APS Responses to Policy Issues

2008

• Letter to Honorable Herb Kohl and Robert Bennett Chairman and Ranking Member Subcommittee on Agriculture Appropriations, U.S. Senate, in support of Integrated Pest Management Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (ipmPIPE), May 1, 2008

2007

• Letter to Acting USDA Secretary Connor and Under Secretary Buchanan requesting funding for the Agricultural Chemical Usage Surveys conducted by the National Agriculture Statistical Survey be reinstated in the budget, December 19, 2007

2006

• Letter to President Bush regarding the American Competitiveness Initiative, signed by APS as part of the Innovation & Competitiveness Coalition, May 5, 2006
• Letter to Congressman Gordon urging balanced research portfolio in all fields of science and engineering research; signed by APS and 41 other related scientific societies, February 28, 2006

2005

• Statement to Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel of the Environmental Protection Agency
• CSREES Stakeholder Meeting Report
• PPB worked with CoFARM on letter of thanks for NRI funding
• PPB worked with CoFARM on letter of support for NIFA
• PPB worked with CoFARM on congressional visits day ag priorities

2004

• Statement to the National Academy on appointments to Federal scientific advisory boards
• Senate Ag Appropriations Committee NRI Funding Request

• USDA APHIS-PPQ Stakeholder Meeting Report

2003

• Office of Management and Budget Proposed Bulletin on Peer Review and Information Quality under Executive Order 12866 and supplemental information quality guidelines [FR Doc. 03-23367] 68 FR 54023, September 2003
• APS Comments on Plant Virus Collection, December 2003
• APS Comments on CSREES/USDA Soil Ecology Program, November 2003
• APS Comments on International Plant Protection Convention Draft Standard on the Plant Pest Risks Associated with Living Modified Organisms Pesticides, September 2003
• APS Comments on Guidelines for Regulating Wood Packaging Material in International Trade, July 2003
• APS Comments on EPA Pesticides; Emergency Exemption Process Revisions Pilot, June 2003
• APS comments on FDA draft document regarding Bioengineered Plant Pharmaceuticals, January 2003

2002

• APS Comments on NIH Study Sections, November 2002
• APS Comments on Proposed Federal Actions Regarding the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002, October 2002
• APS Comments to OSTP Regarding Federal Actions to Update Field Test Requirements, August 2002
• APS Comments regarding the proposed transfer of APHIS from the USDA to the proposed new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), July 2002
• EPA Data Quality Act Letter, June 2002
• Kraft letter, April 2002
• Supermarket letter, March 2002
• Thank You for Joint USDA-NSF Microbial Genome Sequencing Program Funding, February 2002

2001

• Letter to Senator Feinstein Regarding Anti-Bioterroism Legislation Requiring Registration of Laboratories that Contain Mycotoxins, December 2001
• Plant Pest Regulations; Update of Current Provisions, Comments on Proposed Rule, December 2001
• Competitive Funding for Agricultural Research in the USA, PPB Comments to USDA Undersecretary Joseph Jen, September 2001
• Anti-Evolution Amendment: Comments on Section 1022 from the Senate passed version of H.R.1)
• Plant-Incorporated Protectants comments to EPA 
  Sept. 18, 2001
• FY2002 Letter NRI August 22, 2001
• FY2002 Letter NRI June 25, 2001
• Bill HR64 letter June 6, 2001
• Draft Consent Decree May 15, 2001
• Case studies Fed Reg Response April 30, 2001
• PPB comments RSPA-98-3971 April 26, 2001
• FDA letter Docket 00D-1598 March 13, 2001
• FDA letter Docket 00N-1396 March 14, 2001
• Hardy-USDA Letter February 28, 2001
• Statement of the American Phytopathological Society Submitted to the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, And Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate, 4/23/01
• Statement of The American Society of Plant Physiologists, The National Corn Growers Association and The American Phytopathological Society before the Subcommittee On Energy And Water Development Committee On Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives Relating To The Fiscal Year 2002 Appropriations for the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Energy Biosciences Program, 4/9/01

1996-2000

• Plant-Incorporated Protectant Issue
  Testimony of a Consortium of 11 Scientific Societies before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on VA-HUD and Independent Agencies 3/99
  Testimony of a Consortium of 11 Scientific Societies before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on VA-HUD and Independent Agencies, April 21, 1998. Jerome B. Siebert's statement regarding the labeling of plant substances and plant genetic materials used in plant defense as "pesticides." 
  Appropriate Oversight for Plants with Inherited Traits for Resistance to Pests: A Report from 11 Scientific Societies, 7/96

• Comments to the USDA on the Proposed National Organic Program and NPPB Analysis of the Proposal.
• Letter from President Campbell to the EPA on field testing of microbial pesticides.