National Academy of Sciences is finally reviewing LBAM reclassification, though it looks like they may only be reviewing the "response" by USDA-APHIS to the petition, but not the petition itself.
Below are the details about the project, followed by the list of people to be on the review committee (for which there are 12 days left to give feedback), followed by information about their second meeting on July 23. The first meeting was apparently yesterday, July 9. Feedback on the project itself is open for the duration of the review, which is supposed to continue for 3 months.
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http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/ProjectView.aspx?key=DELS-BANR-09-01
Project Information
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Project Title:
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Review
of U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) Response to Petitions to Reclassify the Light-Brown
Apple Moth as a Non-Actionable Pest
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PIN:
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DELS-BANR-09-01
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Major Unit:
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
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RSO:
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Laney, Kara N.
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Agriculture; Biology and Life Sciences; Environment and Environmental Studies
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Project Scope
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To
evaluate the ability of policy and regulatory decisions to be supported
by sound, scientific evidence and effectively communicated in a
transparent fashion, an NRC committee will examine the scientific bases
of two competing opinions about the classification of the Light-Brown
Apple Moth (LBAM) as an actionable pest, based on petitions from
various parties in California to reclassify the pest, and on federal
documents that justify and defend the rationale for the current pest
classification. The committee will focus on the comprehensiveness and
credibility of the federal justification in light of arguments to the
contrary. The committee will prepare a letter report evaluating whether
the justification:
-- fully considers and addresses the specific arguments for
reclassification raised in the petitions and their accompanying
documentation; and
--clearly articulates a thorough and balanced analysis that justifies
and adequately supports its conclusions in response to the petition.
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Project Duration:
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3 months
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http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=49107
Committee Membership Information
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Project Title:
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Review
of U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) Response to Petitions to Reclassify the Light-Brown
Apple Moth as a Non-Actionable Pest
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PIN:
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DELS-BANR-09-01
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Major Unit:
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
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RSO:
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Laney, Kara N.
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Agriculture; Biology and Life Sciences; Environment and Environmental Studies
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Committee Membership
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Date Posted:
07/02/2009
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Dr. May R. Berenbaum - (Chair)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr.
Berenbaum has made major contributions to understanding the role of
chemistry in interactions between plants and herbivorous insects. She
has identified key plant defensive chemicals and determined their modes
of action. Her investigations have encompassed both proximate
physiological mechanisms and their evolutionary consequences for both
plants and insects. Her research interests include chemical ecology,
insect/plant interactions, systematics and evolutionary biology of
Lepidoptera and other phytophagous insects, xenobiotic metabolism
(cytochrome P450), and photobiology (furanocoumarins, furanoquinoline
alkaloids, and other natural photosensitizers). Dr. Berenbaum currently
serves on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Editorial
Board; the Division on Earth and Life Studies Division Committee; and
is a National Academy of Science member. She has served on numerous
boards and committees, including Chair, Board on Agriculture and
Natural Resources. She is widely honored with distictions including the
Robert H. MacArthur Award, Ecological Society of America; the
Entomological Society of America Distinguished Teaching Award; and
Royal Entomological Society “Best Paper 2006–2007” award for a
co-authored article in Insect Molecular Biology. Dr. Berenbaum earned
her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University.
Mr. Thomas E. Bundy
U.S. Department of Agriculture [Retired]
Mr.
Bundy has over 31 years experience as an attorney with the Office of
the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). He
was a Deputy Assistant General Counsel who supervised legal work for
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, including the control
and eradication of plant and animal diseases and pests. He was
instrumental in the drafting and passage of the Plant Protection Act
and the Animal Health Protection Act, and is very knowledgeable
concerning USDA's animal and plant quarantine authorities and their
application, both domestically and internationally. He has instructed
APHIS employees on how to implement and enforce those authorities. He
received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Dr. Sean B. Cash
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr.
Cash is Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin’s Department
of Consumer Science and is currently on leave from his position as
Associate Professor for the Department of Rural Economy at University
of Alberta. His M.S and Ph.D. are in Agricultural and Resource
Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Cash
conducts research in the areas of environmental regulation and resource
conservation, including the management invasive species across
international borders, ecosystem management of forests, and the
indirect effects of pesticide regulation. He also focuses on how food
and nutrition policies affect consumers. Current and recent projects in
this area include the use of food price interventions to address public
health concerns; the role of agricultural policies on nutrition; the
relationship between food security and obesity; and how consumers value
social aspects of food relative to other attributes. He serves on the
executive committees of the Food Safety and Nutrition Section of the
American Agricultural Economics Association, and recently served on the
boards of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, the Alberta
Agricultural Economics Association, and Growing Food Security in
Alberta.
Dr. Rachael E. Goodhue
University of California, Davis
Dr.
Goodhue’s work has a strong public policy focus, and her research is
concentrated in two areas: the industrial organization of agriculture,
particularly agricultural contracts; and agri-environmental policy,
particularly pesticide regulation and the economics of invasive
species. In addition, Dr. Goodhue analyzes the economic impact of
pesticide use regulations. Her interests include property rights and
institutions governing natural resource use, including impacts of
property rights design for pastoralist systems in sub-Saharan Africa,
and negotiations over water rights and use in California and France.
Dr. Goodhue has served on a variety of panels and editorial boards
including the Associate Editor, Agricultural Economic, 2007–2009;
Editorial Council, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
2006; African Journal of Agricultural Economics; and Program of
Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management, U.S.
Department of Agriculture-ERS. She is further recognized with the Duke
University Talent Identification Program Distinguished Alumni
Career/Professional Award, 2005; and the American Agricultural
Economics Association Dissertation Awards Subcommittee chair, 2007 and
2008. Dr. Goodhue holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics
from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Vincent P. Jones
Washington State University
Dr.
Jones is the head of the Insect Ecology and Behavior Laboratory,
located at the Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, Washington
State University. His background and experience involve the use of
various aspects of population biology, ecology, and insect behavior to
improve integrated pest management (IPM) of insects and mites. Dr.
Jones seeks to improve IPM programs by developing much of the basis of
management systems (e.g., sampling/monitoring systems for key pests,
phenology models, basic information on life history and population
demography, dispersal). His current projects are focused on improving
biological control in tree fruit orchards. Towards this end, Dr. Jones
directs a recently funded Cooperative States Research Education and
Extension Service (CSREES), U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty
Crops Research Initiative Grant with 9 others from California, Oregon
and Washington. In addition to active research, Dr. Jones has developed
an outreach program based on emerging knowledge on IPM for the WSU
Decision Aid System that help growers and fieldmen optimize their pest
management strategies. Dr. Jones is an accomplished scientist with over
80 refereed articles and book chapters. His professional service
includes: Reviewer (1999–2005) and President (2006, USDA National
Research Initiative; and President-Elect Western Orchard Pest and
Disease Management Conference (2005). He holds a Ph.D. in Entomology
from the University of California at Riverside.
Dr. Nicholas J. Mills
University of California, Berkeley
Dr.
Mills’ research focuses on biological control of insect pests and the
ecology of insect parasitism and predation. He is currently working on
a classical biological control program for the Light Brown Apple Moth
in California. The major emphases in his work involve addressing the
determinants of success in classical biological control and the
augmentation of natural enemy populations. His research interests
includes a variety of aspects of natural enemy biology, from behavior
and evolutionary biology to population and community ecology through
observational, experimental, and comparative analysis. Dr. Mills has
been awarded the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Distinguished Service Award, Outstanding Faculty, 1997; and the College
of Natural Resources Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002. Dr. Mills
publishes peer-reviewed articles regularly with well over 100 articles
and is highly cited. Dr. Mills holds a Ph.D. in Population Ecology from
the University of East Anglia, UK.
