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12345678910111213141516171819202122Transcript of United States Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of Pesticide ProgramsPesticide Program Dialogue Committee MeetingMay 1112, 2005
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PROCEEDINGSDay OneMay 11, 2005
JIM JONES: Good morning everyone. Welcome tothe National Press Club. I'm very excited about beinghere. Not just because it's the National Press Club butbecause I'm with all of you as well. This is thePesticide Program Dialogue Committee and the first orderof business other than introducing myself, Jim Jones,Director of the Office of Pesticide Programs is tointroduce my boss, Susan Hazen, who for the last twoyears has been in the very challenging role of being the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office ofPrevention Pesticides and Toxic Substances, OPPTS, andwe're fortunate to have Susan here this morning to giveus some opening remarks.SUSAN HAZEN: Thanks Jim. Thanks very much. First of all I want to welcome you all here toWashington. Some of you are clearly all that familiarwith Washington. Others are not. I'd like to thankMargie. Where is Margie? Margie Fehrenbach for findingthis incredibly nice venue. This is a very hard place to
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123456789101112131415161718192021223get, so, I don't know how, I don't want to know how. Butthank you. It will make for a very nice meeting. Youmight see some interesting people in the hallways as theday goes on. As I say, thank you very much for taking timeout of your schedules to not only come to this meeting,but to be active members of this committee. I've workedwith this committee in various ways over the course ofthe past five years, when I was directly in thePesticides Program, and I have always found it to be oneof the most active and effective committees that we havein the Pesticides Program, which is not to say that ourother committees aren't good. I don't want that word togo out of here. But I've always seen this committee assort of the rollupyoursleeves, let's tackle the realissues. Let's not talk sort of philosophically or youknow in the abstract. But I've always seen thiscommittee as a group of folks who tackle the real worldsort of daytoday problems. And in doing that, I havejust seen tremendous progress in moving us forward onsome very controversial and critical issues. So the goodnews is that I think you have helped EPA and helped the
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