UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460

OFFICE OF

PREVENTION, PESTICIDES

AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES

	

MEMORANDUM

Date/Time: 	September 15, 2016 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Subject: 	Office of Pesticide Programs Meeting with the Illinois Farm
Bureau to Discuss Atrazine and Glyphosate

From: 		Marianne A. Mannix, Chemical Review Manager

Re-evaluation Management and Implementation Branch III

Pesticide Re-evaluation Division (7508P)

Participants: 	EPA: Yu-Ting Guilaran, Kelly Sherman, Avivah Jakob,
Marianne Mannix, Khue Nguyen, Tom Moriarty,  Neil Anderson, Dana Spatz,
Mark Corbin

	Illinois Farm Bureau: Michelle Aavang, Tara Yoder, Megan Dwyer, Keith
Poole, Keith Mussman, Evan Hulfine, Marc Lamayk, Adam Nielson, Dale
Hodder, Ryan Whitehouse, Walter Wallace, 

	Peoria County Farm Bureau: Masood Ali

Meeting Summary:

At the request of the Illinois Farm Bureau, on September 15, 2015
members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA or the Agency)
Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) atrazine and glyphosate teams
(Pesticide Re-evaluation Division and Environmental Fate and Effects
Division) met with the Illinois Farm Bureau to discuss the recently
published draft atrazine ecological risk assessment and the status of
glyphosate registration review. The IL Farm Bureau conveyed the
significance of these two active ingredients to IL agriculture and
stressed the importance of their continued registration. EPA updated the
IL Farm Bureau on the registration review status of both active
ingredients and encouraged the IL Farm Bureau to submit their comments
on the draft atrazine ecological risk assessment to the atrazine
registration review docket (located on regulations.gov; Docket ID:
EPA-HQ-OPP-2013-0266-0315) The comment period for the draft atrazine
ecological risk assessment opened on June 6, 2016 and is scheduled to
close on October 5, 2016.  EPA anticipates publishing for public comment
the draft triazine cumulative human health risk assessment in December
2016. For details of the glyphosate discussion, view the meeting minutes
posted in the glyphosate registration review docket on regulations.gov
(docket #:EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361). 

