proposed rule. amitraz atrazine ethephon ferbam lindane propachlor and simazine proposed tolerance actions by means of this rule the agency proposes the following changes to existing federal regulations for the pesticide simazine epa is proposing to revoke the tolerances on bermuda grass bermudagrass forage and bermudagrass hay and proposing to revoke the tolerances on banana and fish. epa is proposing to revoke the tolerances in or on alfalfa alfalfa forage alfalfa hay and sugarcane molasses. also because the time-limited tolerances on artichoke globe asparagus and sugarcane cane expired on 31 december 2000 epa is proposing to revoke them. epa is proposing to revoke the tolerances on grass grass forage and grass hay. because the use of simazine on boysenberry and dewberry is covered by the reassessed tolerance on blackberry the tolerances on boysenberry and dewberry are no longer needed and therefore should be revoked. epa is proposing to revoke the tolerances on poultry fat poultry meat and poultry meat byproducts and to increase the tolerance on egg to 0.03 ppm. the agency determined that the increased tolerance is safe i.e. there is a reasonable certainty that no harm will result from aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. based on ruminant feeding data and mtdb for swine the agency is proposing to revoke the tolerances on hog fat hog meat and hog meat byproducts cattle fat goat fat horse fat and sheep fat. based on available exaggerated ruminant feeding data the agency is proposing to increase the tolerances on cattle meat cattle meat byproducts goat meat goat meat byproducts horse meat horse meat byproducts sheep meat sheep meat byproducts and milk to 0.03 ppm. the agency determined that the increased tolerances are safe i.e. there is a reasonable certainty that no harm will result from aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue. based on available data the agency is proposing to decrease the tolerances on apple avocado corn forage corn grain grape olive peach and plum to 0.20 ppm and to revise the commodity terminology for corn forage to read corn field forage and corn sweet forage and for corn grain to read corn field grain and corn pop grain. in addition epa is proposing to revise the commodity terminology for corn stover to read corn field stover corn pop stover and corn sweet stover.