. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1929 
29 May 2009  
 (09-2582) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES  
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency 
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):  Canola seed; corn, field, forage; corn, fiel d, grain; corn, field, stover; corn, 
pop, grain; corn, pop, stover; corn, sweet, forage; corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed; corn, sweet, stover; cotton, unde linted seed; cotton, gin byproducts; egg; 
sugarcane, cane and sugarcane, molasses 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ X ] All trading partners, or 
[   ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Metconazole; Pesticide Tolerances  Language:  English  
Number of pages:  8   
6. Description of content:  This final rule establishes tolerances for the residues of 
metconazole, 5-[(4-chlorophenyl)-methyl]-2,2-dimethyl-1-(1H-1,2,4- triazol-1-ylmethyl)cyclopentanol, including its metabolit es and degradates, in or on canola seed at 
0.04 ppm; corn, field, forage at 3.0 ppm; corn, field, grain at 0.02 ppm; corn, field, stover at 
4.5 ppm; corn, pop, grain at 0.02 ppm; corn, pop, stover at 4.5 ppm; corn, sweet, forage at 3.0 ppm; corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed at 0.01 ppm; corn, sweet, stover 
at 4.5 ppm; cotton, undelinted seed at 0.25 ppm ; cotton, gin byproducts at 8.0 ppm; egg at 
0.04 ppm; and time-limited tolerances for s ugarcane, cane at 1.6 ppm and sugarcane, 
molasses at 3.2 ppm. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection, 
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.    
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)    
[   ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)     G/SPS/N/USA/1929 
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  [   ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM N°)     
[ X ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [   ] Yes   [   ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  This 
document can be found in the Federal Regist er:  7 May 2009 (Volume 74, Number 87)] 
[Rules and Regulations] [Page 21260-21267] or online at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2009/May/Day-07/p10500.htm
.  This notice was 
published subsequent to a proposed rule of  November 5, 2008 found in the Federal 
Register (Volume 73, Number 215)][Notices][Page 65849-65852] found online at 
http://www.epa.gov/EPA-PEST/2008/November/Day-05/p26265.htm .   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  7 May 2009    
Propose date of publication ( dd/mm/yy) :  7 May 2009   
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [   ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  7 May 2009    
[   ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [   ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or ( dd/mm/yy ):  Objections and requests for hearings must be received on 
or before 6 July 2009. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National Notification 
Authority, [   ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   Libby Pemberton, Registration Division (7505P), Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protec tion Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; Tel: (703)308-9364; e-mail address: 
pemberton.libby@epa.gov 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National Notification Authority, [   ] National Enquiry 
Point.  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 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