—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 29,1978 24 Pesticide control bill passed by committee WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Senate-House Conference Committee has reached agreement on a long-stalled bill to overhaul and extend the government’s pesticide use and control program. Conferees stamped ap proval on a complex bill designed to simplify procedures that have bogged down administration of the pesticide program authorized under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The bill will give states a larger role in the pesticide program than they have under existing law. While leaving ultimate responsibility for ad ministration of the Act in the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, the conference-approved bill will allow qualifying states to exercise primary en forcement responsibility over use and control of approved pesticides. Senator Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and senior Senate member of the Conference, said the bill strikes a sound balance between,the safe use of in sect and pest control chemicals and protection of human health and the en vironment from harmful pesticide side effects. A major beneficiary of the bill will be the Nation’s farmers who depend heavily on pesticides to control crop destroying insects. “The bill will provide efficient machinery for the registration and delivery of pesticides that farmers must have if they are to meet demands placed on them for the production of food and fiber,” Talmadge said. “At the same time, the Conference Committee believes the bill contains adequate safeguards for human health and en vironmental protection,” he said. VENTILATING p 5 The Conference Com mittee agreement came after months of negotiations. The Senate passed a FIFRA bill a year ago this month, and the House approved a different version of the bill in October. Tedious deliberations were necessary to perfect a final bill that answered en vironmental, agricultural, enforcement, and state federal jurisdictional con cerns. The Conference-approved bill now goes back to the House and Senate for final approval. The bill extends spending authority for pesticide control programs through September 30, 1979. It authorizes spending of $54.4 million in the current fiscal year and up to $7O million for the year ending September 30,1979. The major thrust of the legislation is to unclog the machinery created under prior legislation for the control and regulation of pesticides that are de -*ed essential to the American agricultural system. The 1972 amendments to FIFRA required that all pesticides - some 40,000 - be re registered and classified by October 21, 1977. However, burdensome procedures have prevented the re registration process from being realized and only a handful of new registrations have been made since 1972. The bill would authorize simplified registration procedures by EPA, in cluding “conditional” registration under certain specified conditions and where there would be no unreasonable adverse en vironmental effect. It would also permit certain specific exemptions from the present prohibition of the pesticide’s use that may be inconsistent with its labeling. The legislation also requires EPA to develop standards for data requirements for “registering” minor use of k pesticides - those fanners the lengthy re-registration use on crops of a localized process. Delaying nature. These standards classification until re must take into consideration registration has been the extent use involved and completed could seriously the impact of the cost of hamper the ability of far meeting the data* mers and other pesticide requirements on the in- users to get needed pest centive to develop the data, control supplies. The bill would also allow a general provision of the EPA to classify currently- bill would permit the states approved pesticides for to exercise primary either “general” or responsibility for en “restncted” use without forcement of FIFRA, waiting for the completion of pro vided they have adopted USED COMBINE Cockshutt 427 w/power steering , PA & 10’ platform *1,450. USED COMBINE John Deere 55 Corn Soybean tlg * - AA Special 12’ Head *1i,700. 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