WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1296 
8 May 2006 
 (06-2196) 
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):  Globe artichokes, sugar beets, raspberries, safflower seeds, and sunflower 
seeds, almond, barley, grain, wheat, grain, barley, straw and wheat, straw.  Blueberry, broccoli, cabbage, celery, lettuce, oat, grain, oat,  straw, rye, grain, and rye, straw.  Cattle, 
fat;  goat, fat; hog, fat; horse, fat;  and sheep, fat cattle, meat byproducts, except liver; goat, 
meat byproducts, except liver;  hog, meat byproducts, except liver;  horse, meat byproducts, 
except liver;  and sheep, meat byproducts, excep t liver;  cattle, meat;  goat, meat;  hog, 
meat;  horse, meat;  and sheep, meat milk, fat cattle, liver;  goat, liver;  hog, liver; horse, 
liver; and sheep, liver.  Cucumber, melon, pum pkin, squash, summer;  and squash, winter 
eggplant;  tomato;  sweet potato, roots;  apple;  pineapple corn, sweet, forage;  corn, sweet, 
stover;  cotton, gin byproducts;  turnip, roots. 
Grape pomace (wet and dry, grape, raisin, waste;   grape, juice'' and ``grape, raisin;  banana; 
berry, group 13; cranberry; grape;   and ``strawberry;  rice, straw; barley, grain and sorghum, 
grain, grain.  Legume, forage;  vegetable, fo liage of legume, group 7'' alfalfa, forage;  
celery;  endive;  vegetable, leaves of root  and tuber, group 2;  and ``vegetable, brassica, 
leafy group 5.  Vegetable, root and tuber, group 1, except carrot'' and ``vegetable, bulb, 
group 3; vegetables, seed and pod'' vegetable, legume, group 6 and okra.  Alfalfa, hay;  
peanut, hay;  mustard, seed and almond, hulls .  Cotton, gin byproducts;  hop, dried cones 
and sorghum, grain, forage.  Broccoli;  Brussels sp routs;  carrot, root;  collards;  gooseberry; 
kale;  kohlrabi;  lettuce;  loganberry;  onion;  peanut;  pea;  radish, roots;  radish, tops; raspberry;  rutabaga, roots;  rutabaga, tops;  sp inach;  turnip, greens;  bean, and turnip, roots; 
and cauliflower;  boysenberry;  dewberry;  and youngberry;  pear;  and cherry;  and tomato.  
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.  
Endosulfan, Fenarimol, Imazalil, Oryzalin, S odium Acifluorfen, Trifluralin, and Ziram; 
Proposed Tolerance Actions (Availa ble in English, 12 pages).  
6. Description of content:  EPA is proposing to revoke, remove, modify, and establish 
specific tolerances for residues of the insec ticide endosulfan, the fungicides fenarimol, 
imazalil, and ziram; and the herbicides oryzalin , sodium acifluorfen, and trifluralin in or on 
commodities listed below. G/SPS/N/USA/1296 
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  EPA is proposing to revoke specific toleran ces for combined imazalil residues of concern 
on the fat, liver, meat, and meat byproducts of hogs because the Agency has concluded that 
there is no reasonable expectation of finite  residues in or on the commodities associated 
with the tolerances, and therefore these tolerances are no longer needed. 
1.  Endosulfan.  
Because no active registrations exist for use of  endosulfan on globe artichokes, sugar beets, 
raspberries, safflower seeds, and sunflower se eds, the tolerances are no longer needed.  
EPA is also proposing to increase the tole rance for combined endosulfan residues of 
concern in or on ``almond'' from 0.2 to 0.3 ppm. EPA is proposing to increase the tolerances for combined endosulfan residues of concern in 
or on ``barley, grain'' and ``wheat, grain'' fro m 0.1 to 0.3 ppm, and ``barley, straw'' and 
``wheat, straw'' from 0.2 to 0.4 ppm. EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``blueberry'' from 0.1 to 0.3 ppm. EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in 
or on ``broccoli'' from 2.0 to 3.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``cabbage'' from 2.0 to 4.0 ppm. EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``celery'' from 2.0 to 8.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to split the tolerance on lettu ce into ``lettuce, head''  and ``lettuce, leaf'' 
and increase them for combined endosulfan residues of concern from 2.0 to 11.0 and 6.0 ppm, respectively. EPA is proposing to increase the tolerances for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``oat, grain'' from 0.1 to 0.3 ppm;  ``oat, straw'' from 0.2 to 0.4 ppm;  ``rye, grain'' from 0.1 to 0.3 ppm;  and rye, straw from 0.2 to 0.3 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to increase the commodity to lerances for combined endosulfan residues 
of concern in or on ``cattle, fat''; ``goat, fat'';  ``hog, fat'';  ``horse, fat'';  and ``sheep, fat'' 
from 0.2 to 13.0 ppm;  ``cattle, meat byproduc ts, except liver'';  ``goat, meat byproducts, 
except liver'';  ``hog, meat byproducts, except liver'';  ``horse, meat byproducts, except liver'';  and ``sheep, meat byproducts, except liv er'' from 0.2 to 1.0 ppm;  ``cattle, meat''; 
``goat, meat'';  ``hog, meat'';  ``horse, meat '';  and ``sheep, meat'' from 0.2 to 2.0 ppm; 
``milk, fat (=N in whole milk)''from 0.5 to 2. 0 ppm;  and establish tolerances at 5.0 ppm for 
``cattle, liver'';  ``goat, liver'';  ``hog, liver '';  ``horse, liver'';  and ``sheep, liver.'' 
