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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/952/Add.9 
15 August 2007  
 (07-3448) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
 
 
The following communication, received on 7 Augus t 2007, is being circulated at the request 
of the Delegation of the United States . 
 
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 Bromoxynil, Diclofop-methyl, Dicofol, Diquat, Etridiazole, et al.; Tolerance Actions
 
 By means of this rule:  
EPA is amending the tolerance expression to read " ... residues of the plant growth regulator 
and herbicide diquat ...".  
EPA is revoking the tolerances for potato, pr ocessed potato waste and processed, dried potato 
waste because the associated commodities are no longer significant animal feed items and these 
tolerances are therefore no longer needed. 
 
In order to achieve compatibility with Code x (see Unit III., below), EPA is increasing the 
tolerances in 40 CFR 180.226(a)(1) for egg and fat, meat, and meat byproducts of cattle, goats, hogs, 
horses, poultry, and sheep, from 0.02 ppm to 0.05 ppm.  
EPA is increasing the tolerances in 40 CFR 180.226(a)(2)(i) for residues of diquat on "fish" 
from 0.1 ppm to 2.0 ppm and "shellfish" from 0.1 ppm to 20.0 ppm.  The Agency determined 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.  
EPA is increasing the tolerances for residues of diquat on "fruit, citr us, group 10" from 0.02 
ppm to 0.05 ppm; "vegetable, fruiting, group 8" from 0.02 ppm to 0.05 ppm; "vegetable, leafy" from 0.02 ppm to 0.05 ppm and revising the terminology to read "vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 4" and "vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5", and by  increasing the tolerance level for "vegetable, seed 
and pod" from 0.02 ppm to 0.05 ppm; and "grass, fo rage" from 0.1 ppm to 0.2 ppm and revising the 
terminology to read "grass, forage, fodder and hay, group 17".  
 
EPA is increasing the tolerance for residues of diquat on "fruit, small" from 0.02 ppm to 0.05 
ppm.  Instead of revising the terminology to read "fruit, small and berry group", as was proposed, EPA is revising the terminology consistent with the Agency response made in this document to a 
comment on diquat; i.e., the old terminology of small fruit for diquat will be separated into individual 
tolerances for cranberry, grape, and strawberry, as well as berry group 13, each at 0.05 ppm.  The G/SPS/N/USA/952/Add.9 
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  Agency determined that the increas ed tolerances are safe; i.e., there is a reasonable certainty that no 
harm will result from aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. 
 
EPA is increasing the tolerances for residues of diquat in or on "avocado", "cotton, undelinted 
seed", and "sugarcane, cane", each from 0.02 ppm to 0.2 ppm, and "hop, dried cones" from 0.02 ppm 
to 0.2 ppm.  The Agency determined that the increa sed tolerances are safe; i.e., there is a reasonable 
certainty that no harm will result from aggregat e exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. 
 
EPA is establishing tolerances for residues of diquat in or on "sorghum, grain, grain" at 2.0 
ppm, "soybean, seed" at 0.2 ppm, and increasing the to lerance on "vegetable, foliage of legume, group 
7" from 0.1 ppm to 0.2 ppm.  
 
EPA is establishing a tolerance for residues of diquat for "soybean, hulls" at 0.6 ppm. 
 
EPA is establishing a tolerance for "alfalfa, seed" at 3.0 ppm.  Also, in the diquat TRED, EPA 
recommended the establishment of a tolerance on clove r seed at 2.0 ppm.  However, a tolerance for 
"clover, seed" is not needed because clover seed is no longer considered by the Agency to be a 
significant food or feed item.  
EPA is revising commodity terminology to conform to current Agency practice as follows:  
"grain, crop" to read "grain, cereal, group 15" and "grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16".  
While the Agency did propose to revise toleranc e terminology from coffee to coffee, bean, the 
Agency did not propose in a notice for comment to  revise that tolerance on coffee to coffee, bean, 
green, as is current Agency practice.  Also, EPA is  revising the tolerance from coffee to coffee, bean, 
green.  The reason for taking this action is because su ch action has no practical impact on the use of or 
exposure to the pesticide active ingredient, diquat, in  or on that commodity and is made such that the 
tolerance terminology will conform to current Agency practice.  
 
This regulation is effective 30 October 2007.  Objections and requests for hearings must be 
received on or before 1 October 2007, and may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-
0154.  
 The full text of this addendum (Final  Rule) can be found at the address below. 
 Federal Register:  1 August 2007 (Volume 72,  Number 147) Rules and Regulations Page 
41913-41931;  http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- PEST/2007/August/Day -01/p14895.htm
 
  This action is subsequent to a notice publishe d in the Federal Register 4 August 2004, in 
which the Agency announced proposed changes to  tolerances for diquat, among other pesticide 
agents.     This notice can be found at:   Federal Register:  4 August 2004 (Volume 69, Number 149) Proposed Rules Page 47051-
47068;  http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA -PEST/2004/August/Day -04/p17508.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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