TITLE: Review the Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act

CIS-NO: 99-H161-27  
SOURCE: Committee on Agriculture. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Apr. 22, 1999  
LENGTH: iii+123 p.  
CONG-SESS: 106-1  
ITEM-NO: 1010-A; 1010-B  
SUDOC: Y4.AG8/1:106-16  
MC-ENTRY-NO: 99-20218  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-16. Hearing before the Subcom on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry to review USDA and EPA implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996, which revises Federal pesticide regulatory programs by replacing the Delaney clause with a single negligible risk assessment-based standard applicable to tolerances of pesticide residues in raw and processed foods, and by facilitating registration of pesticides for low-volume use on minor crops.
 
Supplementary material (p. 63-123) includes witnesses' written statements, submitted statements, and correspondence.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS, OVERSIGHT, NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY. HOUSE;  PESTICIDES; FOOD ADULTERATION AND INSPECTION; DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY; FOOD INDUSTRY; PRODUCT SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION; RISK ANALYSIS; FOOD QUALITY PROTECTION ACT; DELANEY CLAUSE

99-H161-27 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Apr. 22, 1999 p. 8-11
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   HASTINGS, RICHARD (Rep, R-Wash)
 
STATEMENT:
   Merits of legislation to ensure that sound data is used in implementing FQPA.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review
 
 
99-H161-27 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Apr. 22, 1999 p. 12-31, 63-72
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   PITTS, KEITH (Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary, USDA)
   AIDALA, JAMES V. (Associate Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, EPA)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Review of progress in USDA and EPA FQPA implementation (related materials, p. 69-72); elaboration on FQPA implementation and related issues.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review
 
 
99-H161-27 TESTIMONY NO: 3     Apr. 22, 1999 p. 32-45, 74-84, 97-106
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   LOVELADY, WILLIAM T. (former President, National Cotton Council)
   KARST, HERBERT S. (President, National Barley Growers Association)
   KLECKNER, DEAN R. (President, American Farm Bureau Federation)
   WILSON, DOUGLAS A. (President, Illinois Corn Growers' Association; representing National Corn Growers' Association)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Views on and concerns regarding EPA FQPA implementation (related correspondence, p. 97-106).
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL
 
 
99-H161-27 TESTIMONY NO: 4     Apr. 22, 1999 p. 46-63, 84-90, 107-115
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   VROOM, JAY J. (President, American Crop Protection Association)
   SMITH, FRANCES B. (Executive Director, Consumer Alert)
   DIPPEL, DONNIE (Assistant Commissioner, Pesticide Programs, Texas Department of Agriculture)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Importance of basing FQPA implementation on sound scientific principles; need for policymakers to consider unintended consequences for consumers of pesticide regulation mandated by FQPA; perspectives on FQPA implementation issues.
 
INSERTION:
   -- National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, "Pesticide Regulation" Feb. 22, 1999 (p. 107-115).
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Pesticides regulatory programs revision, implementation review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AMERICAN CROP PROTECTION ASSOCIATION; CONSUMERS