[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 22]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR180.1020]

[Page 553-554]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 180_TOLERANCES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM TOLERANCES FOR PESTICIDE CHEMICALS 
IN FOOD--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart D_Exemptions From Tolerances
 
Sec. 180.1020  Sodium chlorate; exemption from the requirement of a 
tolerance.

    (a) Sodium chlorate is exempted from the requirement of a tolerance 
for residues in or on the following raw agricultural commodities when 
used as a defoliant, desiccant, or fungicide in accordance with good 
agricultural practice.

                                Commodity

Beans, dry, edible
Corn, fodder
Corn, forage
Corn, grain
Cottonseed
Flaxseed
Flax, straw
Guar beans

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Peas, southern
Peppers, chili
Potatoes
Rice
Rice, straw
Safflower, grain
Sorghum, grain
Sorghum, fodder
Sorghum, forage
Soybeans
Sunflower seed

    (b) A time-limited exemption from the requirement of a tolerance is 
established for residues of the defoliant/desiccant in connection with 
use of the pesticide under section 18 emergency exemptions granted by 
EPA. The exemption will expire and is revoked on the date specified in 
the following table:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             Expiration/
                    Commodity                     Parts per   revocation
                                                   million       date
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wheat...........................................         NA     12/31/04
------------------------------------------------------------------------


[54 FR 9800, Mar. 8, 1989, as amended at 60 FR 4862, Jan. 25, 1995; 62 
FR 63863, Dec. 3, 1997; 63 FR 35846, July 1, 1998; 64 FR 42849, Aug. 6, 
1999; 65 FR 48639, Aug. 9, 2000; 68 FR 2247, Jan. 16, 2003]