. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1595 
13 June 2007  
 (07-2499) 
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):  Grass, corn, wheat, cattle, goat, hog, horse, sheep 
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:  FINAL RULE.  
Flufenacet; Pesticide Tolerance (a vailable in English, 7 pages) 
6. Description of content:  By this Final Rule, the tolerances are established for combined 
residues of flufenacet, acetamide and its meta bolites containing the 4-fluoro-N-methylethyl 
benzenamine moiety, in or on grass forage at 7.0 ppm, grass hay at 0.4 ppm, sweet corn forage at 0.45, sweet corn kernel plus c ob with husk removed at 0.05 ppm, sweet corn 
stover at 0.30 ppm, wheat bran at 0.80 ppm, wheat forage at 6.0 ppm, wheat grain at 0.60 ppm, wheat hay at 1.2 ppm, wheat straw at  0.35 ppm, cattle kidney at 0.05 ppm, goat 
kidney at 0.05 ppm, hog kidney at 0.05 ppm, horse kidney at 0.05 ppm, and sheep kidney 
at 0.05 ppm. The emergency for flufenacet exemption tolerances in or on wheat (forage, grain, hay, straw) and fat, kidney, meat, and meat byproducts of cattle, goat, hog, horse, 
and sheep are deleted. 
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: 
9 May 2007 (Volume 72, Number 89) Ru les and Regulations Page 26304-26310;  
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/May/Day-09/p8936.htm G/SPS/N/USA/1595 
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  10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This regulation is effective 9 May 2007. 
12. Final date for comments:  Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or 
before 9 July 2007, and may be identifie d by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP- 2006-0965. 
Agency or authority designated to handl e 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 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail add ress (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), St op 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel.:+(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax: +(1 202) 69 0-0677;  E-mail: fstsd@fas.usda.gov