. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/2088 
27 September 2010  
 (10-4907) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES
 
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):  Grape, low growing berry bushberry, t uberous and corm vegetable; alfalfa, 
forage and hay;  cotton, gin byproduct; canola, borage, crambe, cuphea, echium, flax seed, 
gold of pleasure, hare's ear mustard, lesquere lla, lunaria, meadowfoam, milkweed, mustard 
seed, oil radish, poppy seed, rapeseed, sesame, sw eet rocket, calendula, castor oil plant, 
Chinese tallowtree, cottonseed, euphorbia, even ing primrose, jojoba, niger seed, rose hip, 
safflower, stokes aster, sunflower, tallowwood, t ea oil plant, vernonia, grain, cereal, grain, 
cereal, forage, fodder and straw; vegetable, legume; vegetable, foliage of legume; and 
vegetable, tuberous and corm, potato 
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:  Notice of Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions Filed for 
Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities  Language:  English  
Number of pages:  3   
6. Description of content:  EPA has received number of petitions to establish pesticide 
tolerances for a variety of commodities.  Pl ease access Federal Register notice through link 
provided for more information. 
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.    
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)    G/SPS/N/USA/2088 
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  [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:  This Federal 
Register Notice can be found at [Federal Re gister:  8 September 2010 (Volume 75, Number 
173)] [Notices] [Page 54629-54631] or online at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-
22331.htm  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  None 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  None 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  None 
[X] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  8 October 2010 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  Multiple people based on the p esticide.  Please refer to FR 
notice for specific contacts. 
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 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel: 
+(1 202) 720 1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 720 0433;  E-mail:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov