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G/SPS/N/USA/2270 
20 September 2011  
 (11-4542) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  US Environmental Protection Agency 
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):  Drexel basic kopper sulfate 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Notice of Intent to Suspend Certain Pesticide 
Registrations  Language(s):  English  Number of pages:  3 
 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-08-29/html/2011-21990.htm  
6. Description of content:  This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's 
intent to suspend the registration of Drex el basic Kopper sulfate, on account of the 
registrant's failure to provide the data requi red to maintain the registration.  After the 
suspension becomes final and effective, the regi strant subject to this notice, including all 
supplemental registrants of the product, may not legally distribute, sell, use, offer for sale, 
hold for sale, ship, deliver for shipment, or recei ve and (having so received) deliver or offer 
to deliver, to any person, the product listed above. 
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)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[X] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No G/SPS/N/USA/2270 
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   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:      
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  30 days after the date of the registrant's receipt of the mailed Notice of Intent 
to Suspend, or 30 days after the date of publica tion of this notice in the Federal Register (if 
the Administrator is unable to accomplish deliver y to the registrant after making reasonable 
efforts to do so).  This will not  be before 28 September 2011. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  Veronica Dutch, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, Office of 
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protec tion Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone numb er: (703) 308-8585; e-mail address: 
Dutch.Veronica@epa.gov.  Please reference docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0848. 
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 Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 202) 720 1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 720 0433;  E-mail:  us.s psenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov