IR-4 Headquarters Update

Van Starner – Assistant Director, Research Planning(w/Jerry Baron & Dan Kunkel)

(IR-4 Western Region 2013 SLR/CLC Meeting - 3/26-27/2013, Santa Cruz, CA)

HQ Update Outline

2012/2013 Deliverables• Food Crop Program – YES/Annual Report (http://ir4.rutgers.edu/)

• Facilitating Registrations - 2012• 266 new tolerances• 1087 new clearances (= potential new use registrations;

60% on commercial labels by early Jan. 2013)• Submissions to EPA/Mfg will address ~160

PCRs (supporting registrations on 31 chemicals)• 80 new residue studies

• Facilitating Registrations – 2013 (thru early March)• ~50 new clearances approved (6 new tolerances)• ~360 clearances/70 tolerances in NOFs• <70 new residue studies (~500 US trials + ~50 in CN)

2012/2013 Deliverables• Food Crop Program

• Crop Grouping• Tree nut/Stone fruit group revisions

approved 8/2012 (total revised + new = 9)• Crop group 1 (root/tuber veggies) revision

proposal submitted to EPA 10/2012• Crop group 2 (leaves of root/tuber veggies) revision

proposal submitted to EPA 3/2013• HED analysis completed 3/2013 for Crop

groups 23/24 (tropical fruits edible/inedible peel)• Crop group 6 (legumes) - revision prepared/being debated

2012 Deliverables

• Food Crop Program• International

• Global Minor Use Summit II - Feb. 2012• Completed/submitted 2nd global residue

study – blueberry (part of first ever submission by Bayer for BYI-02960 [flupyradifurone])

• Codex MRL’s (submitted 73 data packages for 6 AI’s – to help reduce residues as trade barriers)

• Capacity building (SE Asia, Central/South America, Africa) – getting other countries involved in global studies

BYI 02960Blueberry Global Residue Project

• LOWBUSH Blueberry:– 3 trials in Nova Scotia (one decline)– 1 trial in Maine

• HIGHBUSH Blueberry:– 2 trials in New Jersey– 3 trials in Michigan (one decline)– 2 trials in North Carolina– 1 trial in Oregon– 1 trial in Quebec

• European trials– 1 trial in Spain - decline– 1 trial in Denmark– 2 trials in the U.K. – decline– 1 trial in Italy - decline– Note:2 trials using “protected” crop.

• Other sites (HIGHBUSH)– 3 trials in Australia– 2 trials in New Zealand– 3 trials in Chile (one decline)

Study conducted under one protocol (one GAP), IR-4 was the Sponsor and Study Director (K. Dorschner)

All samples were shipped to/analyzed by Bayer Crop Science Laboratory____________________________________________________________________

26 total field sites in 9 countries

enGLOBAL RESIDUE STUDYGLOBAL RESIDUE STUDY-Blueberry

Analysis Using the OECD MRL Calculator

NAFTA sites only13 field trials• Lowest residue 0.290 ppm• Highest residue 2.59 ppm• Median residue 0.834 ppm• Mean residue 0.912

ppm• SD 0.630• Unrounded MRL 3.431 ppm• Rounded MRL 4 ppm

Global data (all sites)26 field trials• Lowest residue 0.193 ppm• Highest residue 2.59 ppm• Median residue 0.867 ppm• Mean residue 0.974

ppm• SD 0.632• Unrounded MRL 3.504 ppm• Rounded MRL 4 ppm

2012 Deliverables

• Biopesticide and Organic Support Program• Funded 19 grant proposals (7 early, 7

advanced, 5 demonstration) • 12 additions of crops to biopesticide

labels (via reg. assistance and data submission)• Supported 26 bird repellency Sec. 18’s

• Avipel liquid for corn (10 states)• Avipel dry for corn (13 states)• AV-1011 for rice (FL, LA)• Avipel liquid for sunflower (SD)

2012 Deliverables

• Ornamental Horticulture Program

- IR-4 data supported 7 registrations/label amendments which expanded the use of pesticides on 644 species of non-food crops - 21 data summaries were written/submitted to registrants to expand future uses - $900K APHIS grant for invasive species research

2012 Deliverables• Public Health Pesticides

• Published a unique inventory of over 600 current/potential public health pesticides (includes regulatory status around the globe and efficacy in a range of uses)

