. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1737 
22 November 2007  
 (07-5133) 
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):  Alfalfa; Almond; Apple; Apricot; As paragus; Bean; Beet; Blueberry; Borage; 
Buckwheat; Caneberry; Canola/rapeseed; Cattle; Cherry; Citrus; Clover; Coriander; Corn; 
Cotton; Dillweed; Egg; Flax; Fruit; Goat; Grape;  Hog; Horse; Juneberry; Lentil; Lingonberry; 
Milk; Nectarine; Nut; Okra; Peach ; Pea; Peanut; Pea; Peppermint; Pistachio; Potato; Poultry; 
Radish; Salal; Safflower; Sheep; Soybean; Spearmint; Strawberry; Sunflower; Tomato; 
Turnip; Vegetable, brassica, le afy, group 5;Vegetable, bulb, group 3; Vegetable, cucurbit, 
group 9; Vegetable, fruiting, group 8; Vegetable,  leafy, except brassi ca, group 4; Vegetable, 
root and tuber, group 1 
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:  FINAL RULE:  
Sethoxydim; Pesticide Tolerance Technical Am endment (available in English, 3 pages) 
6. Description of content:  EPA issued an amendment establishing tolerances for combined 
residues of sethoxydim; 2-[1-(ethoxyimino)butyl]-5-[2-(ethylthio)propyl]-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexen-1-one;  and its metabol ites ontaining the 2-cyclohexen-1-one moiety (calculated 
as sethoxydim) in or on buckwheat grain, buc kwheat flour, okra, bor age seed, borage meal, 
fresh dillweed leaves, radish tops, turnip green s, and vegetable, root and tuber, group 1 (72 
FR 8916, 28 February 2007).  Beca use of a technical error with the structure of the regulatory 
table, the amendments adding new commodities to the sethoxydim tolerances could not be 
made.  This technical amendment is being is sued to announce the correct tolerances, which 
are as follows (in ppm):  Alfalfa, forage at 40. 0; Alfalfa, hay at 40.0 ; Almond, hulls at 2.0; 
Apple, dry pomace at 0.8; Apple, wet pomace at 0.8; Apricot at 0.2; Asparagus at 4.0; Bean, 
dry, seed at 20.0; Bean, forage at 15.0; Bean, ha y at 50.0; Bean, succulent at 15.0; Beet, sugar, 
molasses at 10.0; Beet, sugar, tops at 3.0; Blue berry at 4.0; Borage, meal at 10; Borage, seed 
at 6.0; Buckwheat, flour at 25; Buckwheat, grain at 19; Caneberry subgroup 13A at 5.0; Canola/rapeseed at 35.0; Canola/rape seed, meal at 40.0; Cattle, fat at 0.2; Cattle, meat at 0.2; 
Cattle, meat byproducts at 1.0; Cherry, sweet at  0.2; Cherry, tart at 0.2; Citrus, molasses 
at 1.5; Citrus, dried pulp at 1.5; Clover, forage at 35.0; Clover, hay at 50.0; Coriander at 4.0; 
Corn, field, grain at 0.5; Corn fodder at 2.5; Co rn forage at 2.0; Corn, sweet, forage at 3.0; 
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks remove d at 0.4; Corn, sweet, stover at 3.5; Cotton, 
seed, soapstock at 15; Cotton, undelinted seed at 5.0; Cranberry at 2.0; Dillweed, fr esh leaves 
at 10; Egg at 2.0; Flax, meal at 7; Flax, seed at  5.0; Flax, straw at 2.0; Fruit, citrus at 0.5;  G/SPS/N/USA/1737 
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   Fruit, pome at 0.2; Goat, fat at 0.2; Goat, me at at 0.2; Goat, meat byproducts at 1.0; Grape 
at 1.0; Grape, raisin at 2.0; Hog, fat at 0.2; Hog, meat at 0.2; Hog, meat byproducts at 1.0; 
Horse, fat at 0.2; Horse, meat at 0.2; Horse, meat byproducts at 1.0; Juneberry at 5.0; Lentil, 
seed at 30.0; Lingonberry at 5.0; Milk at 0.5; Nect arine at 0.2; Nut, tree, group 14 at 0.2; Okra 
at 2.5; Peach at 0.2; Pea, dry, seed at 40.0; Pea, field, hay at 40.0; Pea, field, vines at 20.0; 
Peanut at 25.0; Peanut, soapstoc k at 75.0; Pea, succulent at 10. 0; Peppermint, tops at 30.0; 
Pistachio at 0.2; Potato, flakes at 8.0; Potato , granules at 8.0; Potato, processed potato waste 
at 8.0; Poultry, fat at 0.2; Poultry, meat at 0. 2; Poultry, meat byproducts at 2.0; Radish, tops 
at 4.5; Salal at 5.0; Safflower at 15.0; Sheep,  fat at 0.2; Sheep, meat at 0.2; Sheep, meat 
byproducts at 1.0; Soybean at 16.0; Soybean, hay at 10.0; Spearmint, tops at 30.0; Strawberry 
at 10.0; Sunflower, meal at 20.0; Sunflower, seed  at 7.0; Tomato, concentrated products at 24; 
Tomato, dry pomace at 12.0; Turnip, greens at 5. 0; Vegetable, brassica, leafy, group 5 at 5.0; 
Vegetable, bulb, group 3 at 1.0; Vegetable, cu curbit, group 9 at 4.0; Vegetable, fruiting, 
group 8 at 4.0; Vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 4 at 4.0; and vegetable, root and tuger, 
group 1 at 4.0.  
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] 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 :   
14 November 2007 (Volume 72, Number 219)  Rules and Regulations Page 63992-63994; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-P EST/2007/November/Day-14/p22220.htm    
10. Proposed date of adoption:   N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This final rule is effective 14 November 2007. 
12. Final date for comments:  Objections and requests for hear ings must be received on or 
before 14 January 2008, and may be identif ied by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0321. 
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), Office of Pe sticide Programs, Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 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 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;  Fa x:  +(1 202) 690-0677;  E-mail:  
us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov