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Project Title:
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Ecological Risk Assessment Under FIFRA and ESA
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DELS-BEST-11-01
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Major Unit:
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Environmental Studies & Toxicology
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RSO:
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Policansky, David
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Environment and Environmental Studies
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1st Meeting of the Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment Under FIFRA and ESA
November 3, 2011 - November 4, 2011
Keck Center
500 5th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001
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If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:
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| Contact Name:
Craig Philip
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cphilip@nas.edu
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| Phone:
202-334-1942
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Fax:
202-334-1393
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Agenda:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
COMMITTEE ON ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT UNDER FIFRA AND ESA
Open Session: November 3, 2010
National Academies Keck Center, Room 201
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
PH: 202-334-2017 / FAX 202-334-2752
AGENDA
1:00 Purpose of Open Session and Introduction of Committee Members
Judith E. McDowell
Chair, Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
1:10 The FIFRA Registration Process and Ecological Risk Assessment at EPA
Steven Bradbury
Director, Office of Pesticide Programs, USEPA
Edward Odenkirchen
Senior Scientist, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, USEPA
2:20 The ESA and Ecological Risk Assessment at the Services
Scott Hecht
Toxicologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nancy Golden
Pesticide Consultation Toxicologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Nathaniel Scholz
Supervisory Research Zoologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
3:30 BREAK
3:45 Ecological Risk Assessment Issues – Perspective from the USDA
Ann Bartuska
Deputy Undersecretary, Research, Education and Economics, Department of Agriculture
David Epstein
Entomologist, Office of Pest Management Policy, Department of Agriculture
Harold Thistle
Program Manager, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Department of Agriculture
4:25 Discussion of Key Issues
4:55 Open Microphone – Comments from the Audience
5:30 END PUBLIC SESSION
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Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting
The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Judith McDowell (chair)
Resit Akcakaya
Mary Jane Angelo
Jim Cowles
Patrick Durkin
Anne Fairbrother
Erica Fleishman
Daniel Goodman
Philip Gschwend
Bruce Hope
Gerald LeBlanc
Scott McMurry
Thomas Quinn
and Nu-May Ruby Reed (via teleconference).
The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
1) Standard NRC discussion of policies, procedures, potential bias, and conflict of interest.
2) Committee’s statement of task and its approach to its task.
3) Information presented in public session and need for additional public sessions.
4) Schedule and agendas for future meetings.
The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
1. CDs received on October 18, 2011, from Donald Brady, Director of the Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of Pesticides Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, containing background materials for the study with an attached list of the materials.
2. Background materials received on October 20, 2011 from Keith Paul, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: (a) 50 CFR Part 402 – Interagency Cooperation – Endangered Species Act of 1973, as Amended; (b) Brosi, B.J. and E.G. Biber. 2009. Statistical inference, type II error, and decision making under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Front. Ecol. Environ. 7(9):487-494; (c) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1973. Endangered Species Act of 1973. As Amended through the 108th Congress. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, DC; (d) U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service. Endangered Species Consultation Handbook: Procedures for Conducting Consultation and Conference Activities Under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. March 1998; (e) Letter from Marjorie A. Nelson, USFWS to Arthur-Jean B. Williams, USEPA. RE: Request for Initiation of Formal Consultation on the Effects of Reregistration of Pesticides. January 14, 2009; (f) McGarvey, D.J. 2007. Merging precaution with sound science under the Endangered Species Act. BioScience. 57(1):65-70; (g) NRC (National Research Council). 1995. Science and the Endangered Species Act. Chapter 8 excerpt, pages 159-170. Washington, DC. National Academies Press; (h) Letter from Marjorie A. Nelson, USFWS to Arthur-Jean B. Williams, USEPA. RE: Informal Consultation on the Effects of Diazinon and Racemic Metolachlor Reregistration on the Endangered Barton Springs Salamander. January 14, 2009; (i) Letter from Marjorie A. Nelson, USFWS to Arthur-Jean B. Williams, USEPA. RE: Informal Consultation of the Effects of Atrazine Reregistration on the Endangered Alabama Sturgeon and Endangered Dwarf Wedgemussel. February 11, 2008; (j) Relyea, R. and J. Hoverman. 2006. Assessing the ecology in ecotoxicology: a review and synthesis in freshwater systems. Ecol. Lett. 9:1157-1171; (k) Sublethal effects in Section 7 consultations: The Services’ Perspective; (l) Washington Toxics Coalition vs. U.S. Department of the Interior. August 24, 2006.
