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OLD FARMER’S WEATHER FORECASTS
New England. January thaw, with moderate to heavy rain in
central and south, snow in north throughout week
Greater New York-New Jersey: Early week cloudy and warmer
with some rain, then partly clear, latter part unseasonably warm,
light rain
Middle Atlantic Coastal. Sunny and warm before ram at mid
week, warm and scattered showers end of week
Piedmont & Southeast Coastal. Warmer with light ram to start,
locally heavy at times and thunderstorms m west, ram continues
latter part then unseasonably warm by week’s end
Florida First part of week mostly sunny and warm with a few
showers, light ram in northwest above-normal temperatures in
north and scattered showers latter part
Upstate N Y -Toronto & Montreal- Week begins ramv and windy,
some moderately heavy snow m north and mountains, rest of
week mild light ram
Greater Ohio Valley Warmer with ram, locally heavy along Ohio
River, to start, end of week partly sunny mild and light ram
Deep South; Week begins wnth ram thunderstorms and possible
tornadoes, then cold and sunny, rain again latter part, then clear
ing and very warm by week's end
Chicago & Southern Great Lakes. Intermittent heavy ram, some
times mixed with snow, in central and south all week, snoyv in
north at first, then sunny and mild
Northern Great Lakes- Generally cold with scattered snow
throughout week, except sunny and mild in east and south latter
part
Central Great Plains. Clear and cold in northwest, light snow in
west and ram and snow in east earlv week, then sunny and mild,
week ends with rain in south and east
Texas-Oklahoma: Week begins cold and stormy, with rain in
central and south, blizzard in north, sunny and warm latter part,
showery over weekend
Rocky Mountain: Clearing in south, warmer in north by midweek,
with some snow and ram, light to moderate snow and cooler latter
part
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! 1)78
CHICAGO - In a debate
before a national meeting of
agricultural editors, a
spokesman of the
agricultural chemical in
dustry attacked the En
vironmental Protection
Agency's implementation of
current pesticide regulation
as overly regimented, in
trusive, and seriously
threatening the nation’s
ability to produce food ef
ficiently. EPA officials at the
meeting contended that new
guidelines recently issued by
EPA Administrator Russell
E. Train counter the
mounting criticism of the
agency’s approach to
pesticide regulation and
decision-making.
The debate was sponsored
by Stauffer Chemical
Company and opened the
winter meeting of the
American Agricultural
Editors Association held
here last month.
Participating in the event
were H. L. Straube,
Chairman of the Board,
National Agricultural
Chemicals Association; Dr.
Jay Turim, Deputy Director,
Office of Regulatory and
Policy Affairs, U.S. En
vironmental Protection
Agency; Kenneth C. Walker,-
Assistant to the Ad
ministrator, Agricultural
Research Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture;
Dr. Samuel R. Aldrich,
Assistant Director,
Agricultural Experiemtn
Station, University of
Illinois; and John J. Neylan
111, Chairman, Chemical
Pesticide Misuse Review
Southwest Desert: Cold snap with severe frost, light snow in east
to start, then clearing and mild end of week ram, fairly heavy m
west, light m east and generally cooler
Pacific Northwest: Early week ram mixed with snow, then warm
ing, light rain latter part, then sunny and cold by week's end
California: Earlv week clear, cold and frosty, then rain m north by
midweek, latter part ramv, snow in mountains, then clearing and
cold
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(All Rights Reserved Yankee, Inc Dublin, NH 03444)
Committee, U.S. En
vironmental - Protection
Agency.
Declaring that a large
body of the agricultural
community is deeply
disturbed about EPA’s
administration of the
Federal Pesticide
Regulation Act, known as
FIFRA, Straube said, “The
pesticide industry, for
example, fully supported the
amended FIFRA since it
became law in 1972 and was
placed under the ad
ministration of the En
vironmental Protection
Agency.
“What we do not support,
however, is EPA’s ad
ministration of FIFRA since
passage of that legislation.
Let me put it to you bluntly:
EPA has mismanaged the
administration of FIFRA.
Over-regulation has become
overkill; and all of us -
consumers, farmers, and the
pesticide industry have
suffered for it.
“This mismanagement is
exemplified by the following
points; First, the most
fundamental philosophy
written into the 1972 FIFRA
act was the requirement that
EPA consider both benefits
and risks of a pesticide in
determining registration or
cancellation of pesticide
registration. The agency has
not done this; they’ve only
been evaluating the risk and
ignoring the benefits. If
there was risk in any degree,
EPA has denied registration
of new products or cancelled
some products already in
use.
In the current chlordane
heptachlor hearings, it has
been stated that ap
proximately 20 insecticides
account for 91 percent of
farm applications. EPA has
banned three of those 20, and
is now attacking two more.
Knock out a few more key
insecticides, and you’ll also
knock out the American
farmer’s ability to produce
food at the rate we now
depend upon.
“Lastly, let me remind you
of the EPA’s establishment
of the pesticide ‘hotline, 1
which set up a toll-free
number in Washington to
receive reports of pesticide
misuse or accidents. In
setting up this hotline, the
agency stated it was
necessary because, misuse
of pesticides annually in
jures hundreds of thousands
of farm workers and hun
dreds of these workers die.
This, of course, is sheer
nonsense, and the EPA
ultimately withdrew the
hotline after being
challenged to substantiate
these assertions.”
Straube indicated that as a
result of industry criticism
and now Congressional
reaction, EPA has instituted
some drastic changes in
administrative guidelines.
These concern the Agency’s
interpretation of what
constitutes carcinogenicity
which will now, for the first
time, draw on scientific
consultation outside of the
EPA.
"Mr. Train alao now wants
external scientific experts to
review EPA’s data and
analyses and to have in
creased personal contact
with parties likely to be
affected by any decision he is
going to make, particularly
the fanning community,”
Straube stated.
But, pointing to past
performance of EPA, Mr
Straube called upon the
agricultural editors in his
audience “to rededicate
yourselves to fully informing
the American fanner on
these issues” and to make
sure EPA now follows
through on its proclaimed
reforms. 0
In discussing some of the
changes Jn the pesticide
regulatory'Act, EPA’s John
J. Neylan stated, “We felt
the need for a mechanism to
inform the chemical in
dustry, the pest owifroi in
dustry, and the general
public of the enforcement
policies of the Agency.'*’ To
accomplish this the Agency
instituted a series of policy
statements designed to in
crease the predictability of
enforcement actions,
establish enforcement
precedent, among other
factors. These will also serve
to provide public notice of
instances in which
deviations from pesticide
label directions will not
subject the,. user to en
forcement liability, Mr.
Neylan explained.