[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 158 (Friday, August 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43730-43731]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21807]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-00498; FRL-5731-6]


Pesticide Spray Drift Task Force; Data Review Workshop

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is giving notice of a 
public workshop for the Spray Drift Task Force Data Review.

DATES: The workshop will be held on Thursday, September 11, 1997, from 
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday, September 12, 1997, from 8:30 a.m. 
to noon.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at: the Days Inn, 2000 Jefferson 
Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: Arnet Jones (7507C), Nelson 
Thurman (7507C), or Leo LaSota (7509C), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460. 
Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses: Arnet Jones, (703) 305-7416, 
[email protected]; Nelson Thurman, (703) 308-0465, 
[email protected]; and Leo LaSota, (703) 305-7402, 
LaS[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The chief purpose of the workshop is to 
discuss the scientific aspects of the aerial field studies and 
supporting data (including atomization, physical properties studies) 
which the Pesticide Spray Drift Task Force (SDTF) submitted to EPA. The 
participants in the workshop will include OPP's Environmental Effects 
and Fate Division, EPA's Office of Research and Development, USDA's 
Agricultural Research Service, Environment Canada, and California EPA's 
Department of Pesticide Regulation, all of which have prepared reviews 
of the aerial field data and supporting studies. In addition to these 
organizations, three independent scientists who have prepared reviews 
under contract to OPP will also make presentations. A list of studies 
submitted by the SDTF is available from one of the contacts listed 
above.

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    The workshop will focus on the technical reviews by the invited 
participants. However, outside observers (interested parties who were 
not part of the technical review) will have an opportunity to comment 
on scientific and technical issues related to the studies after the 
initial presentations on the morning of the 11th. Additional comments 
may also be made on the morning of the 12th, after the reviewers have 
discussed the issues raised on the first morning and have prepared a 
summary of their responses. A demonstration of the AgDRIFT Model will 
be given the afternoon of the 11th. The SDTF aerial data and the 
results of this peer review workshop will be discussed with the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory 
Panel at their December 1977 meeting.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, Pesticides.

Dated: August 12, 1997.

Anne E. Lindsay,
Director, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide 
Programs.

[FR Doc. 97-21807 Filed 8-14-97; 8:45 am]
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