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VOLUME IV

A. Completeness and Quality of Pesticide Safety and Health Data

Data Requirements

1. Letter to Chairman Brown from Dr. Todhunter, OPTS/EPA, dated

March 24, 1983. Letter transmits an updated chart entitled "Summary

of Data Requirements for Registration of Pesticides and Date Estab-

lished"

2. Excerpt from Federal Register notice "Data Requirements for Regis-

tration-Part 158, Subparts A and B" draft dated May 24, 1982‒‒‒‒

Laboratory Audit Program

3. Letter to Mr. William Ruckelshaus, Administrator, EPA, from Con-

gressmen Brown and Roberts, dated June 28, 1983, regarding July 27,

1983 hearing "Improving the Quality of Data Supporting Pesticide

Regulatory Decisions".

Attachments include:

i) Hearing Charter_

ii) Extension of Remarks by Chairman Brown, June 20, 1983-
iii) Extension of Remarks by Chairman Brown, June 23, 1983_

4. Documents summarizing EPA laboratory audit program accomplish-

i) Status of FY 1982 Audits Activity dated April 26, 1983----

ii) Status of FY 1981 Audits Activity--

iii) Health-Effects Data Status Report: 1979 Report-Updated
March 11, 1982---

5. "Statement of Purpose and Scope-The National Laboratory Audit

Program" OPP/EPA dated April 1, 1983.

6. Standard Operating Procedures for the Internal Audit Function in

OPP dated April 5, 1983..

7. Memorandum to Mr. Edwin Johnson, Director, OPP/EPA, from Mr.

Louis True, Director, Program Management and Support Division

dated August 11, 1983, entitled "Capture of Laboratory ID's (Iden-

tification Numbers) for PDMS (Pesticide Document Management

8. Letter to Chairman Brown from Mr. Maarten deVries, private citizen,

dated August 13, 1983. Letter discusses quality of scientific research

undertaken for pesticide registrations--

Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, Inc. (IBT)

9. Press Release and "Summary of the IBT Review Program" dated July

1983. Detailed OPP/EPA report on the IBT review program with tables

showing the pesticides tested by IBT and their regulatory status--

10. "Comments of the Natural Resources Defense Council on the EPA's
Summary of the IBT Review Program;" dated July 27, 1983-

11. "The Problem of Pesticides Supported by Toxicological Studies Carried

Out by IBT" Background Paper by WHO Secretariat for the Joint

FAO/WHO meeting on pesticides held in Geneva, November 23-Decem-

12. "The Murky World of Toxicity Testing," Science Magazine Vol. 220,

June 10, 1983__

13. "Tighter Controls on Toxics Testing," Chemical Week, August 24,

14. "America's Pesticide Use Raises New Safety Fears," Series in Washing-

ton Post, January 30, 31, February 1, 1983_

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B. Issues Related to the Exports of Pesticides

1. Memorandum to Chairman Brown from Mr. Richard Wiles, DORFA

staff assistant, dated April 28, 1983, entitled "The Report to the Prest-

dent on the Review of the United States Hazardous Substance Export

Policy from Secretary Haig and Baldridge, and the Draft Executive

Order on Exports of Banned or Restricted Products and Substances".

2. DORFA staff explanation dated April 29, 1983, of amendments pro-

posed to Section 17 of FIFRA by the National Agricultural Chemicals

Association in 1981.

3. Memorandum to Members, DORFA Subcommittee from Chairman

Brown dated May 26, 1983. Memorandum transmits "Background In-

formation on International Pesticide Issues," including a detailed

chronology of events pertinent to the export of pesticides from the

United States, and a discussion of legislative proposals----

4. "Statement of Policy on the Labeling Requirements for Exported

Pesticides, Devices, and Pesticide Active Ingredients and the Proce-

dures for Exporting Unregistered Pesticides" from Federal Register

July 28, 1980___.

5. Letter to Chairman Brown from Ms. Mary Rose Hughes, Department

of State, dated June 27, 1983, transmitting material requested at June

9, 1983 hearing-.

6. Letter to Mr. Charles Benbrook, DORFA staff director, from Mr. Jack

Blanchard, Department of State, dated June 6, 1983, regarding the

United States vote against the U.N. resolution "Protection Against

Products Harmful to Health and the Environment"_

7. Letter to Mr. Charles Benbrook from Ms. Cathleen McInerney dated

May 2, 1983 regarding information requested on section 17 of FIFRA__

8. Sample telegram pursuant to section 17(b) of FIFRA on “Notice of

Regulatory Action on Pesticide Endrin".

9. Notices issued by EPA pursuant to section 17(b) of FIFRA on para-

quat dichloride, toxaphene, dichlorvos, chloroform, benomyl, EBDC,

endrin and chlorobenzilate__.

