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G/SPS/N/USA/2395 
15 June 2012  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  US Environmental Protection Agency 
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):  Multiple commodities 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Quizalofop Ethyl; Pesticide Tolerances  Language(s):  
English  Number of pages:  6 
 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-04-20/html/2012-9447.htm  
6. Description of content:  Tolerances are established for residues of quizalofop ethyl, ethyl-
2-[4-(6-chloroquinoxalin-2-yl oxy)phenoxy]propanoa te, in or on crambe, meal at 2.0 ppm; 
gold of pleasure, meal at 2.0 ppm; rapeseed, meal at 2.0 ppm; rapeseed, subgroup 20A, 
except flax, seed at 1.5 ppm; sorghum, grain, grain at 0.20 ppm; sorghum, grain, forage at 
0.20 ppm; sorghum, grain, stover at 0.30 ppm; and sorghum, grain, aspirated grain fractions 
at 1.0 ppm.  This final rule additionally rem oves the established tolerances for canola, seed 
at 1.0 ppm; and canola, meal at 1.5 ppm.  This regulation also deletes time-limited 
tolerances for quizalofop ethyl on beet, sugar,  molasses at 0.2 ppm; beet, sugar, roots at 
0.1 ppm; beet, sugar, tops at 0.5 ppm; vege table, foliage of legume, except soybean, 
subgroup 7A at 3.0 ppm; and vegetable, legum e, group 6 at 0.25 ppm, as the tolerances 
expired on June 14, 1999. Finally, this final rule  revises the tolerance expression to clarify:  
1. That, as provided in FFDCA section 408(a )(3), the tolerance covers metabolites and 
degradates of quizalofop ethyl not specifically mentioned; and 2.  That compliance with the 
specified tolerance levels is to be dete rmined by measuring only the specific compounds 
mentioned in the tolerance expression. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.    G/SPS/N/USA/2395 
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  8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[X] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  In the Federal 
Register of 25 February 2011 (76 FR 10584) (FRL-8863-3), EPA issued a notice pursuant to section 408(d)(3) of FFDCA, 21 U.S.C. 346a (d)(3), announcing the filing of a pesticide 
petition, PP 0E7802, by IR-4, 500 College Ro ad East, Suite 201W, Princeton, NJ 08540. 
The petition requested that 40 CFR 180.441 be amended by establishing tolerances for 
residues of the herbicide quizalofop ethyl, ethyl-2-[4-(6-chloroquinoxalin-2-yl oxy)phenoxy]propanoate, incl uding its metabolites and degr adates, in or on rapeseed 
subgroup 20A, except flax, seed at 1.0 parts per million (ppm); gold of pleasure, meal at 
1.5 ppm; crambe, meal at 1.5 ppm; sorghum, gr ain at 0.2 ppm; sorghum, forage at 0.2 ppm; 
sorghum, stover at 0.35 ppm; and sorghum, aspirated grain at 1.0 ppm. The petition additionally requested that EPA amend tole rances in 40 CFR 180.441 by removing the 
established tolerance for canola, seed at 1.0 ppm  from the table in paragraph (a)(3), as the 
individual tolerance will be superseded by in clusion in rapeseed subgroup 20A, except flax, 
seed. The petition also proposed to remove th e tolerances in Sec.  180.441(a)(4), as these 
tolerances expired on 14 June 1999.   
The petition, PP 0E7802, also proposed to amend 40 CFR 180.441 by combining the tables 
for sections (a)(1) and (a)(3) into one tabl e under section (a)(1), and by removing section 
(a)(3).  It further proposed to revise th e tolerance expression under section (a)(1). The 
petition, PP 0E7802, additionally proposed to revise the tolerance expression under section 
(a)(2). 
Finally, PP 0E7802 proposed to revise the tolerance expression under section (c). That 
notice referenced a summary of the petition prepared on behalf of IR-4 by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the registrant, which is  available to the public in the docket, 
http://www.regulations.gov.  There were no comme nts received in response to the notice of 
filing. 
Based upon review of the data supporting the petitions, EPA has revised the proposed 
tolerance level and/or commodity definition fo r several commodities. The Agency has also 
removed the established tolerance on canola, meal, as the data were used to establish a tolerance on rapeseed meal, the preferred co mmodity terminology.  The reasons for these 
changes are explained in Unit IV.C.   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  20 April 2012 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  20 April 2012  G/SPS/N/USA/2395 
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  11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  20 April 2012 
[X] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  Laura Nollen, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide 
Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 
DC 20460-0001;  Tel:  (703) 305-7390;   E-mail:  nollen.laura@epa.gov 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 202) 720 1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 720 0433;  E-mail:  us.s psenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov