UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20460

OFFICE OF

PREVENTION, PESTICIDES, AND

TOXIC SUBSTANCES

Memorandum 

DATE: 	 October 3, 2006

SUBJECT: 	Transmission of Background Materials and Charge to the Panel
for the October 24-26, 2006 Session of the FIFRA Scientific Advisory
Panel (SAP) Entitled “Evaluation of the Resistance Risks from Using
100% Bollgard and Bollgard II Cotton as Part of a Pink Bollworm
Eradication Program in the State of Arizona”

FROM: 	Janet L. Andersen, Ph.D., Director /s/

		Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P)

TO: 		Myrta Christian

Designated Federal Official 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel 

Office of Science Coordination and Policy (7201M) 

Attached are 20 compact discs and 2 paper copies of all background
documents and the charge to the panel for the October 24-26, 2006 FIFRA
SAP session: Evaluation of the Resistance Risks from Using 100% Bollgard
and Bollgard II Cotton as Part of a Pink Bollworm Eradication Program in
the State of Arizona.  These materials do not contain any information
protected under statute as Confidential Business Information (CBI). 
These materials do not contain information protected from disclosure to
foreign and multi-national pesticide producers under FIFRA Section
10(g).  In addition, these materials include information protected by
copyright.  The Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD)
has obtained permission from the publishers to reproduce these
copyrighted materials for purposes of the FIFRA SAP review and in the
form (electronic and/or paper) attached to this memorandum.  The
attached documents include the following:

Document Title	Author(s)	Date	Indicate Whether FIFRA 10(g) or ©
Protected

Transmittal memorandum	Janet Andersen	9/27/06

	Charge to the panel	Janet Andersen	9/27/06

	EPA technical review of materials supporting Arizona’s 24 (c)
applications (AZ05009 and AZ050010) to replace structured non-Bt cotton
refuges with sterile insect technology and 100% Bollgard and Bollard II
cotton	Sharlene Matten	9/26/06

	Figures 1-4 from EPA Technical Review	Sharlene Matten	9/26/06	©
protected

Cover letter from Arizona Department of Agriculture to transmit data to
EPA (MRID# 469048-00) -- includes two reprinted articles listed below:
Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	a) Documentary support for continuation of a Special Local Need
registration in Arizona for maximized use of Bt cotton in a sanctioned
pink bollworm eradiation program	Larry Antilla	8/3/06

	b) Integrated management approaches for pink bollworm in the
southwestern United States	Thomas Henneberry and Steven Naranjo	1998	©
protected

Volume 1:  Bt/non-Bt mapping and program management data (MRID#
469048-01) -- consists of the following four documents listed below:
Jack Peterson	8/3/06	 

a) Document 1:  Suggested use of trapping and map data	Jack Peterson
8/3/06

	b) GPS maps/field locations and designations (4 maps)	Jack Peterson
8/3/06	© protected

c) Document 2:  Arizona pink bollworm sterile moth background and
release protocol	Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	d) Table 1:  Program applied pheromone and insecticide treatment data
Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	Volume 2:  Program pink bollworm trapping and boll sampling data (MRID#
469048-02) -- consists of the following eight documents listed below:
Jack Peterson	8/3/06	 

a) Table 1:  2006 pink bollworm eradication program trapping data June
25- July 22	Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	b) Table 2:  Eradication program PBW/trap averages by field 6/25 -
7/22/06	Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	c) Table 3:  Weekly PBW eradication program averages by cotton type
6/25 - 7/22/06	Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	d) Table 4:  Pink bollworm eradication boll sampling data July 16-22,
2006	Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	e) Document 1:  Special report 2006:  local movement of sterile pink
bollworm moths in the San Joaquin Valley of California 	Dan Keavney, Jim
Hessler, Jim Rudig, and Robert Staten	8/3/06

	f) Map 1:  Release zones and non-release zones 1, 2, and 3	Jack
Peterson	8/3/06

	g) Document 2:  Spatial analysis of native and sterile pink bollworm in
the Arizona PBW eradication program area, June 25-July 22, 2006	David
Bartels and Michelle Walters	8/3/06

	h) Map 2:  Arizona pink bollworm trapping data predicted levels - 2006
growing season (9 Kriging maps)	Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	Volume 3:  Resistance monitoring data from moths collected in pheromone
traps (MRID# 469048-03) - consists of the following three documents
listed below:	Jack Peterson	8/3/06

	a) Document 3:  2006 Arizona adult pink bollworm moths sampling for
molecular analysis	Larry Antilla	8/3/06

	       b) “DNA screening reveals pink bollworm resistance to Bt
cotton remains rare after a decade of exposure” (published journal
article)	Bruce Tabashnik et al.	2006	© protected

Volume 4:  Resistance monitoring data for 2005/2006 larval populations 
(MRID# 469048-04) -- consists of the following four documents listed
below:	Jack Peterson	8/3/06	 

a) Document 1:  Preliminary report on susceptibility of southwestern
pink bollworm to Bt toxins Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab2 in 2005	Timothy Dennehy,
Gopalan Unnithan, Sarah Brink, and Brook Wood	8/3/06

	b) Document 2:  Susceptibility to Bt toxins Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab2 of
Southwestern pink bollworm in 2004	Timothy Dennehy et al.	8/3/06

	c) Document 3:  Susceptibility of southwestern pink bollworm to Bt
toxins Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab2:  final results of 2003 season studies	Timothy
Dennehy et al.	8/3/06

	d) Document 4:  Susceptibility of southwestern pink bollworm to Cry2Ab:
 baseline responses in 2001 and 2002	Gopalan Unnithan et al.	8/3/06

	Volume 5:  Simulation modeling comparing population suppression vs.
resistance risk for duration of eradication program (MRID# 469048-05) --
consists of the following three documents listed below:	Jack Peterson
8/3/06	 

a) Document 1:  Simulation modeling of the pink bollworm eradication
program in Arizona	Bruce Tabashnik and Mark Sisterson	7/28/06

	b) Document 2:  “Delayed resistance to transgenic cotton in pink
bollworm” (published journal article)	Bruce Tabashnik, Timothy
Dennehy, and Yves Carriere	10/25/05	© protected

c) Document 3:  “Effects of insect population size on evolution of
resistance to transgenic crops” (published journal article)	Mark
Sisterson, Larry Antilla, Yves Carriere, Christa Ellers-Kirk, and Bruce
Tabashnik	2004	© protected

Memorandum from Arizona Cotton Research and Protection Council (Larry
Antilla) to Sharlene Matten containing supplemental sampling and
trapping information	Larry Antilla	9/14/06

	E-mail from Bruce Tabashnik to Sharlene Matten containing supplemental
information on sterile release rates	Bruce Tabashnik	9/14/06

	Bruce Tabashnik response to questions from Sharlene Matten on PCR and
molecular analysis	Bruce Tabashnik	9/14/06

	Plans for DNA screening of pink bollworm in Arizona 2006	Timothy
Dennehy and Bruce Tabashnik	9/14/06

	Bruce Tabashnik response to questions from Sharlene Matten on modeling
Bruce Tabashnik	9/14/06

	Table containing parameter values for the eradication model	Bruce
Tabashnik	6/23/06

	EPA Review of 2004 pink bollworm monitoring data and revised monitoring
protocol submitted by Monsanto for Bt cotton (Bollgard and Bollgard II)
Alan Reynolds and Sharlene Matten	7/20/06

	“Mating response behavior of sterile pink bollworms (Lepidoptera: 
Gelechiidae) compared with natives” (published journal article)	T.A.
Miller, E. Miller, R. Staten, and K. Middleham	1994	© protected



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