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1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Transcript of Meeting of 9 Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee 10 Sheraton Crystal City Hotel 11 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway 12 Arlington, Virginia 13 April 16-17, 2003 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 2 1 COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2 Jim Jones Director, Office of Pesticide 3 Programs, OPPTS, Chairperson 4 Stephen L. Johnson Assistant Administrator, Office 5 of Prevention, Pesticides and 6 Toxic Substances 7 Margie Fehrenbach Designated Federal Officer, OPP 8 Daniel Botts Director, Environmental & Pest 9 Management, Florida Fruit & 10 Vegetable Association 11 Robert Rosenberg Director, Government Affairs, 12 National Pest Management 13 Association, Inc. 14 Bill Tracy National Cotton Council of 15 America 16 Carolyn Brickey Executive Director, Institute 17 for Environment and Agriculture 18 Adam Goldberg Consumers Union 19 Kristina Thayer Environmental Working Group 20 Dr. Richard Liroff World Wildlife Fund 21 Aaron Coangelo Natural Resources Defense 22 Council For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 3 1 COMMITTEE MEMBERS (cont'd) 2 Patti Bright Environmental Defense 3 Edward Zuroweste, M.D. Medical Director, Migrant 4 Clinician Network 5 Shelley Davis United Farmworkers of America 6 Troy Seidle People for the Ethical Treatment 7 of Animals 8 Dr. Beth Carroll Stewardship Manager for Food, 9 Feed and Fiber, Syngenta 10 Allen James Responsible Industry for a Sound 11 Environment 12 Stephen Kellner Consumer Specialty Products 13 Association 14 William McCormick Project Manager, The Clorox 15 Company 16 Dr. Hasmukh Sauers Manager, Biocides Panel, 17 American Chemistry Council 18 Julie Spagnoli Director, Federal Regulatory 19 Affairs, Bayer 20 Dr. Warren Stickle President, Chemical Producers & 21 Distributors Association 22 Jay Vroom CropLife America For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 4 1 COMMITTEE MEMBERS (cont'd) 2 Gary Libman Director, Regulatory Affairs and 3 Quality Assurance, Emerald 4 BioAgriculture Corporation 5 Alan Lockwood, M.D. Chair, Environmental Committee, 6 Physicians for Social 7 Responsibility 8 Dr. Nancy Lewis Associate Professor, Department 9 of Nutritional Science and 10 Dietetics, University of 11 Nebraska 12 Phil Benedict Director, Plant Industry, 13 Vermont Department of 14 Agriculture 15 Charlie Clark Environmental Administrator, 16 Pesticide Registration Section, 17 Bureau of Pesticides, Department 18 of Ag and Consumer Services 19 Dr. Jose Amador Director, Agriculture Research & 20 Extension Center, Texas A&M 21 Larry Elworth Executive Director, Center for 22 Agricultural Partnerships For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 5 1 COMMITTEE MEMBERS (cont'd) 2 Winand Hock, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Plant 3 Pathology, Penn State Pesticide 4 Education Program 5 Dr. Robert Holm Executive Director, IR-4 Project 6 John Vickery Principal, John Vickery 7 Consulting 8 Patrick Quinn Principal, The Accord Group 9 Dr. Michael Kashtook Office of Plant and Dairy Foods 10 and Beverages, FDA 11 Allen Jennings Director, Office of Pest 12 Management, USDA 13 Dr. Gary Clark National Center for Infectious 14 Diseases, Centers for Disease 15 Control & Prevention 16 Dr. Melody Kawamoto National Institute for 17 Occupational Safety and Health, 18 Centers for Disease Control & 19 Prevention 20 Brad Bergen Section Head, Formulants, PMRA 21 22 For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 1 1 Day One 2 April 16, 2003 3 PROCEEDINGS 4 - - - - - 5 MR. JONES: Why don't we get started. I think 6 being on time is important. We all want a timely 7 government, we should all be prepared to be timely 8 ourselves. 9 I really appreciate everyone's efforts to come 10 to Washington. I know that this is a difficult time for 11 a number of reasons. We have a number of holidays going 12 on this week, there's spring break for a lot of our 13 children, and the nice thing it's a nice time of the year 14 to be in Washington, but understand that it's a 15 challenging time for many of you to be here and 16 appreciate the effort and can understand why some of our 17 members weren't able to make it. 18 When planning for this meeting, we had the good 19 fortune -- it's really the reason we are in this hotel on 20 these dates -- that an SAP meeting had been scheduled 21 previously and didn't need to occur. And, so, the agency 22 had already paid for the space and we took advantage of For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 2 1 that. As I know all of you expect us to be frugal with 2 your tax-paying dollars. 3 The bad news, other than the conflict with 4 holidays and spring breaks and whatnot, is that the SAP - 5 - in our SAPs we generally do not accommodate with coffee 6 and any other refreshments, and so we have to live with 7 that arrangement and couldn't change it at the last 8 minute. So, we don't have complimentary coffee, and I 9 apologize for that. The restaurant downstairs, however, 10 will accommodate take-out and you folks really need to 11 get that fixed -- the Sheraton's restaurant is able to 12 accommodate you. 13 I did want to recognize that because we actually 14 have two new members to our PPDC. I'm not sure if either 15 of them are here -- Christina Thayer from the 16 Environmental Working Group has replaced Sean Gray. 17 Christina is not here yet, is she? And Rich Liroff, who 18 I also believe isn't here yet -- oh, yes, there he is -- 19 hey, Rich -- from the World Wildlife Federation has 20 replaced Sarah Lynch. 21 They are permanent -- I use that word loosely -- 22 new members to the work group. None of us are permanent. For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 3 1 These are two-year appointments. And all of us who are 2 here are on two-year appointments. I'm unclear how long 3 my appointment's going to last. 4 (Laughter.) 5 MR. JONES: There are also a number of 6 individuals around the table who are sitting in for a 7 permanent member, and when we go around, after 8 introductory remarks, if you can just introduce not only 9 yourself but who you are sitting in for, I would 10 appreciate that. 11 As many of you know, sort of segueing into 12 change, transition, we have a number of -- there have 13 been a number of new personnel changes or personnel 14 changes in the Pesticide Program since we last got 15 together. I think, probably, most obvious is the one 16 that affects me, that Marcia Mulkey, the director for the 17 previous five years, has left the Pesticide Program. She 18 is now on an employment detail to the FAO in Rome and 19 she'll follow that with a, what we refer to in the 20 government as an IPA, an Inter-governmental Personnel 21 Act, assignments to Temple University as a visiting 22 scholar. Actually, Marcia has been very good about not, For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 4 1 you know, giving me too much advice over the last three 2 weeks. She e-mailed me this morning with a very funny 3 anecdote that I thought I would share. 4 She's putting together a kind of a best 5 practices or a code of conduct for pesticide use. It's 6 actually been drafted. She's sort of doing some 7 editorial work around it. And she said one of the things 8 she found in some of her research was it was advice to 9 people doing water monitoring in Africa, and after it 10 gave sort of some technical things you need to be 11 focusing on about how to take the samples and things like 12 that -- and be very careful about crocodiles and 13 alligators. 14 (Laughter.) 15 MR. JONES: And, so, I said, well -- and then 16 she follows, Generally just good advice for the Office of 17 Pesticide Program Office Director. 18 (Laughter.) 19 MR. JONES: And then I e-mailed back quickly and 20 I mentioned PPDC meeting, and she responded and said, 21 That was one of the most favorite things I did and I know 22 you're going to love it, too. For The Record, Inc. Waldorf, Maryland (301)870-8025 5 1 But, I thought I would pass that along from 2 Marcia. I am now the Director of the Office of Pesticide 3 Programs and I'm very excited and thrilled about the 4 opportunity, at large, of being the Director of the 5 Pesticides Program. I think it's one of the most 6 interesting, compelling and important public service jobs 7 there is in the Agency, and I'm pleased and proud to have 8 this opportunity. 9 Likewise, I'm very excited about having an 10 opportunity to chair the Pesticide Program Dialogue 11 Committee. I think that the Agency has been a leader and 12 OPP has been a leader in trying to bring stakeholders 13 together, to understand the concerns and the issues of 14 stakeholders to be aggressive about getting stakeholder 15 input into what we do in the Office of Pesticide Programs 16 and EPA at large, and it's very rewarding for me to have 17 such a leadership role in an organization that listens to 18 its stakeholders and provides stakeholders an opportunity 19 to give feedback and advice.