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Maine Board of Pesticides Control

August 2008 Board Meeting

Agenda (complete) [PDF or RTF]
Agenda (condensed) with Links to Supporting Documents
- 1. Introductions of Board and Staff
- 2. Minutes of the June 13, 2008, Board Meeting [PDF or RTF]
- 3. Introduction of Tamas Peredy, Director of the Northern New England Poison Center
- 4. Revisions to the Board Policy for the Medical Advisory Committee
  - Draft revised MAC policy [PDF or RTF]
- 5. DuPont Request for 24(c) Registration for DuPontTM Express® Herbicide with TotalSol for Control of Bunchberry in Lowbush Blueberries
  - 24(c) registration materials [PDF]
    - Revised label [PDF]
  - Comments received [PDF]
- 6. Discussion of Board Process for Reviewing Monsanto Company’s Registration Request for MON 89034 and MON 89034 x MON 88017
  - Monsanto registration materials [PDF]
- 7. Continued Discussion About Approaches to Address Public Concerns About Aerial Spraying
  - Memo from staff [PDF or RTF]
  - Comments received [PDF]
- 8. Consideration of Staff Negotiated Consent Agreement with Vaughn Rasartaff [PDF]
- 9. Update on the Agricultural Health Study
  - Presentation by Lebelle Hicks [PDF or PPT (PowerPoint)]
- 10. Other Old or New Business
  - a. Additional Variance Requests Approved for Chapters 22 and/or 29—H. Jennings
    - Variance requests [PDF]
  - b. Slide Show on the Back Cove Project—G. Fish
  - c. Letter to Nancy Oden—H. Jennings [PDF or RTF]
  - d. Other?
    - New correspondence regarding pesticide applications at Lincolnville condominiums [PDF]
- 11. Schedule and Location of Future Meetings
- 12. Adjourn
- Miscellaneous Articles [PDF]

NOTES
- The Board Meeting Agenda and most supporting documents are posted one week before the meeting on the Board website at www.thinkfirstspraylast.org.
- Any person wishing to receive notices and agendas for meetings of the Board, Medical Advisory Committee, or Environmental Risk Advisory Committee must submit a request in writing to the Board's office. Any person with technical expertise who would like to volunteer for service on either committee is invited to submit their resume for future consideration.
- NEW! On November 16, 2007, the Board adopted the following policy for submission and distribution of comments and information when conducting routine business (product registration, variances, enforcement actions, etc.):
  - For regular, non-rulemaking business, the Board will accept pesticide-related letters, reports, and articles. Reports and articles must be from peer-reviewed journals. E-mail, hard copy, or fax should be sent to the attention of Paul Schlein, Public Information Officer, at the Board's office. In order for the Board to receive this information in time for distribution and consideration at its next meeting, all communications must be received by 8:00 am, three days prior to the Board meeting date (e.g., if the meeting is on a Friday, the deadline would be Tuesday at 8:00 am ). Any information received after the deadline will be held over for the next meeting.
- During rulemaking, when proposing new or amending old regulations, the Board is subject to the requirements of the APA (Administrative Procedures Act), and comments must be taken according to the rules established by the Legislature.

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