REGULATION OF PESTICIDES

United States.

APPENDIX TO HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS,
RESEARCH, AND FOREIGN AGRICULTURE

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

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COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

E (KIKA) DE LA GARZA, Texas, Chairman

THOMAS S. FOLEY, Washington,

Vice Chairman

WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina
ED JONES, Tennessee

GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California
CHARLES ROSE, North Carolina
JIM WEAVER, Oregon
TOM HARKIN, Iowa
BERKLEY BEDELL, Iowa
GLENN ENGLISH, Oklahoma

LEON E. PANETTA, California
JERRY HUCKABY, Louisiana
DAN GLICKMAN, Kansas

CHARLES WHITLEY, North Carolina
TONY COELHO, California
TOM DASCHLE, South Dakota
CHARLES W. STENHOLM, Texas
HAROLD L. VOLKMER, Missouri
CHARLES HATCHER, Georgia
ROBIN TALLON, South Carolina

HARLEY O. STAGGERS, JR., West Virginia
RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois

LANE EVANS, Illinois

ROBERT LINDSAY THOMAS, Georgia

JAMES R. OLIN, Virginia

TIMOTHY J. PENNY, Minnesota

EDWARD R. MADIGAN, Illinois,
Ranking Minority Member
JAMES M. JEFFORDS, Vermont
E. THOMAS COLEMAN, Missouri
RON MARLENEE, Montana
LARRY J. HOPKINS, Kentucky
GEORGE HANSEN, Idaho

ARLAN STANGELAND, Minnesota
PAT ROBERTS, Kansas
BILL EMERSON, Missouri

JOE SKEEN, New Mexico

SID MORRISON, Washington
STEVE GUNDERSON, Wisconsin
COOPER EVANS, Iowa

GENE CHAPPIE, California
WEBB FRANKLIN, Mississippi

PROFESSIONAL STAFF

A. MARIO CASTILLO, Staff Director
ROBERT M. BOB, Chief Counsel
JOHN E. HOGAN, Minority Counsel
BERNARD BRENNER, Press Secretary

SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FOREIGN AGRICULTURE

GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California, Chairman

HARLEY O. STAGGERS, JR., West Virginia

TIMOTHY J. PENNY, Minnesota
LEON E. PANETTA, California
THOMAS S. FOLEY, Washington
TONY COELHO, California
HAROLD L. VOLKMER, Missouri
JAMES R. OLIN, Virginia

PAT ROBERTS, Kansas

STEVE GUNDERSON, Wisconsin
COOPER EVANS, Iowa

WEBB FRANKLIN, Mississippi

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FOREWORD

FORMAT OF HEARINGS ON THE REGULATION OF PESTICIDES

The Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee conducted six public hearings on a range of pesticide regulatory issues during the first session of the 98th Congress. These hearings are printed in a four-volume set which includes all testimony, correspondence between the Subcommittee and Executive Branch agencies, material submitted for the record, and the DORFA Subcommittee staff report entitled "Regulatory Procedures and Public Health Issues in the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs." The volumes contain the following material:

Volume I:

A. Public Hearings: February 22 and 23, 1983 in Washington, D.C.-"Review of Staff Report Regulatory Procedures and Public Health Issues in the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs.""

B. Public Hearing: April 6, 1983 in Washington, D.C.-"To Review Legislation Reauthorizing the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).”

Volume II:

A. Public Hearing: June 9, 1983 in Washington, D.C.-"Review of Issues Related to the Export of Pesticides from the United States." B. Public Hearing: July 6, 1983 in Berkeley, California—“Pest Control Strategies-Domestic and International Issues."

C. Public Hearing: July 27, 1983 in Washington, D.C.-"Improving the Quality of Data Supporting Pesticide Regulatory Decisions." Volume III:

A. "Regulatory Procedures and Public Health Issues in the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs," investigative report prepared by staff of the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture (DORFA) dated July 1983.

B. Agency Correspondence and Subcommittee Memoranda Pertaining to the DORFA Staff Report.

C. Responses to DORFA Questions Submitted to Department of Health and Human Services Agencies.

D. Sections 18 and 24 (c) Registrations.

E. Regulatory Reform Initiatives and the Registration Standard Program.

Volume IV:

A. Completeness and Quality of Pesticide Safety and Health Data. B. Issues Related to the Export of Pesticides.

C. Peer Review Comments on DORFA Staff Report.

D. Congressional Research Service Analyses and Miscellaneous Items.

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