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RCED-94-294R 1 (1994-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Iz' GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-258202 August 25, 1994 The Honorable E (Kika) de la Garza Chairman The Honorable Pat Roberts Ranking Minority Member Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives As requested by your offices, this correspondence provides information on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) assessments of the (1) risk posed to birds by agricultural uses of granular carbofuran,' including sorghum uses, and (2) economic impacts on growers of canceling sorghum uses of granular carbofuran. These assessments were part of EPA's special review, or detailed analysis, of this pesticide, which was initiated in response to concerns about acute avian toxicity. This correspondence also provides information on the views of other interested parties on EPA's assessments of the risk and economic impacts. These parties include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the FMC Corporation (the major producer and sole registrant of pesticide products containing carbofuran), and the National Grain Sorghum Producer's Association (NGSPA). Specifically, your offices asked that we review EPA's risk assessment of granular carbofuran to identify the agency's conclusions on the (1) acute avian toxicity of this pesticide compared with alternative pesticides; (2) likelihood of avian exposure, including exposure resulting 'Carbofuran, an insecticide and nematicide, was registered by EPA for use on a variety of fruit and field crops, vegetables, tobacco, ornamental plants, and forest tree seedlings. EPA has canceled most of these uses, including sorghum uses. Carbofuran is produced in both a granular and flowable (liquid) formulation. GAO/RCED-94-294R, EPA's Assessment of Granular Carbofuran

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