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1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Transcript of Meeting of 8 Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee 9 Conference Center - Lobby Level 10 2777 Crystal Drive (One Potomac Yard South) 11 Arlington, Virginia 12 May 9 & 10, 2007 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 2 1 COMMITTEE MEMBER ATTENDANCE LIST 2 James Gulliford Assistant Administrator, OPPTS 3 Debbie Edwards Director, Office of Pesticide 4 Programs 5 _____________________________________________________ 6 Anne Lindsay Deputy Director for Programs 7 Ronald Smithson USDA 8 Richard Colbert Director, Agriculture Division, 9 Office of Enforcement and 10 Compliance Assistance, EPA 11 Nancy Golden U.S. Special Wildlife Service 12 Vladimir Murashov National Institute for Occupational 13 Safety and Health 14 Seth Goldberg Steptoe & Johnson 15 Carolyn Brickey Center for American Progress 16 Dr. Robert Holm Executive Director, IR-4 Project 17 Gary Libman Principle of GNL Consultation 18 Services, LLC 19 Jennifer Sass Senior Scientist, Natural 20 Resources Defense Council 21 Rodney (Marco) Guske Travel Pesticide Program Council 22 Lori Berger California Specialty Crops Council For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 3 1 ATTENDANCE LIST (cont'd) 2 Dr. Steve Balling Del Monte Foods 3 Caroline A. Kennedy Defenders of Wildlife 4 Frank Gasparini RISE, Responsible Industry for a 5 Sound Environment 6 Dr. Jose Amador Director, Agricultural Research 7 & Extension Center, Texas A&M 8 Shelley Davis Deputy and Co-Executive Director, 9 Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. 10 Dr. Warren Stickle Chemical Producers & Distributors 11 Association 12 Dennis Howard Chief, Bureau of Pesticides, 13 Florida Dept. of Agriculture & 14 Consumer Services 15 Carol Ramsay Extension Pesticide Education 16 Specialist, Washington State 17 University 18 Jay Vroom CropLife America 19 Amy Liebman Environmental Health Consultant, 20 Migrant Clinician Network 21 Dr. Hasmukh Shah American Chemistry Council 22 For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 4 1 ATTENDANCE LIST (cont'd) 2 N. Beth Carroll, Ph.D. Senior Stewardship Manager, 3 Syngenta Crop Protection 4 Daniel Botts Director, Environmental & Pest 5 Management Division, Florida 6 Fruit & Vegetable Association 7 Cannon Michael National Cotton Council, 8 California Cotton Growers & 9 Ginners 10 Julie Spagnoli FMC Corporation 11 Robert Rosenberg Director, Government Affairs, 12 National Pest Management 13 Association, Inc. 14 Amy Brown Coordinator, Pesticide Safety 15 Education Program, University of 16 Maryland 17 Patrick Quinn Principle, The Accord Group 18 Diane Allemang ChemNova 19 Susan Kegley Pesticide Action Network 20 David Lewis & Harrison 21 Caroline Cox Center for Environmental Health 22 For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 5 1 ATTENDANCE LIST (cont'd) 2 Joseph Conlon Technical Advisor, American 3 Mosquito Control Association 4 Dr. Michael Fry Director of Pesticides and Birds 5 Program, American Bird 6 Conservancy 7 Maria Martinez EPA, Region Six 8 Allison Weederman EPA, Office of Water 9 Jim Hanlon EPA, Office of Water 10 Allen Jennings Director, Office of Pest 11 Management, USDA 12 Marty Monell Deputy Director for 13 Management, OPP 14 Matthew Keifer Associate Professor, School of 15 Public Health and Community 16 Medicine 17 Frank Sanders Director, Antimicrobials 18 Division 19 Pete Caulkins Acting Director, Special Review 20 & Reregistration Division 21 Don Stubbs Associate Director, Registration 22 Division For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 6 1 ATTENDANCE LIST (cont'd) 2 Jack Housenger Associate Director, Health Effects 3 Division 4 Kevin Keaney Chief, Certification & Worker 5 Protection Branch, FEAD 6 Steve Bradbury Director, Environmental Fate & 7 Effects Division 8 Arty Williams Associate Director, Environmental 9 Fate & Effects Division 10 Pauline Wagner Chief, Inerts Assessment Branch, 11 Registration Division 12 Michelle Thawley GIS Coordinator, Environmental 13 Fate & Effects Division 14 Oscar Morales Director, Information Technology 15 and Resources Management Division 16 Larry Elworth Executive Director, Center for 17 Agricultural Partnerships 18 Dale Dubberly Chief, Bureau of Compliance 19 Monitoring, Florida Department 20 of Agriculture and Consumer 21 Affairs 22 For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 7 1 ATTENDANCE LIST (cont'd) 2 Chuck Andrews 3 Scott Schertz 4 Jerry Johnston 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 8 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 - - - - - 3 DAY ONE - May 9, 2007 4 MR. GULLIFORD: Good morning. 