. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1651 
20 July 2007  
 (07-3114) 
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 numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Cranberry, pome fruit, stone fruit, orient al pear, peppermint, spearmint, turnip, 
brassica vegetable, cucurbit ve getable, leafy vegeta ble, tuberous vegetable, corm, apple, 
lettuce, potato, cherry, peach, collards 
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:  FINAL RULE .  
Indoxacarb; Pesticide Tolerance (ava ilable in English, 9 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes tolera nces for combined residues of 
indoxacarb and its R-enantiomer in or on cranberry; fruit, pome, except pear, group 11 at 
1 ppm; fruit, stone, group 12 at .9 ppm; grape at 2 ppm; grape, raisin at 5 ppm; okra at .5 
ppm; pea, southern, seed at .1 ppm; pear, orie ntal at .2 ppm; pepper mint, tops at 11 ppm; 
spearmint, tops at 11 ppm; turnip greens at 12 ppm; vegetable, Brassica, leafy, group 5 at 
12 ppm; vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 at .6 ppm;  vegetable, leafy, except Brassica, group 4 at 
14 ppm; and vegetable, tuberous  and corm, subgroup 1-C at .01 ppm.  This regulation also 
removes existing tolerances on apple; Brassica , head and stem, subgroup 5A; lettuce, head; 
lettuce, leaf; and potato, which are superseded  by the new tolerances; and removes expired 
time-limited tolerances on cherry, sweet; cherry, tart; peach; and collards; and the time-limited tolerance on cranberry (set to expire  31 December 2007), which are no longer needed 
as a result of this action.  
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [  ] 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/1651 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
11 July 2007 (Volume 72, Number 132) Ru les and Regulations Page 37633-37641; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA -PEST/2007/July/Day-11/p13339.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:   N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   This regulation is effective 11 July 2007. 
12. Final date for comments:  Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or 
before 10 September 2007, and may be iden tified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005 -
0149. 
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 Penn sylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [  ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail a ddress (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:  :+(1 202) 720-1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 690-0677;  E- mail:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov