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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1417 
13 September 2006 
 (06-4368) 
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):  Insecticides and/ or larvicides used on va rious crops, animal premises, aquatic 
areas, fungicides, herbicides, and virucides.  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
US trade partners.  
5. Title, language and number of p ages of the notified document:  Notice.  Aliphatic 
Solvents; Re-registration Eligibility Decision for Low Risk Pesticide; Notice of Availability 
(Available in English, 2 pages).  
6. Description of content:  This notice announces the availability of EPA's Re-registration 
Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide a liphatic solvents, and opens a public comment 
period on this document, related risk assessments, and other support documents. 
Aliphatic solvents are the product of petroleu m distillations processes, and thus, they are 
complex mixtures of long-chain aliphatic (para ffinic) compounds.  They are formulated for 
use as insecticides and/or larvicides on crops , animal premises, commercial/industrial 
premises, medical premises, aquatic areas, a nd residential premises, as well as occupational 
and residential uses as acaricides, fungicides, he rbicides, and virucides (for plant pathogen). 
The aquatic area applications are for u sage as a mosquito larvicides/pupacide.  
7. Objective and rationale: [   ] 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:   G/SPS/N/USA/1417 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
23 August 2006 (Volume 71, Number 163, Page:  49443-49445),  http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- PEST/2006/August/Day-23/p13856.htm , Available in 
English.  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Not specified. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  N/A - This is a notice of availability and may or may 
not result in a future regulatory action.  A notice invites the public to submit additional scientific information and comments to the Agency.    
12. Final date for comments:  Comments should be received on or before 23 October 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 Re-registrati on Division (7508P), 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, United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign 
Agricultural Service, Food Safety & Technical Services Division, Stop 1027, Washington 
D.C. 20250.  Tel:  202-720-1301;  Fax:  202-690-0677;  Email:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov