. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1558 
23 May 2007  
 (07-2097) 
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 numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Cattle, goat, horse, hog, sheep,  poultry, wheat, corn, sorghum 
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.  
Chloroneb, Cypermethrin, Methidathion, Nitr apyrin, Oxyfluorfen, Pirimiphos-methyl, 
Sulfosate, Tebuthiuron, Thiabendazole, Thid iazuron, and Tribuphos; Proposed Tolerance 
Actions (available in English, 16 pages) 
6. Description of content: Through this rule, EPA proposes to  change regulations concerning 
nitrapyrin as follows:  
Due to relevant data, EPA proposes to revoke to lerances for nitrapyrin and resultant residues 
of 6-chloropicolinic acid in or on cattle, fat; cattle, meat; cattle, m eat byproducts; goat, fat; 
goat, meat; goat, meat byproducts; hog, fat; hog, meat; hog, meat byproducts; horse, fat; 
horse, meat; horse, meat byproduc ts; sheep, fat; sheep, meat; and sheep, meat byproducts; 
poultry, fat; poultry, meat; and poultry, meat byproducts. 
Further, EPA proposes to increase the tolerance of nitrapyrin and 6-chloropicolinic in or on 
wheat, grain to 0.5 ppm, wheat, forage to 2.0 ppm, and wheat, straw to 6.0 ppm, wheat, bran 
at 3.0 ppm, and wheat, milled byproducts, ex cept flour at 2.0 ppm, corn, field, milled 
byproducts at 0.2 ppm, and in or on sorghum,  forage to 0.5 ppm, and revising relevant 
commodity terminology to ``sorghum, forage, forage'' and ``sorghum, grain, forage.'' 
In addition, EPA is proposing to revise relevant  commodity terminology for "corn, forage" to 
"corn, field, forage" and "corn, sw eet, forage", "corn, grain" to "corn, field, grain" and "corn, 
pop, grain", "corn, stover" to "corn, field, st over", "corn, pop, stove r", and "corn, sweet, 
stover", and "sorghum, grain" to "sorghum, grain, grain". 
 
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 G/SPS/N/USA/1558 
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  8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), [ 
] International Plant Protec tion 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: 
2 May 2007 (Volume 72, Number 84)  Proposed Rules Page 24198-24213; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA -PEST/2007/May/Day-02/p8373.htm. 
10. Proposed date of adoption:   N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   2 July 2007 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 2 July 2007, and may 
be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0036. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ ] National notification 
authority, [  X ] National enquiry point, or add ress, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   Registration Division, (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Penn sylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
United States SPS National Notification Aut hority, USDA 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-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov