WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1687 
22 August 2007  
 (07-3528) 
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 numb er(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Barley, buckwheat, millet, oat, rice, rye, wheat, cattle, goat, sheep, horse, 
poultry, egg, cabbage, celery, stone fruit, bell pe pper, milo, corn, sorhum, soybean, seed and 
pod vegetables, pea, shelled bean, succulent bean, peanut, pea, cotton, onion, fruiting 
vegetable 
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:  PROPOSED RULE : 
Acephate, Chlorpyrifos, Fenbutatin-Oxide (Hex akis), Metolachlor, MCPA, Pyrethrins and 
Triallate; Proposed Tolerance Actions  (available in English, 23 pages) 
6. Description of content:  By means of this proposed rule:  
EPA proposes transferring tolerances for th e combined residues (free and bound) of the 
herbicide metolachlor in or on barley, grain at 0.1; barley straw at 0.5 ppm; buckwheat, grain 
at 0.1 ppm; millet, fodder at 0.5 ppm; millet, forage at 0.5 ppm; millet, grain at 0.1 ppm; oat, forage 0.5 ppm; oat, grain at 0.1 ppm; oat, stra w at 0.5 ppm; rice, grain at 0.1 ppm; rice, straw 
at 0.5 ppm; rye, forage 0.5 ppm; rye, grain at 0.1 ppm; rye, straw at 0.5 ppm; wheat, forage at 0.5 ppm; wheat, grain at 0.1 ppm; and wheat,  straw at 0.5 ppm; decreasing and revising 
nongrass animal feed (forage, fodder, straw, and hay), group 18 from 3.0 to animal feed, 
nongrass, group 18 at 1.0 ppm; revising millet, fodder to millet, straw. 
EPA proposes increasing the tolerances for th e combined metolachlor residues of concern 
in/on cattle, fat; goat, fat; horse, fat; and sheep,  fat from 0.02 to 0.04 ppm; cattle, liver; goat, 
liver; horse, liver; and sheep, li ver from 0.05 to 0.10 ppm; ca ttle, meat; goat, meat; horse, 
meat; and sheep, meat from 0.02 to 0.04 ppm;  cattle, meat byproducts (except kidney and 
liver); goat, meat byproducts (except kidney and liver); hor se, meat byproducts (except 
kidney and liver); and sheep, meat byproducts (except kidney and liver) from 0.02 to 0.04 
ppm; egg; poultry, fat; poultry, meat; and poultry, meat byproducts (except liver) from 0.02 to 0.04 ppm; revoking poultry, liver at 0.05 ppm and revising poultry meat byproducts (except 
liver) to poultry meat byproducts. The Agency de termined that the increased tolerances are 
safe; i.e. there is a reasonable certainty that no harm will result from aggregate exposure to the 
pesticide chemical residue. 
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  EPA proposes revoking the tolerances for the combined residues of  metolachlor in/on 
cabbage at 1.0 ppm; celery at 0.1 ppm; fruit, stone, group 12 at 0.1 ppm; bell, pepper at 0.1 ppm; milo, fodder 0.5 ppm; milo, forage at 0.5 pp m; milo, grain at 0.1 ppm; peanut, forage at 
30 ppm and rice, forage at 0.5 ppm. 
EPA proposes decreasing the tolerances for the combined residues of metolachlor in/on corn, 
fodder from 8.0 to 6.0 ppm; corn, forage from 8.0 to 6.0 ppm; peanut from 0.5 to 0.20 ppm; 
and peanut, hay from 30 to 20.0 ppm; and sorghum, forage from 2.0 to 1.0 ppm; soybean, forage from 8.0 to 5.0 ppm; increasing sorghu m, fodder from 2.0 to 4.0 ppm; and revising 
corn, fodder to corn, field, stover and corn, swee t, stover; corn, forage to corn, field, forage 
and corn, sweet, forage; corn, grain to corn, fiel d, grain; sorghum, forage to sorghum, grain, 
forage; sorghum, fodder to sorghum, grain, stover; sorghum, grain to sorghum, grain, grain 
and soybean to soybean, seed. 
EPA proposes decreasing and separating the tolera nces for the combined metolachlor residues 
of concern from soybean, forage and hay at 8.0 ppm to soybean, forage at 5.0 ppm and soybean, hay at 8.0 ppm. 
EPA proposes revising the tolerances for the comb ined metolachlor residues of concern in/on 
seed and pod vegetables (except soybean) at 0.3 ppm to vegetable, legume, edible podded, 
subgroup 6A at 0.5 ppm; pea and bean, succulen t shelled, subgroup 6B at 0.3 ppm; and pea 
and bean, dried shelled, subgroup 6C, except soybean at 0.10 ppm. 
EPA proposes establishing tolerances for the comb ined metolachlor residues of concern in/on 
cotton, gin byproducts at 4.0 ppm and peanut, meal at 0.40 ppm. 
EPA is revising commodity terminology to current Agency practice.  Therefore, EPA 
proposes revising the tolerance from nongrass, an imal feed (forage, fodde r, straw, hay) group 
18 to animal feed, nongrass, group 18 and revi sing the tolerance from vegetable, fruiting 
group 8, (except tabasco peppe r) to vegetable, fruiting, group 8, except nonbell pepper and 
onion, dry bulb to onion, bulb. 
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:   F e d e r a l  R e g i s t e r :  
8 August 2007 (Volume 72, Number 152) Proposed Rules Page 44439-44451; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA -PEST/2007/August/Day-08/p15336.htm  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This is a proposed rule which may or may not result in a 
future regulatory action.  G/SPS/N/USA/1687 
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  12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 9 October 2007, and 
may be identified by docke t number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0445. 
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), Of fice of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Penn sylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001  
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notificati on authority, [   ] Na tional enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if ava ilable) of other body:  United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Divi sion (IRSD), Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 690-0677;  E- mail:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov