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Issues adressed by the Georgia Cotton Commission
July 19, 2010 -- The Commission submitted a letter to the EPA concerning Docket Number EPA-HQ-OW-2010-0257-The Draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Pesticide General Permit (PGP) for point Source Discharges from Application Pesticides. Click on the links to see the letter and other background information
Read the Commission's comment letter
Read the EPA's Draft General Permit
Read the National Cotton Council's comment letter
May 18, 2010 -- The Commission penned a letter to Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson in support of Senator Murkowski's resolution (S.J. Res. 26) to disapprove the regulation of greenhouse gases by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act.
More information
View the Commission's letter
March 1, 2010 -- For decades, EPA and state pesticide policies have acknowledged that a small level of pesticide drift is unavaoidable and, when used according to the product label, does not pose an "unreasonable adverse effect. When determined that certain uses of a product could cause an unreasonable adverse effect, restrictions are placed on the use of that product to meet the standard. Unlike the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rotenticide Act (FIFRA) risk standard set and repeatedly confirmed by Congress, EPA's newly proposed spray drift policy, "Do not apply this product in a manner that results in spray (or dust) drift that could cause an adverse effect to people or any other non-target organism, adopts a precautionary principle approach and effectively replaces FIFRA's risk-benefit standard with a new zero-risk standard. This proposed language change on commercial and non-commercial pesticides would force all states to become assessors of theoretical risks. Applicators would then be subject to risk lawsuits everytime they go to work.
The Georgia Cotton Commission submitted a letter in opposition to this EPA proposal, on behalf of Georgia's cotton producers.
More proposal information
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December 4, 2009 -- Letters written to Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss regarding bipartisan disasterassistance legislation introduced by Senators Cochran, Wicker and Lincoln. We are in favor of the legislation but the commission's letter addresses a provision in it that would treat several parts of our region unfairly.
More information
View one of the Commission's letters
October 27, 2009 -- Letter sent to the US Department of Agriculture regarding Conservation Stewardship Program rules
Docket No. NRCS-IFR-09004
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September 18, 2009 -- The commission penned a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency urging them to re-register glyphosate.
Public comments will be accepted until September 21, 2009, and may be submitted vis the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361Glyphosate Registration Review
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August 20, 2009 -- A letter was written by the Commission to the EPA opposing their proposed buffers on herbicides. They have decided we need an 850 foot buffer area between where we apply Reflex and essentially the woods, which would eliminate the practical use of this herbicide...
Read more by Dr. Stanley Culpepper
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July 8, 2009 -- A letter was written from the Commission to The Honorable Paul C. Broun opposing his proposed amendment to the Agriculture Appropriations Bill.
Read the proposed amendment
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June 26, 2009 -- The Commission wrote letters to The Honorable John Barrow; Sanford Bishop, Jr. Paul Broun; Nathan Deal; Phil Gingrey; Henry "Hank" C. Johnson; Jack Kingston; John Lewis; John Linder; Jim Marshall; Tom Price; David Scott and Lynn Westmoreland to express opposition to HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act as it is currently written.
HR 2454 summary
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June 2, 2009 -- The Commission wrote letters to legislators, The Honorable Sanford Bishop, Jack Kingston and F. Allen Boyd, urging them not to amend cotton provisions of the 2008, farm law concerning termination of cotton storage credits.
Background information
View the letter
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