5 (All says good morning.) 6 This is sounding like a staff meeting. 7 What's happening here? No. 8 Well, good morning. My name is Jim 9 Gulliford. I'm the assistant administrator for 10 OPPTS. I'm delighted to welcome you all to the PPDC 11 meeting this morning. I know that many of you 12 probably travelled late last night to get here, and I 13 appreciate the reasonably early start-up time that we 14 asked you to join us for. 15 I have two important functions today. The 16 second is to, obviously, add to my welcome and thank 17 you for your work. But, initially, I'd like to start 18 off by introducing to you someone that all of you 19 know but perhaps just recently in her new capacity, 20 Debbie Edwards is now my office director for the 21 Office of Pesticide Program, and I'm just delighted 22 to have Debbie. You all know the work that she's For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 9 1 done, her roles as director for the reregistration 2 and special review, and prior to that, the 3 registration office as well. 4 But she brings a load, which is a technical 5 term from the Midwest. She brings a load of 6 experience and talent to this job that I think will 7 continue to find work that OPP has done over many 8 years. And she also brings the background and 9 experience that I think add to her understanding of 10 the issues that all of you bring to the PPDC, and 11 they are very important to the work at OPP. 12 Now, having introducing Debbie, before I 13 let her talk and let her take over this meeting, I 14 also think it's very important that I want to thank 15 and recognize the work that Jim Jones has done as 16 well. Jim, as you know, has not left OPPTS, but, in 17 fact, I selected Jim to be my principle career deputy 18 for OPPTS. And so he's moved over to the other side 19 of the river, the downtown side. And, again, for 20 many of the same exact reasons I'm just delighted to 21 have Jim's experience, his leadership, his reasoning 22 abilities to be applied to the challenges that we For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 10 1 face from both in administrative, but also in 2 leadership standpoint on the higher OPPTS mission. 3 So I'm very grateful for all of the work 4 that Jim did as OPP director, office director, but 5 also am delighted that he agreed to come over to the 6 OPPTS portion of our leadership team. And I believe 7 that with my selection of both Jim and Debbie in 8 their new roles that we've continued the 9 traditionally strong leadership program for all of 10 our pesticides toxic work in OPPTS. So I'm delighted 11 with my staff and to have them in place and to be 12 able to do the work that is given to us. 13 The second part of my interest today is 14 obviously to thank you all for coming and for 15 continuing to engage, providing input to this FACA 16 Committee, to look at the issues that we're facing on 17 the OPP side again of OPPTS. We know that you do 18 this because of your interest in these issues both 19 professionally and personally, but also from our 20 perspective, you bring a wealth of knowledge and a 21 link to just a live source of information that is 22 very important to the work that we do at OPPTS. We For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 11 1 know that you bring a diverse set of interests and 2 perspectives which are critical to the information 3 that we need to make informed decisions. 4 We very much appreciate the fact that for 5 the lively discussion that occurs, it's respectful 6 discussion, and that we all understand the different 7 perspectives and different knowledge sources and 8 interests that you bring. So I'm very grateful for 9 that, and I want to thank you again for that, and I'm 10 delighted to be able to spend a little bit of time 11 with you this morning. I'm going to listen to the 12 discussion, this Frazier report that is coming out 13 and perhaps provide an opportunity tomorrow to spend 14 a little bit of time again later with you. 15 But, again, thank you all for your 16 interest, your commitment, your willingness to bring 17 perspective and background and information to the - 18 to OPP. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to 19 Debbie to conduct the meeting. But please join me in 20 welcoming Debbie to this new position and thanking 21 her for agreeing to serve on this most important 22 role.