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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1432/Add.3 
19 July 2007 
 
 (07-3069) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
 
 
The following communication, received on 13 July 2007, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the United States.  
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 Chlorpropham, Linuron, Pebulate, Asulam, and Thiophanate-methyl;  Tolerance Actions
 
 
EPA is revoking the tolerances for residues of  thiophanate-methyl on apple, dry pomace; 
banana, pulp; bean (forage and hay),and celery, and revising the commodity terminology from peanut 
(forageand hay) into separate tolerance for peanut, forage and peanut, hay, and revoke peanut forage, 
and decrease peanut, hay from 15.0 to 5.0 ppm.  
EPA is increasing the tolerances for the combined  residues of thiophanate-methyl and methyl 
2-benzimidazolyl carbamate in or on milk from 0.1 to 0.15 ppm; cattle, goats, horses, and sheep meat 
and fat from 0.1(N) to 0.15 ppm; revising "cattle, go ats, and sheep meat byproducts, except liver and 
kidney at 0.1(N)" and "horse, meat byproducts, except liver at0.1(N)" to "cattle, goats, horses, and sheep meat byproducts at 0.15ppm"; and removing cattle, goats, and sheep liver each at 2.5 ppm; 
horse, liver at 1.0 ppm; cattle, kidney at 0.2(N) ppm; and goat and sheep kidney each at 0.2 ppm.  
EPA is increasing and revising the tolerances  for the combined residues of thiophanate-
methyl and methyl 2-benzimidazolyl carbamate in/on cherry, postharvest at 15.0 to cherry, sweet and 
cherry, tart at 20.0 ppm, strawberry from 5.0 to 7.0 ppm, and wheat, grain from 0.05 to 0.1 ppm.    
EPA is decreasing the tolerances for the combin ed residues of thiophanate-methyl and methyl 
2-benzimidazolylcarbamate in/on apple, postharvest  from 7.0 to 2.0 ppm; almond from 0.2(N) to 0.1 
ppm; almond, hulls from 1.0 to 0.5 ppm; dry, beans from 2.0 to 0.2 ppm and revise the commodity 
terminology from bean (snap and dr y) to bean, snap, succulent at 0.2 ppm and bean, dry, seed at 
0.2 ppm; peach, postharvest from 15.0 to 3.0 ppm; p eanut from 0.2(N) to 0.1 ppm; pecans from 0.2 
ppm to 0.1 ppm, and revise the commodity terminology from plum, postharvest from 15.0 to 0.5 ppm.  
EPA is removing the tolerance on plum, prune, postharvest and nectarine, postharvest, and 
egg.  
EPA is decreasing the tolerance for the comb ined thiophanate-methyl residues of concern 
in/on onion, dry from 3.0 to 0.5 ppm and revising the term to onion, bulb.  
EPA is establishing a tolerance for the combin ed residues of thiophanate-methyl and methyl 
2-benzimidazolyl carbamate in/on soybean, hulls at 1.5 ppm. G/SPS/N/USA/1432/Add.3 
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  EPA is removing the individual tolerances in/ on cucumber, melon, pumpkin, and squash at 
1.0 ppm, and combining them into a crop group tolerance on vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 at 1.0 ppm.  
This regulation is effective 11 July 2007.  Ob jections and requests for hearings must be 
received on or before 10 September 2007, and may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2006-0483. 
 
The full text of this addendum (Final Rule) can be found at the address below. 
Federal Register: 11 July 2007 (Volume 72, Numb er 132) Rules and Regulations Page 37646-37655; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/July/Day-11/p13420.htm 
 
This action is subsequent to a notice publishe d in the Federal Register 20 September 2006, in 
which EPA issued a proposed rule to revoke, remove , modify, and establish certain tolerances and/or 
tolerance exemption for residues for the herbicide thiophanate-methyl. 
 
This notice can be found at:  Federal Regi ster: 20 September 2006 (Volume 71, Number 182) 
Proposed Rules Page 54953-54965; http://www. epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2006/September/Day-
20/p15471.htm.   United States SPS National Notification Authority, US DA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 202) 720-
1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 690-0677;  E-ma il:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov 
  
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