TITLE 40 - PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER I - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

SUBCHAPTER E - PESTICIDE PROGRAMS

PART 180 - TOLERANCES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM TOLERANCES FOR PESTICIDE CHEMICALS IN FOOD

subpart c - SPECIFIC TOLERANCES

180.284 - Zinc phosphide; tolerances for residues.

  (a) General. Tolerances are established for residues of the phosphine resulting from the use of the rodenticide zinc phosphide in or on the raw agricultural commodities as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parts per Commodity million ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alfalfa, forage............................................. 0.2 Alfalfa, hay................................................ 0.2 Barley, grain............................................... 0.05 Barley, hay................................................. 0.2 Barley, straw............................................... 0.2 Bean, dry, seed............................................. 0.05 Beet, sugar, roots.......................................... 0.05 Beet, sugar, tops........................................... 0.2 Grape....................................................... 0.01 Grass (rangeland)........................................... 0.1 Potato...................................................... 0.05 Sugarcane, cane............................................. 0.01 Timothy, hay................................................ 0.5 Timothy, forage............................................. 0.5 Wheat, forage............................................... 0.05 Wheat, grain................................................ 0.05 Wheat, hay.................................................. 0.05 Wheat, straw................................................ 0.05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. Time-limited tolerances are established for residues of phosphine resulting from the use of the rodenticide zinc phosphide in connection with use of the pesticide under FIFRA section 18 emergency exemptions granted by EPA. The tolerances are specified in the following table. The tolerances expire on the date specified in the table.

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Expiration/ Commodity Parts per Revocation million Date ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alfalfa, forage................................. 1.0 12/31/05 Alfalfa, hay.................................... 1.0 12/31/05 Clover, forage.................................. 0.1 12/31/05 Clover, hay..................................... 0.1 12/31/05 Timothy, seed................................... 0.1 12/31/05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (c) Tolerances with regional registrations. Tolerances with regional registration, as defined in 180.1(n), are established for residues of phosphine resulting from the use of the rodenticide zinc phosphide in or on the following raw agricultural commodities as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parts per Commodity million ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Artichoke, globe............................................ 0.01 Beet, sugar, roots.......................................... 0.04 Beet, sugar, tops........................................... 0.02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved] [63 FR 45182, Aug. 25, 1998, as amended at 63 FR 67799, Dec. 9, 1998; 64 FR 40772, July 28, 1999; 64 FR 61791, Nov. 15, 1999; 65 FR 8874, Feb.

23, 2000; 65 FR 49941, Aug. 16, 2000; 65 FR 62634, Oct. 19, 2000; 66 FR 64773, Dec. 14, 2001; 68 FR 2247, Jan. 16, 2003; 68 FR 56195, Sept. 30, 2003; 70 FR 7046, Feb. 10, 2005]