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COMMENTS 

 APPRECIATED 



There may be changes at the Plant 

 Diagnostic Lab at Nesmith Hall 

 (UNH, Durham) next year. The 

 student currently running it, 

 Cheryl Smith, will be graduating 

 soon. This is good news of 

 course, but it also means that 

 there will be no one there to run 

 the lab. 



Costs of running it full-time 

 (equipment, technician's salary, 

 etc.) are high — around $50,000 — 

 and that amount of money is 

 difficult to find. Cooperative 

 Extension is looking into a variety 

 of options, among them an 

 arrangement with another New 

 England college. 



No decisions have been made. If 

 you use the lab or would use it if 

 it offered expanded services or 

 simply want to make your 

 viewpoint known, contact Bruce 

 Marriott, Program Leader, 

 Agricultural Resources, UNH 

 Cooperative Extension. He's at 

 Taylor Hall, UNH, Durham, NH 

 03824, and can be reached at 

 (603)862-1928. 



(Budgetary pressures are not only 

 in New Hampshire. Because of 

 cuts in its state funding, Cornell 

 Cooperative Extension laid off 

 employees last January for the 

 first time in many years and in 

 October announced the following 

 fees: 



1. $25 for each insect, weed, and 

 disease identification. 



2. A fee of $40 for each virus 

 diagnosis requiring laboratory 

 testing procedures. 



3. A fee of $40 for nematode 

 identification. 



"Much thought and discussion has 

 preceded the decision to make 

 these adjustments in fee policies. 

 The current fiscal situation has 

 left no alternative if Cornell is to 

 continue to provide this service.") 



SPECLAL THANKS 



The Board wishes to thank the 

 hosts of our two fall twilight 

 meetings, Peter and Leslie Van 

 Berkum of V;in Berkum Nursery in 

 Deerf'ield and Bill Conlcy of The 

 Conley Farm in Rochester. We alst) 

 wish to thaiik Bob Demers, Jr., (and 

 family) tor supplying the refresh- 

 ments at Cxmley's. Both places were 

 well worth seeing. At both, the 

 information given was solid and the 

 hospitality e.xceptional. Again, 

 thanks to all concerned. 

 (The NHPGA is beginnini;; to put 

 together a series of twilii^ht meetings 

 for 1992. .Anyone interested in 

 hosting a meeang should contact one 

 of the Board.) 



EPA ISSUES NOTICE 

 OF INTENT TO REMOVE 

 358 PESTICIDE ACTIVE 

 INGREDIENTS FROM 

 THE REREGISTRATION 

 LISTS 



EPA intends to remove 358 pes- 

 ticide active ingredients from 

 any further consideration for 

 reregistration (renewed license 

 to distribute or sell in the 

 United States) and to cancel 

 the registration of 1,053 pesti- 

 cide products containing these 

 active ingredients. The Agency 

 is taking these actions because 

 the registrants of these active 

 ingredients tailed to support or 

 have withdrawn support for the 

 reregistration of their 

 product(s). Because of the pos- 

 sible ettects ot cancellation, 

 particularly on minor users, the 

 Agency is allowing 90 days for 

 existing registrants, users or oth- 

 ers ati'ected by the loss of these 

 products tt) commit to support 

 the regulatory, scientific and tec 

 requirements to maintain con- 

 tinued registration and use of 

 the product (s). Today's notice 

 includes 164 active active ingre- 



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 Welcome 



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dients from list C, nine from list 

 B and 185 from list D. The im- 

 pact of removing one-third of 

 the 173 active ingredients in list 

 B and list C is not expected to 

 be significant because there iire 

 not registered products contain- 

 ing these ingredients. Of the 

 remaining two-thirds, most had 

 annual production of less than 

 100,000 pounds, a few had pro- 

 duction between 100,000 and 

 one million and one had pro- 

 duction of over one million. Of 

 the 185 active ingredients in list 

 D, 116 no longer are contained 

 in any currently registered prod- 

 uct and of the remaining 69, 

 most had reported annual pro- 

 duction of less than 100,000 

 pounds. Fi\-e reponed produc- 

 tion greater than one million 

 pounds. To cushion the impact 

 ot cancellation actions on users 

 and to provide time to seek al- 

 ternative pesticides, products 

 being cancelled generally will be 

 permitted to be sold by the reg- 

 istrant for six months after the 

 cancellation becomes effective. 

 Existing stocks- in the hands of 

 dealers and users generally can 

 be sold and used until the 

 stocks are exhausted. Today's 

 actions appeared in the Federal 

 Register Oct. 4. To report com- 

 mitments to support reregi- 

 stration oi an active ingredient, 

 contact Virginia Dietrich, Office 

 of Pesticide Programs (H7508C), 

 U.S. EPA, 401 M St. S.W., 

 Washington, D.C. 20460, or Al 

 Heier, (202) 260-4374. 



December 1991 / j a k u a r y 1992 3 