Dr. L. Joe Moffitt
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Professor
Moffit’s research is on the economics of crop protection with
particular emphasis on new technology and biosecurity. He lectures on
quantitative methods in resource economics, and is especially
interested in applications of economics to biology-based crop
protection and in applications of biology-based quantitative methods to
economics and econometrics. He has written 25 extension reports and
over 50 research publications. His service and outreach activities
include advising agricultural agencies about the economics of crop
protection programs and chairing the Herbert L. Forest Scholarship
Committee. He is a member of the American Agricultural Economics
Association, the American Economic Association, and the Northeastern
Agricultural and Resource Economics Association. Dr. Moffitt has also
served as a member on the NRC Committee on California Agricultural
Research Priorities: Pierce's Disease. Dr. Moffitt received his Ph.D.
in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Dr. Jerry A. Powell
University of California, Berkeley
Dr.
Powell is Director Emeritus of the Essig Museum of Entomology, and
Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of
California-Berkeley. The principal theme of Dr. Powell’s research has
been to discover and correlate biological features with traditional
morphological evidence in the development of biosystematic
relationships of small moths, particularly tortricids. His research has
served to develop comprehensive local inventories of the species, to
provide means for estimating species’ diversity in North Temperate Zone
lepidopterous, and to analyze larval-host plant relationships of the
Lepidoptera communities. Dr. Powell has published extensively on the
biodiversity, evolution, and field behavior of Lepidoptera. He has also
served as President of the Society of Systematic Zoology, and of the
Lepidopterists’ Society. He received his Ph.D. in entomology from the
University of California-Berkeley.
Dr. Daniel S. Simberloff
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Dr.
Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies
at the University of Tennessee and past president of the American
Society of Naturalists. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in
1964 and his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1968. His 350
publications center on ecology, biogeography, evolution, and
biometrics, and they often relate to the causes and consequences of
species associating with one another in communities. Much of his
research for the last 20 years has focused on conservation issues, such
as reserve design, the consequences of fragmentation and habitat
destruction, and the impacts and management of introduced species. His
research projects involve insects, plants, birds, and mammals. He
directs the University of Tennessee Institute for Biological Invasions.
He was instrumental in formulating the presidential Executive Order
13112 on invasive species, and serves on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Invasive Species Specialist Group and the
IUCN Species Survival Commission. Dr. Simberloff is the recipient of
numerous awards, including the Ecological Society of America's Eminent
Ecologist Award. Among his many professional activities, he served as
Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and
Systematics (2001–present), and as a member of the National Science
Board (2000–2006), the National Marine Fisheries Service Recovery
Science Review Panel (2004–2006), the Editorial Board of BioScience
(1994–present), and the Editorial Board of Biological Invasions
(1999–present). Dr. Simberloff has served on previous committees and
was a member of the Board on Life Sciences.
Dr. Robert C. Venette
University of Minnesota, St. Paul
Dr.
Venette’s research focuses on the invasion biology and population
ecology of exotic species. His studies revolve around three basic
questions: Which species are likely to become established? Where will
they occur? How will they affect agro-ecosyems? Currently, Dr. Venette
is interested in statistical methods to quantify risks associated with
pink bollworm on cotton; geographic information systems to monitor and
predict spread of alfalfa blotch leafminer on alfalfa; monitoring
strategies to detect small populations of Bt-resistant European corn
borer in transgenic Bt corn; modelling pest population dynamics; risk
assessment approaches for exotic plant-parasitic nematodes; and soil
processes that contribute to sustainable agriculture. His risk
assessments have contributed to pest management policies at the local
and national level. Dr. Venette received a Ph.D. in Ecology from the
University of University of California, Davis.
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http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/meetingview.aspx?MeetingID=3617&MeetingNo=2
Meeting Information
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Project Title:
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Review
of U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) Response to Petitions to Reclassify the Light-Brown
Apple Moth as a Non-Actionable Pest
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DELS-BANR-09-01
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Major Unit:
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
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RSO:
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Laney, Kara N.
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Agriculture; Biology and Life Sciences; Environment and Environmental Studies
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Review
of U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) Response to Petitions to Reclassify the Light-Brown
Apple Moth as a Non-Actionable Pest
July 23, 2009 - July 24, 2009
Keck Center
500 5th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001
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If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:
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Karen Imhof
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kimhof@...
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202-334-3507
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202-334-1978
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