procymidone tolerance reassessment decision for low risk pesticide notice of availability available in english 3 pages epa has reassessed the uses of procymidone and on 7july2005 reached a tolerance reassessment decision for this pesticide. procymidone is a fungicide used to treat wine grapes outside of the united states. a tolerance of 5 parts per million for wine grapes has been established with no us registrations to permit the import of wine produced from procymidone treated grapes. currently procymidone exposures to the us general population exist only through drinking imported wine made from procymidone treated grapes. since there are no registered uses of procymidone in the united states no occupational residential or drinking water exposures are expected. epa has not made a common mechanism of toxicity finding and therefore has not assumed that procymidone has a common mechanism of toxicity with other substances for the purposes of this tolerance action. the agency is now issuing for comment the resulting report on food quality protection act fqpa tolerance reassessment progress and risk management decision for procymidone known as a tred as well as related risk assessments and technical support documents. epa developed the procymidone tred through a modified streamlined version of its public process for making tolerance reassessment and reregistration eligibility decisions. through these programs the agency is ensuring that pesticides meet current standards under the federal food drug and cosmetic act ffdca and the federal insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act fifra as amended by fqpa. epa must review tolerances and tolerance exemptions that were in effect when the fqpa was enacted to ensure that these existing pesticide residue limits for food and feed commodities meet the safety standard established by the new law. tolerances are considered reassessed once the safety finding has been made or a revocation occurs. epa has reviewed and made the requisite safety finding for the procymidone tolerance included in this notice. epa will carefully consider all comments received by the closing date and will provide a response to comments memorandum in the docket and electronic edocket. if any comment significantly affects the document epa also will publish an amendment to the tred in the federal register. in the absence of substantive comments requiring changes the decisions reflected in the tred will be implemented as presented