Attached is a rather large Excel file (Copper Master Label Data.xls) for providing usage information for copper pesticides. The Copper Sulfate Task Force needs to know the IMPORTANT uses of copper and MINIMUM/MAXIMUN/MOST COMMON USAGE RATES. Copper is registered for a huge number of crops/sites, so the Task Force is attempting to narrow down the important uses and rates. NOTE that EVERY blank in the Excel file does not need to be completed, JUST the blanks for those crops in your state for which copper pesticides are still important!
Please forward this request to experts in your respective states/territories and submit their responses directly to me (dhensley@utk.edu) or Steve Toth at NCSU (Steve_Toth@ncsu.edu) within two weeks (by December 5, 2005). Just have your experts enter information on the Excel file and send me the Excel files (note the names and affliations of the experts submitting the information).
Thanks.
Darrell Hensley
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: FW: On going copper information gathering process
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:26:25 -0500
From: Ron Landis <rlandis@landisintl.com>
Reply-To: <rlandis@landisintl.com>
Organization: Landis International
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have just received a message from the EPA which stated that unless we are
able to provide the use information to them prior to their planned issuance
of Phase III of the RED process in January, they will be going forward with
the current risk assessments. I realize that this is a difficult time of
year to be taking on an additional task, but if you have information which
will help us accurately fill out the table, I urge you to reply as soon as
possible. The Agency has the authority to cancel uses we cannot support.
Please pass this on to those you know should receive it but are not on the
list.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Rogers [TROGERS@ars.usda.gov]
Subject: On going copper information gathering process
Greetings,
We had our first users group call on the coppers on October 24; we have
tried to set up a reasonable process so that you the users can maintain a
dialogue with the Copper Sulfate Task Force (CSTF). I will be out of the
office on medical leave from mid November till mid January.
Ron Landis, 229-247-6472, rlandis@landisintl.com is your contact with the
CSTF. In conversation with Ron after the call we realized that the most
dependable and efficient way to transfer your contact information to him was
simply that each of you send him an email with your email address, phone
number and affiliation. This will enable him to build a list that will
reside with CSTF. Ron will also have access to the Office of Pest
Management Policy staff if he needs one of my colleagues to host another
conference call.
On the call we discussed the possibility of using crop classes to produce
the master labels that Ron is contemplating as a route to standardize
application rates and frequency for the various copper molecules and
formulations. The label derived classes are listed in the attached Excel
file. I will also resend the previous analysis of the EPA risk assessment of
copper and the Excel spread sheet that gives the format that the CSTF will
use as it gathers use pattern information. Ron supplied these before the
last call. Distributing them again will assure that those new to the list
will have them and that the rest of you do not have to rifle through your
email files to find them.
We had a good start on October 24, some of you have already sent me
preliminary use pattern information and I have forwarded it on to Ron. The
process is underway keep the dialogue going and the information flowing.
Ted Rogers
Biologist, Senior Policy Analyst
USDA Office of Pest Management Policy
202-720-3846
trogers@ars.usda.gov
http://www.ars.usda.gov/opmp/
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CropClasses.xls, USDAMemo.pdf, CopperMasterLabelData.xls | 
