. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/USA/103 
1 April 2005 
 (05-1315) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency  (EPA) (108) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Herbicides, insecticides, 
and fungicides  (HS Chapter 3808;  ICS:  65) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Alachlor, Carbaryl, 
Diazinon, Disulfoton, Pirimiphos-methyl, and Vinclozolin; Proposed Tolerance Revocations (6 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   This document proposes to revoke specific tolerances for residues 
of the herbicide alachlor, in secticides carbaryl, diazinon, disulfoton, and pirimiphos-methyl, 
and fungicide vinclozolin. Some of these sp ecific tolerances correspond to commodities 
either no longer considered to be significant liv estock feed items or which have registration 
restrictions against feeding to livestock. Other tolerances are associated with food 
registrations that EPA cancelled or for which the Agency deleted food uses following 
requests for voluntary cancellation or use deletion by the registrants. EPA expects to 
determine whether any individuals or groups want to support these tolerances. The 
regulatory actions proposed in this documen t contribute toward the Agency's tolerance 
reassessment requirements of the Federal Food,  Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) section 
408(q), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996. By law, EPA is required by August 2006 to reassess the tolera nces in existence on August 2, 1996. The 
regulatory actions proposed in this document  pertain to the proposed revocation of 15 
tolerances and tolerance exemptions of which 9 would be counted as tolerance 
reassessments toward the August 2006 review deadline. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human life and health. G/TBT/N/USA/103 
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 8. Relevant documents:   70 Federal Register (FR) 14618 23 March 2005; Title 40 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 180.  Will app ear in the Federal Register when adopted. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:    23 May 2005 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Full Text of this Notification is Now Available on the Internet at URLs: 
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/24 22/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-
5724.htm 
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/24 22/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/
05-5724.pdf