10. Letter to Mr. T. David Woo, clerk of the Senate, State of Hawaii, from

Mr. Edwin Johnson, OPP/EPA, dated June 3, 1983, regarding EPA's

position on the export of pesticides unregistered in the United States--

11. Letter to Mr. Michael Horowitz, OMB, from Ms. Anne Gorsuch, Admin-

istrator, EPA, dated November 24, 1982, commenting on the proposed

executive order entitled "Federal Policy Concerning Notice to Foreign

Governments of United States Actions Regulating Hazardous Mate-

12. Letter to Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal from Ms. Anne Gorsuch,

dated November 24, 1981, regarding EPA's implementation of export

notification provisions under the FIFRA and TSCA statutes_-.

13. "Global Paternalism: The UN and the New International Regulatory

Order," Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. representative to the U.N., American

Enterprise Institute Journal on Government and Society, February

14. "Report on Proposals to Improve Control of Pesticide Residues in Im-

ported Foods," Arthur Hull Hayes, Commissioner of the FDA, March

15. Letter to Chairman Brown from Mr. Edwin Johnson, OPP/EPA, and

Mr. Joseph Hile, FDA, dated March 10, 1981, regarding bilateral U.S.-

Mexico pesticide issues---

16. Letter to Chairman John Dingell, Subcommittee on Oversight and

Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce from Dr. Donald

Huston, Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA,

dated February 18, 1983.......

17. "High Residue Level Reduces Leaf Quality," The News and Observer,

Raleigh, North Carolina, June 6, 1983....

C. Peer Review Comments on DORFA Staff Report

1. National Agricultural Chemicals Association, February 18, 1983--

2. Mr. Sheldon Samuels, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, Febru-

ary 22, 1983__.

3. Dr. William Lijinsky, December 20, 1982---

4. Dr. John Higginson, Universities Associated for Research and Educa-

tion in Pathology, Inc., March 1, 1983_.

5. Dr. Robert A. Neal, President, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicol-

ogy, March 15, 1983__

6. Dr. John H. Weisburger, Vice-President for Research, Naylor Dana In-

stitute for Disease Prevention, letters of January 21 and March 15,

7. Dr. Arthur C. Upton, Chairman of the Institute of Environmental

Medicine, New York University Medical Center, February 7, 1983__.

8. Dr. William Upholt, March 22, 1983_.

9. R. H. Becker, American Cyanamid Company, February 11, 1983..

10. Mr. John A. Gardiner, E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company, letters of

February 18 and March 4, 1983---

11. Dr. Loy C. Newby, CIBA-GEIGY Corporation, February 21, 1983_.

12. Dr. Frederick R. Johannsen, Monsanto Company, February 17, 1983.

13. Mr. A. B. Lindquist, Stauffer Chemical Company, March 4, 1983-

14. Dr. Maarten L. de Vries, Penick Corporation, February 25, 1983-

15. Dr. Joseph P. Brown, Zoecon Corporation, February 7, 1983_.

D. Congressional Research Service Analyses and Miscellaneous Items

1. "Summary of Hearings of House Subcommittee on Department Opera-

tions, Research, and Foreign Agriculture Staff Report: 'Regulatory

Procedures and Public Health Issues in EPA's Office of Pesticide Pro-

grams' " prepared by Mr. James Aidala, Congressional Research Serv-

ice, dated May 13, 1983__

2. "A Legal Analysis of the Tolerance Procedures in the Federal Food,

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) (21 U.S.C. 346, 346a, and 348) and

the Rebuttable Presumption Requirements in the FIFRA, as Amended

by the Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972 (FEPCA)

(7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.)” prepared by Ms. Karen J. Lewis, American Law

Division-Congressional Research Service, dated March 15, 1983__.

3. "Legal Analysis of What Constitutes an Ex Parte Communication and

What Constitutes the Public Record," prepared by Karen J. Lewis,

American Law Division-Congressional Research Service, dated April

4. Memorandum to Mr. Douglas Campt, Director, Registration Division,

OPP/EPA, from Cara S. Jablon, Office of General Counsel, EPA, dated

July 25, 1980, regarding "Cancellation of 3(c)(7) (C) Conditional

5. Letter to Mr. Lee Verstandig, Acting Administrator, EPA, from Mr.

Albert Meyerhoff and Ms. Jacqueline Warren, Natural Resources De-

fense Council, dated April 6, 1983, regarding certain pesticide regula-

tory decisions__.

6. Lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,

for the Natural Resources Defense Council, AFL-CIO, and Hecter

Chavez, against the U.S. EPA and Mr. William D. Ruckelshaus, Ad-

ministrator, EPA_

7. Letter to Chairman Brown from Mr. Robert P. Vogel, Regulatory Coun-

sel for the Rohm and Haas Company dated March 4, 1983, providing

supplementary information on the resolution of the Rebuttable Pre-

sumption Against Registration (RPAR) review of the EBDC

8. Summary, Introduction, and Recommendations Chapter from "Risk

Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process," by the

Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Pub-

lic Health, National Research Council of the National Academy of

Sciences, March 1983__.

9. Excerpts from material submitted for the record by Ms. Maureen

Hinkle, National Audubon Society on epidemiological research on the

effects of pesticide exposure on the incidence of cancer in man__.

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