3. NOAA background materials received on October 25, 2011 from Anita Pease, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: (a) NOAA-provided background briefing documents memo. October 21, 2011; (b) NOAA NMFS Approach to this Assessment; (c) Carbamate Opinion Description of the Proposed Action; (d) Macneale, K.H., P.M. Kiffney, and N.L. Scholz. 2010. Pesticides, aquatic food webs, and the conservation of Pacific salmon. Front. Ecol. Environ. 8(9):475-482; (e) NRC (National Research Council). 1995. Science and the Endangered Species Act. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; (f) Gilliom, R.J. 2007. Pesticides in U.S. streams and groundwater. Environ. Sci. & Tech. 41(10):3408-3414; (g) Laetz, C.A., D.H. Baldwin, T.K. Collier, V. Hebert, J.D. Stark, and N.L. Scholz. 2009. The synergistic toxicity of pesticide mixtures: Implications for risk assessment and the conservation of endangered Pacific salmon. Environ. Health Perspect. 117(3):348-353; (h) Sandahl, J.F., D.H. Baldwin, J.J. Jenkins, and N.L. Scholz. 2005. Comparative thresholds for acetylcholinesterase inhibition and behavioral impairment in coho salmon exposed to chlorpyrifos. Environ. Tox. Chem. 24(1):136-145; (i) Sandahl, J.F., D.H. Baldwin, J.J. Jenkins, and N.L. Scholz. 2007. A sensory system at the interface between urban stormwater runoff and salmon survival. Environ. Sci. Tech. 41:2998-3004; (j) Relyea, R.A. and N. Diecks. 2008. An unforeseen chain of events: lethal effects of pesticides on frogs at sublethal concentrations. Ecol. Appl. 18(7):1728-1742; (k) Baldwin, D.H., J.A. Spromberg, T.K. Collier, and N.L. Scholz. 2009. A fish of many scales: extrapolating sublethal pesticide exposures to the productivity of wild salmon populations. Ecol. Appl. 19(8):2004-2015; (l) NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service). 2008. National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion: Environmental Protection Agency Registration of Pesticides Containing Chlorpyrifos, Diazinon, and Malathion; (m) Turner, L. 2003. Chlorpyrifos analysis of risks to endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead. Environmental Field Branch. Office of Pesticide Programs; (n) Turner, L. 2002. Diazinon analysis of risks to endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead. Environmental Field Branch. Office of Pesticide Programs; (o) Martinez, J and J. Leyhe. 2004. Malathion analysis of risks to endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead. Environmental Field Branch. Office of Pesticide Programs; (p) Federal Register. Vol. 64, No. 215. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Definition of ‘‘Harm’’; (q) CFR Part 402 – Interagency Cooperation – Endangered Species Act of 1973, as Amended; (r) U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service. Endangered Species Consultation Handbook: Procedures for Conducting Consultation and Conference Activities Under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. March 1998; (s) EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 1998. Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment. Washington, DC; (t) NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service). 2000. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-42: Viable Salmonid Populations and the Recovery of Evolutionarily Significant Units; (u) Relyea, R. and J. Hoverman. 2006. Assessing the ecology in ecotoxicology: a review and synthesis in freshwater systems. Ecol. Lett. 9:1157-1171; (v) Clements, W.H. and J.R. Rohr. 2009. Community responses to contaminants: using basic ecological principles to predict ecotoxicological effects. Environ. Tox. Chem. 28(9):1789-1800; (w) NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service). 2000. National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion: Environmental Protection Agency Registration of Pesticides Containing Carbaryl, Carbofuran, and Methomyl; (x) Erickson, W. and L. Turner. 2003. Carbaryl analysis of risks to endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead. Environmental Field Branch. Office of Pesticide Programs; (y) Tarkowski, G.M. 2004. Carbofuran analysis of risks to endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead. Environmental Field Branch. Office of Pesticide Programs; (z) Erickson, W. and L. Turner. 2003. Methomyl analysis of risks to endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead. Environmental Field Branch. Office of Pesticide Programs.
4. USDA background materials received on October 25, 2011 from Anita Pease, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: (a) List of Suggested Reading for Modeling; (b) Teske, M.E. H.W. Thistle, W.C. Schou, P.C.H. Miller, J.M. Strager, B. Richardson, M.C. Butler Ellis, J.W. Barry, D.B. Twardus, and D.G. Thompson. 2011. A review of computer models for pesticide deposition prediction. Trans. ASABE. 54(3):789-801.
5. Scientific Issues in Conducting Ecological Risk Assessment for ESA Section 7 FIFRA Consultations. Received on October 31, 2011 from Anita Pease, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
6. Letter from Michael Leggett, CropLife America, dated October 31, 2011, containing questions for NAS panel considerations.
7. RE: FIFRA Endangered Species Task Force Data Contributing to the Assessment of the Risk of FIFRA-Regulated Pesticides to Species Regulated by the ESA. Letter from Bernalyn McGaughey, Project Manager, FIFRA Endangered Species Task Force, dated November 1, 2011.
8. Letter from Michael Leggett, CropLife America, dated November 3, 2011, regarding CropLife America comments to NAS panel on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA.
9. Steven Bradbury and Edward Odenkirchen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Ecological Risk Assessment Process in EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs. Presentation to the Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA on November 3, 2011, in Washington, DC.
10. Scott Hecht and Nat Scholz, NOAA and Nancy Golden, USFWS. Ecological Risk Assessments for Pesticides in the Context of the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Presentation to the Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA on November 3, 2011, in Washington, DC.
11. Ann Bartuska, David Epstein, and Harold Thistle, USDA. Ecological Risk Assessment Issues - Perspective from the USDA. Presentation to the Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA on November 3, 2011, in Washington, DC.
12. NOAA’s Questions to the panel. Received November 3, 2011.
13. Letter from Senator Edward Markey, Ranking Member, Committee on Natural Resources, to Judith McDowell, Chair, Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA, dated November 3, 2011.
14. Letter from Congressmen Doc Hastings and Frank Lucas to Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and ESA dated November 3, 2011, with attachment containing five letters that have been sent to various federal agencies over the past two years that express concerns regarding the scientific basis and lack of economic impacts of biological opinions that have been released on impact of certain pesticides on endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:
November 8, 2011
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