• Continued efforts to secure from EPA removal of “drift to cropland” restriction on etofenprox mosquito adulticide label

• Initiated major review of volatile insect repellents/toxicants – to assist military, WHO, CDC, etc., in selection of area-wide vector control agents

• Working to ensure new data requirements don’t create major gaps in PHP toolbox

IR-4 Funding - 2012

Direct Contributions ~$19 million• USDA-NIFA $11,916,000• USDA-ARS $ 3,850,000• USDA-ARS/DoD $ 250,000• USDA-FAS (TASC Grant) $ 500,000• World Bank Funds $ ??• USDA-APHIS $ 900,000• State Ag. Exp. Stations $ 481,182• Donations from Industry $ 1,100,000

Indirect Contributions Valued at ~$19 million (1:1 with direct funding)

IR-4 Funding Future• Administration’s Proposal

– Consolidated Crop Protection Program - IR-4 w/IPM

• Stakeholder Response – Save IR-4 (http://www.saveir-4.org/)– Maintain a dedicated IR-4 Project with dedicated funding at

“functionally equivalent” levels

• Congress Response– Senate and House rejected USDA’s proposal for 2013; 2014?

• Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy (NIFA Director) - comments at IR-4 PMC/CLC mtg 3/12/13

Staffing Changes at HQ• Study Directors

– T. Switek moved on; C. Jolly on-board

• Plant Pathology– D. Thompson left early February (hole in pathology expertise)

• Quality Assurance– D. D’Angelo started mid-February– K. Hackett-Fields & B. Patel both to retire by May 1– New NE QA to be partially coordinated thru HQ– eQA launch – May?

• Rutgers significant fringe increase – impact?

FUW - 2013

The 2013 FUW:September 17-18: Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown,

2600 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM (http://www.sheratonalbuquerqueuptown.com/albuquerque-nm-hotel)

Info on website: (http://ir4.rutgers.edu/FoodUse/FUWorkshop/index.html)

For 2014 FUW: east coast (Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Portsmouth????)

Plans/deadlines for 2013 FUW

• Aug. 12 – EPA red/yellow/green lightproject assessment complete

• Aug. 14 – last day for receipt of newPCRs, for consideration at FUW

• Aug. 16-Sept. 4 – project nominations onthe IR-4 website (organized by discipline)

• Sept. 9 – project reports/spreadsheets forworkshop available on IR-4 website

“A” Priority Criteria

Criteria for a project gaining an “A” priority: - Availability and efficacy of alternative pest management tools

(including ongoing projects for the same need) - Pest damage potential of target pest(s) - Performance and crop safety of the chemical tool in managing

the target pest(s) - Compatibility of the proposed chemical candidate with Integrated

Pest Management - Uses currently covered by Section 18 emergency exemptions - Harmonization implications due to lack of Int’l MRLs - Capacity of IR-4 research resources

FUW to NRPM Schedule

• Aug. 15-Oct. 10 – PUPs accepted for new PCRs• Oct. 1 – 2014 tentative project list available for

on-line field/lab site entries• Oct. 10 – deadline for proposed upgrades/PUPs• Oct. 15 – HQ/RFC conf. call to confirm carryover

trials & upgraded additional priorities (regionaland PUPs) for 2014 research plan

• Oct. 28 – deadline for field/lab site assignments• Nov. 5-6 – NRPM at U.C. Davis

Public Interest FindingMarch 21, 2013

In This Update:• EPA Criteria for IR-4 Public Interest Finding Now Available on the Web• The EPA has posted the criteria that it will use in determining when a

pesticide registration application will be exempt from paying the registration service fee under the Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act (PRIA 3). Under PRIA 3, pesticide registration applications that are solely associated with a tolerance petition submitted in connection with the Interregional Research Project No. 4 and is in the public interest is exempt from registration service fees.

• Factors for IR-4 Public Interest Findings are available at: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/fees/questions/factors-for-public-interest-finding.pdf.

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Economic Impact of IR-4

• The Michigan State University Center for Economic Analysis (Dec. 2011) report

• For a combined total budget of ~$18 million, the IR-4 Project contributes– over $7.2 billion to annual US Gross Domestic

Product – support 104,650 jobs throughout the United

States.