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B-198288 1 (1980-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjey0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 /~c)66 ar~5 in t 3i The Honorable William C. Wampler Ranking Minority Member Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives }o not make availablo to publie z.vatug Dear Mr. Wampler: This is to confirm the agreements reached at a March 24, 1980, meeting attended by you, Thomas Adams and John Hogan of the House Agriculture Committee staff, and representatives of our Community and Economic Development Division. The meeting was held to discuss your March 11, 1980, letter requesting that we review the appro- priateness of the procedures followed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in suspending most uses of the pesticides 2, 4, 5-T and silvex and initiating cancellation procedures on all uses of these pesticides. At the meeting, we agreed to immediately start review- ing the three areas discussed on page 2 of your March 11, 1980, letter. Briefly they are: 1. Identify and evaluate methods and procedures established by EPA to properly evaluate scientific evidence relied on by EPA to suspend and initiate cancellation procedures on a pesticide. 2. Determine whether EPA followed these established methods and procedures in the case of 2, 4, 5-T and silvex. 3. Identify prior GAD or National Academy of Sciences recommendations on pesticide regulatory issues which, if implemented by EPA, might have avoided questions of the appropriateness of EPA's emergency suspension and cancellation actions on 2, 4, 5-T and silvex. In performing our review, we also agreed to carefully consider whether the Congress needs to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungi- cide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.), as amended to assure that EPA uses fair and equitablTe procedures when deciding whether to suspend or cancel a pesticide. Finally, we I) r N )\ CED 0-206 B-198288 5- f_5--Zf

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