Without some statutory restraints, an administrator may be tempted to bypass the tedious route of scientific evaluation when public opinion becomes aroused. Such swift reaction can be politically expedient, but it can hardly serve the public interest. A TV newscast, or even a public hearing is not the place to make a scientific judgment. Certainly, the American public is entitled to a clean and healthy environment. No person of goodwill would question that. But the American public is also entitled to share in a strong farm economy that is free to produce abundant crops of a high quality, and that the consumer can buy at a reasonable price. To saddle agriculture with a piece of legislation completely devoid of limitations would be a gross injustice to people who deserve better than this from their Government. We certainly appreciate your staying so late and hearing us, Senator. Senator ALLEN. Where are your suggested amendments, Mr. Copeland? Mr. COPELAND. We have one there for you. And what we have done is gone through the bill and marked it up. Now, there is an appendix to the bill explaining the reasons for our suggested changes. The benefit-risk is written as a separate situa tion on page 47. Then here is our advisory committee rider. As these attachments explain, we have cross-referenced the bill but we did not have time to prepare a new one on S. 745, as we understand it to be identical to H.R. 4152. We would be glad to write up S. 745 in the same fashion if you so desire. Senator ALLEN. That will not be necessary. This can be inserted, then. We will include it in the record at this point. Mr. COPELAND. Thank you, Senator. (The document referred to follows:) 92D CONGRESS 18T SESSION H. R. 4152 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 10, 1971 Mr. POAGE (for himself and Mr. BELCHER) (by request) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To protect the public health and welfare and the environment through improved regulation of pesticides, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 4 TITLE AND FINDINGS This Act may be cited as the "Federal Environmental 5 Pesticide Control Act of 1971". essential 6 The Congress hereby finds that pesticides are valuable of food, fiber and tobacco to our Nation's agricultural production, and to the protec 7 8 tior of man and the environment from insects, rodents, I 1 2 1 1 weeds, and other forms of life which may be pests; but it food and tobacco and tobacco 9 effects of pesticide residues on food, which is consumed 10 throughout the Nation and which moves in interstate or 11 12 foreign commerce; and that regulation by the Administra tor and cooperation by the States and other jurisdictions as 13 contemplated by this Act are appropriate to prevent and 14 eliminate burdens upon interstate or foreign commerce, to 15 effectively regulate such commerce, and to protect the public to prevent substantially adverse effects 16 health and welfare and the environment. ለ on DEFINITIONS SEC. 2. For the purposes of this Act (a) The term "pesticide" means (1) any substance or repelling, or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, 3 1 declare to be a pest, and (2) any substance or mixture of 2 substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or 3 desiccant. 4 (b) The term "device" means any instrument or con5 trivance intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or 6 mitigating insects, birds, predators, or rodents or destroying, 7 repelling, or mitigating fungi, nematodes, or such other pests 8 as may be designated by the Administrator, but not includ9 ing equipment used for the application of pesticides when 10 sold separately therefrom. 11 (c) The term "plant regulator" means any substance 12 or mixture of substances, intended through physiological 13 14 15 action, for accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or for otherwise altering the behavior of plants or the produce thereof, but shall not include sub 16 stances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, 17 trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, and 18 soil amendments. (d) The term "defoliant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission. (e) The term "desiccant" means any substance or mix ture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue. 4 1 2 2 (f) The term "environment" includes water, air, land, (not including man) all plants and animals living therein, and the interrelation 3 ships which exist among these. 4 (g) The "animal" means all vertebrate and invertebrate 5 species, including but not limited to man and other mammals, 6 birds, fish, and shellfish. 7 (h) The term "nematode" means invertebrate animals 8 of the phylum nemathelminthes and class nematoda, that 9 is, unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or 10 saclike bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, 11 plants or plant parts; may also be called nemas or eelworms. (i) The term "weed" means any plant which grows 13 where not wanted. 12 34 14 (j) The term "insect" means any of the numerous small 15 invertebrate animals generally having the body more or less 16 obviously segmented, for the most part belonging to the class 17 18 insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, as, for example, beetles, bugs, bees, flies, and to other allied classes 19 of arthropods whose members are wingless and usually have more than six legs, as, for example, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice. (k) The term "fungi" means all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallophytes (that is, all non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, yeasts, and bacteria, except |