; squash, summer; squash, winter; 
strawberry; Swiss chard; tomato; turnip, green s turnip, roots; vegetable, brassica, leafy, 
group 5, walnut; watercress; corn, field, forage; corn, field, grain; corn, field, stover; corn, 
pop, grain; corn, pop, stover; corn, sweet, fo rage; corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with 
removed; corn, sweet, stover; sunflower, seed ; bean, succulent; canola, seed; cattle, fat; 
cattle, meat; cattle, meat by-products; egg; goa t, fat; goat, meat; goat, meat by-products; 
grape, wine; hog, fat; hog, meat; hog, meat by -products; horse, fat; horse, meat; horse, meat 
by-products; lettuce, head; lettuce, leaf; milk; poultry, fat; poultry, meat; poultry, meat by-
products; sheep, meat; sheep, meat by products ki wi, chicory, lettuce, and succulent beans, 
grapefruit, lemons, oranges, and corn grain for feed use only, barley, buckwheat, corn 
(including popcorn), oats, rice, rye, grain sorghum, and wheat, alfalfa, fresh; alfalfa, hay; guar, seed; clover, forage; clover, hay; co tton, undelinted seed; cowpea; cowpea, forage; 
lespedeza; sorghum, forage; and sorghum, grain, animal feed and processed food  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
U.S. trade partners.  
5. Title, language and number of p ages of the notified document:  FINAL RULE.  
Aminopyridine, Ammonia, Chloropicrin, Diazinon, Dihydro-5-heptyl-2(3H)-furanone, 
Dihydro-5-pentyl-2(3H)-furanone, and Vinclo zolin; Tolerance Actions (Available in 
English, 5 pages).  G/SPS/N/USA/1122 
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6. Description of content:  EPA is revoking specific tolerances and tolerance exemptions for 
residues of the bird repellent 4-aminopyridine, fungicides ammonia and vinclozolin, and insecticides chloropicrin, diazinon, dihydro-5- heptyl-2(3H)-furanone, and dihydro-5-pentyl-
2(3H)-furanone.  EPA canceled food use re gistrations or deleted food uses from 
registrations following requests for voluntary cance llation or use deletion by the registrants, 
or non-payment of registration maintenance fees. 
 In addition, EPA is extending the expiration/revo cation date for the tolerance for vinclozolin 
residues of concern in or on bean, succulent from 30 September to 30 November 2005.  No comments were received by the Agency concerning the following actions regarding 
vinclozolin that were proposed on 18 May 2005.  In the Federal Register notice of 
22 August 2001 (66 FR 44134) (FRL-6795-7), EPA  announced use cancellations for certain 
vinclozolin registrations, including uses of the fungicide vinclozolin on kiwi, chicory, lettuce, and succulent beans with a last date  for legal use as 30 January 2004; 30 January 
2004; 30 November 2005, and 30 November 2005, respectively.  The Agency believes that 
end users have had sufficient time to exhaus t existing stocks and for treated kiwi and 
chicory commodities to have cleared the channe ls of trade.  Further, pursuant to FFDCA 
section 408(l)(5), treated lettuce and succulent bean commodities that have been legally 
treated on or before 30 November 2005 and who se residues are within the tolerance set to 
expire on that date, will not be considered adulterated, even if they have not yet cleared 
channels of trade.  Therefore, EPA is revoking  the tolerances for th e combined residues of 
the fungicide vinclozolin and its metabolites containing the 3,5-dichloroaniline moiety in or 
on Belgian endive, tops and kiwifruit on the date  of publication of the final rule; and also 
lettuce, head and lettuce, leaf; each with an  expiration/revocation date of 30 November 
2005.  
EPA is also revoking the tolerance exemptions  in for residues of the fungicide ammonia 
when used after harvest on grapefruit, lemons, oranges, and corn grain for feed use only.  
EPA is revoking the tolerance exemptions for residues of chloropicr in when used as a 
fumigant after harvest on barley, buckwheat, corn  (including popcorn), oats, rice, rye, grain 
sorghum, and wheat.  The Agency is also revoking the tolerances for residues of the 
insecticide diazinon in or on alfalfa, fresh; alfa lfa, hay; guar, seed; clover, forage; clover, 
hay; cotton, undelinted seed; cowpea; cowpea,  forage; lespedeza; sorghum, forage; and 
sorghum, grain.  EPA is revoking the tolerance exemptions in  for residues of the insecticide dihydro-5-
heptyl-2(3H)-furanone in or on animal feed and processed food. 
Also, EPA is removing dihydro-5-heptyl-2 (3H)-furanone from the tolerance exemption 
expression for d-Limonene.  
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,  [   ] None 
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    G/SPS/N/USA/1122 
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9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
21 September 2005 Volume 70, Number 182, Pages 55263-55268, http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/ 2005/September/Day-21/p18579.htm  Available in 
English.  
10. Proposed date of adoption:   
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  21 September 2005.   EPA issued numerous proposed 
rules for these actions beginning in 2001.   Additional information about the proposed rules 
and EPA's response to comments received can be  found in this Federal Register notice.    
12. Final date for comments:  Objections or requests for hearings on these actions must be 
received on or before 21 November 2005 iden tified by docket ID number OPP-2005-0209. 
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 (7505c), 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:   
Ms. Julie Morin, United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign 
Agricultural Service, Food Safety & Technical Services Division, Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250.  Tel:  202-720-4051;  Fax:  202-690-0677;  Email:  fstsd@usda.gov