The following request for information on chloroneb seed treatment uses on cotton and soybeans. Please circulate this request to the experts in your respective states/territories and submit any responses to the Southern Region IPM Center Information Request Monitoring System by July 13, 2005.

Thanks.

Darrell Hensley

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Your feedback is requested specifically for the use of chloroneb as a seed
treatment for cotton and soybeans. We'd like the information by July 13,
if at all possible. USDA is meeting with the registrant and EPA on July
14. But if a response by July 13 is not possible, we would like feedback
by July 21 (the public comment period closes on July 25).

Thank you for your responses to our March 2005 questionnaire. The
registrant is seeking to defend the cotton seed, soybean seed and golf
course (no info needed for golf course) uses.

COTTON

We believe most of the chloroneb used for treating cottonseed is done in
California and the Southwest where stripper cotton is grown; that chloroneb
is not being used on picker cotton which is grown in Texas; that picker
cotton gin by-products are fed to cattle but not stripper cotton gin
by-products.

Your feedback will help refine EPA's risk assessment which assumes 100% of
cotton seed is treated with chloroneb and 20% of gin-trash is being fed to
cattle (resulting in possible residues in meat and milk). A Texas A&M
study concluded that gin trash is not being fed to dairy cattle. The
National Cotton Council would like to see chloroneb retained as a seed
treatment.

(1) What percent of cotton seed in your IPM region (Southern Region,
Western Region) is treated with chloroneb? Also, please identify the
region : Southern Region [TX, OK, AR, LA, AL, MS, TN, KY, VA, NC, SC, GA,
FL) or Western Region [AK, AZ, CA, ID, NV, NM].

(2a) What percentage of the chloroneb-treated cotton seed is stripper
cotton?
(2b) Are the stripper cotton gin by-products from seed treated with
chloroneb being fed to cattle?

(3a) What percentage of the chloroneb treated cotton seed is picker cotton?

(3b) Are the picker cotton gin by-products from seed treated with chloroneb
being fed to cattle?


SOYBEANS

(1) What percentage of soybean seeds in your IPM region are treated with
chloroneb? Also, please identify the region: Northeast Region, NorthCentral
Region, Southern Region, Western Region.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/about.cfm

(1a) What percentage of soybean by-products are fed to livestock?
(1b) What percentage of soybeans by-products from soybean seeds treated
with chloroneb are fed to livestock?




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Chloroneb Risk Assessment; Related Document, and Input on Risk
Management; Notice of Availability

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-10576.htm

http://docket.epa.gov/edkpub/do/EDKStaffCollectionDetailView?objectId=0b0007d48047229e


Please respond online using the following URL
<a href = "http://www.sripmc.org/requests/Answer.cfm?RID=131">
http://www.sripmc.org/requests/answer.cfm?RID=131
</a>

Please respond even if the requested action does not impact your state(s).