. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1617 
20 June 2007  
 (07-2609) 
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 number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable):  Grass, poultry, egg, alfalfa, bermuda grass, got, goat, cattle, sheep, corn, 
grape, olive, peach, plum, blueberry, blac kberry, loganberry, raspberry, pecan, filbert 
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.  
Amitraz, Atrazine, Ethephon, Ferbam, Linda ne, Propachlor, and Simazine; Proposed 
Tolerance Actions (available in English, 13 pages) 
6. Description of content:  By means of this rule, the Agency proposes the following 
changes to existing federal regula tions for the pesticide simazine: 
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances on "bermuda grass", "bermuda grass, forage", 
and "Bermuda grass, hay" and proposing to re voke the tolerances on "banana" and "fish". 
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances in or on "alfalfa", "alfalfa, forage", "alfalfa, hay" 
and "sugarcane, molasses".  Also, because the time-limited tolerances on "artichoke, 
globe", "asparagus" and "sugarcane, cane"  expired on 31 December 2000, EPA is 
proposing to revoke them. 
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances on "g rass", "grass, forage"; and "grass, hay".  
Because the use of simazine on boysenberry and dewberry is covered by the reassessed 
tolerance on blackberry, the tolerances on boy senberry and dewberry are no longer needed 
and therefore should be revoked.  
EPA is proposing to revoke the tolerances on " poultry, fat", "poultry, meat"; and "poultry, 
meat byproducts" and to increase the tole rance on "egg" to 0.03 ppm.  The Agency 
determined that the increased tolerance is safe; i.e., there is a reasonable certainty that no 
harm will result from aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. 
Based on ruminant feeding data and MTDB for swine, the Agency is proposing to revoke 
the tolerances on "hog, fat", "hog, meat", and "hog, meat byproducts",  "cattle, fat", "goat, 
fat", "horse, fat", and "sheep, fat". 
Based on available exaggerated ruminant feedi ng data, the Agency is proposing to increase 
the tolerances on "cattle, meat", "cattle, m eat byproducts", "goat, meat", "goat, meat 
byproducts", "horse, meat", "horse, meat byproducts", "sheep, meat", "sheep, meat G/SPS/N/USA/1617 
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  byproducts", and "milk" to 0.03 ppm.  The Agen cy 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. 
Based on available data, the Agency is pr oposing to decrease the tolerances on "apple", 
"avocado", "corn, forage", "corn, grain", "gra pe", "olive", "peach", and "plum" to 0.20 ppm 
and to revise the commodity terminology for "cor n, forage" to read "corn, field, forage" 
and "corn, sweet, forage" and for "corn, grain" to  read "corn, field, grain" and "corn, pop, 
grain".  In addition, EPA is proposing to revise the commodity terminology for "corn 
stover" to read "corn, field, stover", "cor n, pop, stover", and "corn, sweet, stover". 
Based on available data the Agency is proposi ng to decrease the tolerances on "blueberry", 
"blackberry", "loganberry", and "raspberry" to 0.20 ppm. 
Based on available data, the Agency is proposin g to decrease the tolerance on "filbert" to 
0.20 ppm, increase the tolerance on "pecan" to 0. 20 ppm. The Agency determined that the 
increased tolerance is safe; i.e., there is a r easonable certainty that no harm will result from 
aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. 
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  
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:  Federal Register: 
13 June 2007 (Volume 72, Number 113) Proposed Rules Page 32570-32582; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/June/Day-13/p11324.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  13 August 2007 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 13 August 2007, and 
may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0187. 
Agency or authority designated to handl e 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 Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail add ress (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), St op 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel.:+(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax: +(1 202) 69 0-0677;  E-mail: fstsd@fas.usda.gov