EPA is proposing to combine the individua l tolerances on cucumber, melon, pumpkin, 
squash, summer; and squash, winter into ``v egetable, cucurbit, group 9'' and decrease the 
tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern from 2.0 to 1.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerances for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``eggplant'' from 2.0 to 1.0 ppm and ``tomato'' from 2.0 to 1.0 ppm. EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in 
or on ``sweet potato, roots'' from 0.2 to 0.15 ppm. EPA is proposing to decrease the toleran ce in 40 CFR 180.182(a)(1) for combined 
endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``apple'' from 2.0 to 1.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to establish a tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``apple, wet pomace'' at 5.0 ppm. EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in 
or on ``pineapple'' from 2.0 to 1.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to establish a tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or 
on ``pineapple, process residue'' at 20.0 ppm.  EPA is proposing to establish tolerances for co mbined endosulfan residues of concern in or 
on ``corn, sweet, forage'' at 12.0 ppm and ``corn, sweet, stover'' at 14.0 ppm.   G/SPS/N/USA/1296 
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  EPA is proposing to establish a tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or 
on ``cotton, gin byproducts'' at 30.0 ppm. EPA is proposing to establish a tolerance for combined endosulfan residues of concern in or on ``turnip, roots'' at 0.2 ppm. 
2.  Fenarimol.  
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances for re sidues of the fungicide fenarimol in or on 
``apple, dry pomace'';  and for residues of the fungicide fenarimol and its metabolites in or 
on ``grape pomace (wet and dry) '' and ``grape, raisin, waste. 
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances for residues of the fungicide fenarimol and its 
metabolites in or on ``grape, juice'' and ``grape, raisin.'' 
EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerances for residues of the fungicide fenarimol in or on 
``cattle, fat'';  ``cattle, kidney;  ``goat, fat'';  `` goat, kidney'';  ``horse, fat'';  ``horse, kidney''; 
``sheep, fat'';  and ``sheep, kidney'';  each from 0.1 to 0.01 ppm, and to maintain the 
tolerances at 0.01 ppm for ``cattle, meat'';  ``goat, meat'';  ``horse, meat'';  and ``sheep, meat.'' 
EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerance for residues of fenarimol in or on ``apple, wet 
pomace'' from 2.0 to 0.3 ppm. EPA is proposing to recodify the tolerance fo r residues of fenarimol and its metabolites in 
or on ``grape'' at 0.2 ppm and to decrease the tolerance from 0.2 to 0.1 ppm. EPA is proposing to revise the tolerance commodity terminology from ``banana (Not more 
than 0.25 ppm shall be present in the pulp afte r peel is removed)'' to ``banana'' and decrease 
the tolerance from 0.5 to 0.25 ppm. 
3.  Imazalil.  
EPA is proposing to amend the tolerance expression for livestock commodities for imazalil 
to regulate imazalil, 3-[2-(2,4-dichlorop henyl)-2-(2,3-dihydroxypropoxy)ethyl]-2,4-
imidazolidinedione (FK772), and 3-[2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-2-(hydroxy)]-2,4-
imidazolidinedione (FK284). 
EPA is proposing to revoke tolerances for comb ined imazalil residues of concern in or on 
the following:  ``Hog, fat'';  ``hog, liver'';  ``hog, meat'';  and ``hog, meat byproducts.'' EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance fo r combined imazalil residues of concern in 
milk to 0.02 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to increase the tolerances for ``cattle, meat byproducts'';  ``goat, meat 
byproducts'';  ``horse, meat byproducts'';  a nd ``sheep, meat byproducts'' from 0.01 to 0.2 
ppm.  EPA is proposing to remove current tolerances for ``cattle, liver'';  ``goat, liver''; ``horse, liver'';  and ``sheep, liver'' rather than modify them because these commodities 
would be covered. 
The Agency is proposing to increase tolerances  for residues of imazalil in or on ``barley, 
grain'' and ``wheat, grain'' from 0.05 to 0.1 ppm. EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance for r esidues of imazalil  in ``citrus oil'' from 25.0 
to 200.0 ppm. EPA is proposing to establish separate tolerances for residues of imazalil in or on ``barley, 
hay'' and ``wheat, hay'' at 0.5 ppm each. 
4.  Oryzalin.  
EPA is proposing to revise the commodity terminology ``small fruit'' at 0.05 ppm into 
individual tolerances for ``berry, group 13'';  ``cranberry'';  ``grape'';  and ``strawberry'' each 
at 0.05 ppm.  
EPA is proposing to revise commodity terminol ogy to conform to current Agency practice 
as follows:  ``Fruit, citrus'' to ``fruit, citrus , group 10'';  ``fruit, pome'' to ``fruit, pome, group 
11'' and ``fruit, stone'' to ``fruit, stone, group 12.''  G/SPS/N/USA/1296 
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   5.  Sodium acifluorfen.  
EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance for ``rice, straw'' in 40 CFR 180.383 from 0.1 to 
0.2 ppm. 
6.  Trifluralin.  
EPA is proposing in 40 CFR 180.207 to revoke the group tolerance ``grain, crop, except 
corn, sweet and rice grain'' and establish individual tolerances for ``barley, grain'' and 
``sorghum, grain, grain;'' each at 0.05 ppm. EPA is proposing to revise the commodity to lerance for ``legume, forage'' in 40 CFR 
180.207 at 0.05 ppm into ``vegetable, foliage of legume, group 7'' at 0.05 ppm and an individual tolerance for ``alfalfa, forage,'' incr easing the tolerance for ``alfalfa, forage'' from 
0.05 to 3.0 ppm. 
EPA is proposing for residues of trifluralin to  remove the commodity group ``vegetable, 
leafy, except brassica'' and replace it with sep arate tolerances for ``celery''; ``endive''; 
``vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 2'';   and ``vegetable, brassica, leafy group 5'' at 
0.05 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to revise the commodity tolera nce for ``vegetable, root (exc. carrot)'' at 
0.05 ppm to ``vegetable, root and tuber, group 1, except carrot'' and ``vegetable, bulb, group 
3,'' each at 0.05 ppm. EPA is proposing, in 40 CFR 180. 207, for resides of trifluralin to revise the commodity tolerance for ``vegetables, seed and pod'' in  40 CFR 180.207 at 0.05 ppm to ``vegetable, 
legume, group 6'' and ``okra,'' each at 0.05 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to increase the tolerance in 40 CFR 180.207 for residues of trifluralin in or on ``alfalfa, hay'' from 0.2 to 2.0 ppm. EPA is proposing to establish a tolerance for residue s of trifluralin in or on ``peanut, hay'' at 
0.05 ppm. EPA is proposing to establish tolerances for r esidues of trifluralin in or on ``mustard, seed'' 
and ``almond, hulls;'' each at 0.05 ppm. 
EPA is proposing to establish a tolerance for re sidues of trifluralin in or on ``cotton, gin 
byproducts'' at 0.05 ppm. EPA is proposing to revise commodity terminol ogy to conform to current Agency practice 
as follows:  ``Hop'' is proposed to be cha nged to read ``hop, dried cones'' and ``sorghum, 
forage'' is proposed to be change d to read ``sorghum, grain, forage.'' 
7.  Ziram.  
EPA is proposing to amend the tolerance expression for residues of ziram (zinc 
dimethyldithiocarbamate), from calculated as zineb (zinc ethylenebisdithiocarbamate) to 
calculated as zineb (zinc ethylenebi sdithiocarbamate) and carbon disulfide. 
Because the associated commodity registrations  have not been active since 1991 and the 
tolerances are no longer needed, EPA is pr oposing to revoke tolerances for residues of 
ziram in or on the following:  ``Broccoli'';  ``Brus sel sprouts'';  ``carrot, root'';  ``collards''; 
``gooseberry'';  ``kale'';  ``kohlrabi'';  ``lettuce'';  ``loganberry'';  ``onion'';  ``peanut'';  ``pea''; ``radish, roots'';  ``radish, tops'';  ``raspberry '';  ``rutabaga, roots'';  ``rutabaga, tops''; 
``spinach'';  ``turnip, greens'';  and ``turnip, roots.''  EPA is proposing to revoke, tolerances 
for residues of ziram in or on the following:   ``Bean'';  ``celery'';  ``cranberry''; 
``cucumber'';  ``melon'';  ``pumpkin'';   ``squash'';  and ``squash, summer.'' 
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances for zi ram residues in or on ``beet, garden, roots''; 
``beet, garden, tops'';  ``cabbage'';  and ``cau liflower'' each with an expiration/revocation 
date of 15 January 2007. 
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances  for ``boysenberry'';  ``dewberry'';  and 
``youngberry.'' EPA is proposing to remove the tolerance for residues of ziram in or on ``nectarine.''   G/SPS/N/USA/1296 
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EPA is proposing to establish a tolerance for ``almond, hulls'' at 20.0 ppm. EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerances from 7.0 to 6.0 ppm for the following: ``Apple'';  ``pear'';  and ``cherry.'' EPA is proposing to decrease the tolerance for ``tomato'' from 7.0 to 2.0 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:  Federal Register: 
26 April 2006 (Volume 71, Number 80, Pages 24615-24627,  
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/April/Day-26/p6207.htm  (Available in 
English).  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Not specified.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  Not specified. 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments should be received on or before 26 June 2006. 
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:  Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), 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 Deborah Thompson, Acting, United Stat es 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; E-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov