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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/363
15 December 2000
(00-5487)
Committee on Sanitary and 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 may be provided in addition, whereapplicable).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Pesticides
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Notice of Receipt of Requests for
Amendments to Delete Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations  (2 pages)
5. Description of content:  In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of
request for amendment by registrants to delete uses in certain pesticide registrations.  Unless
a request is withdrawn, the Agency will approve these use deletions and the deletions will
become effective on 5 January 2001 unless indicated otherwise.
6. 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           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [    ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Codex has no maximum residue levels (MRLs)
for propetamphos.  Codex has a number of MRLs for endosulfan.  There is no Codex MRL
for chlorpyrifos on popcorn.
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: 65 FR 76240,
6 December 2000 (Available in English)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  5 January 2001
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  5 January 2001
11. Final date for comments:
Agency or authority designated to handle comments   [    ] National notification
authority, [     ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body: :  The full text of this notice will be sent upon request to the
address in paragraph 12.G/SPS/N/USA/363
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12. Texts available from: [  X ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
United States SPS Enquiry Point/Notification Authority
USDA/FAS/FSTSD
ATTN: Carolyn F. WilsonRoom 5545 South Agriculture Building
Stop 1027
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20250
Phone (202) 720-2239
Fax (202) 690-0677
E-mail Address: ofsts@fas.usda.gov