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Maine Board of Pesticides Control

September 7, 2012, Board Meeting

IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOTE NEW MEETING LOCATION AND EARLIER TIME

Augusta: AMHI Complex, 90 Blossom Lane, Deering Building, Room 233—Show Map
Time: 8:30 am

Aenda (complete) [PDF or Word]
Agenda (condensed) with Links to Supporting Documents
- 1. Introductions of Board and Staff
- 2. Public Hearing on the Proposed Repeal of Chapter 21 and Amendments to Chapters 10, 27, and 50
  - Chapter 10 [PDF or Word]
  - Chapter 21 [PDF or Word]
  - Chapter 27 [PDF or Word]
  - Chapter 50 [PDF or Word]
- 3. Minutes of the July 27, 2012, Board Meeting [PDF or Word]
- 4. Reconsideration of a Consent Agreement with Purely Organic Lawn Care, Inc., of York Harbor
  - Purely Organic Consent Agreement [PDF]
  - Agreement for the Conditional Issuance of a Spray Contracting Firm License [PDF or Word]
  - Letter to "sports turf customers" from Purely Organic [PDF]
- 5. Consideration of a Chapter 29 Variance Permit Request from Vegetation Control Services, Inc., to Control Woody Brush in Wetland Areas of the Transmission Line Connecting the Kibby Wind Power Project in Northwestern Maine [PDF]
  - Chapter 29 [PDFor Word]
- 6. Consideration of a Consent Agreement with Woodford Street Apartments, LLC, of Cape Elizabeth [PDF]
- 7. Consideration of a Consent Agreement with Paul’s Lawn Care, Inc., of Biddeford [PDF]
- 8. Update on Arbovirus Monitoring Activities
  - Guidelines for Phased Response to WNV and EEE Surveillance Data (from the State of Maine Arboviral (Mosquito-borne) Illness Surveillance, Prevention and Response Plan—2012 Season) [PDF]
  - PubMed–Google-Scholar WNV/EEE Mosquito Control Efficacy Abstracts [PDF or Word]
- 9. Discussion of Potential Emergency Rulemaking to Facilitate Municipal Mosquito Control Programs
  - Chapter 20 [PDF or Word]
  - Letter from Dr. Stephen Sears, Maine State Epidemiologist, Regarding Potential Easing of Pesticide Restrictions in Public Health Emergencies [PDF]
  - Emergency Rulemaking Final Documents
    - Chapter 20—Special Provisions, Amended [PDF or Word]
    - Basis Statement for Adoption of an Amendment to Chapter 20 [PDF or Word]
    - Rulemaking Statement of Impact on Small Business [PDF or Word]
- 10. Variance Request from Chapter 29 to Control Common Reed (Phragmites australis) along Forested Roadsides in Northern Maine
  - Variance Request [PDF]
  - Maps of areas to receive pesticide treatments
    - Millinocket [PDF]
    - Telos [PDF]
  - Chapter 29 [PDFor Word]
- 11. Other Old or New Business
  - a, Revised Interim Guidelines for Forest Pesticides Applications—H. Jennings [PDF or Word]
  - b. Request for pesticide notification registry for beekeepers—H. Jennings [PDF]
  - c. Other?
    - Final Document Relating to FIFRA Section 18 Crisis Exemption for Use of Gowan Malathion 8 Flowable on Lowbush and Highbush Blueberries to Control Spotted Wing Drosophilia [PDF]
- 12. Schedule of Future Meetings
- 13. Adjourn
- Miscellaneous Pesticide Articles, Studies, and Correspondence, July–August 2012 [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.
- Board policy for submission of comments and information: 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 Education Specialist, 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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