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ROUNDUP READY SUGAR BEETS DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PUBLIC MEETING

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:07 p.m.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE BIOTECHNOLOGY REGULATORY SERVICES 4700 River Road Riverdale, Maryland 20737

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 2 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 MR. GEORGE: We're ready to start our 3 meeting. I want to thank everybody for being here 4 today. As part of the public participation process, 5 we're holding this public meeting to solicit your 6 comments on the draft Environmental Impact Statement 7 for H7-1 sugar beets, also known as 8 glyphosate-tolerant or Roundup Ready sugar beets. 9 My name is Dick George. I'm the 10 communications branch chief at Biotechnology 11 Regulatory Services, a part of APHIS, the Animal and 12 Plant Health Inspection Service, which, in turn, is 13 part of the USDA. Soliciting public comments is a 14 very important part of our process. We value your 15 input and are very glad and grateful that you've 16 taken the trouble to come here today and be part of 17 our process. 18 Also with me are Rebecca Stankiewicz-Gabel, 19 senior environmental protection specialist -- she'll 20 be working the mic in the middle of the room -- and 21 Neil Hoffman, science advisor to the Office of the 22 Deputy Administrator. Neil is signing people in at

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 3 1 the table in the back of the room. Neil and Rebecca 2 are project managers on this Environmental Impact 3 Statement. 4 Our purpose today is to take your comments 5 and to make them part of the public record. You can 6 also enter comments into the public record by going 7 to regulations.gov on the web and entering H7-1 sugar 8 beets in the search box. The public comment period 9 ends on December 13th. All public comments will be 10 considered before determination is made of the 11 regulatory status of Roundup Ready sugar beets. 12 On the table on the side of the room we've 13 placed some handouts, including an executive summary 14 of the draft EIS, fact sheets, and other background 15 information. There are also CDs of the draft EIS, 16 and you're welcome to take any of this material. A 17 draft EIS is also available on our website. 18 This is our third meeting that we've had. 19 Up until now, we've been providing our speakers with 20 five minutes. However, we're not going to be 21 enforcing that very strictly today as we don't have 22 that many speakers signed up. If you forgot to note

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 4 1 at sign-in that you would like to make a comment, 2 please do so. We will take speakers in the order in 3 which they have arrived and signed in. Rebecca will 4 be our timer. She'll let you know when your time is 5 up. And as I said, we won't be enforcing that 6 terribly strictly today. We appreciate everyone 7 being polite and offering comments in a civil way. 8 We will end our meeting by 7:00 p.m. 9 tonight. When your name is called, please come to 10 the microphone in the center of the room. Please 11 begin by stating and spelling your name for our court 12 reporter who's over here, LaQuicia Thomas. Please 13 say your name and spell your name so that she can get 14 it right on her official record. 15 All right. If you haven't already done so, 16 if you have a written copy of your statement, please 17 be sure to give it to Rebecca when you finish giving 18 your statement. It's important to remember that any 19 comments provided informally in conversations with us 20 before or after this meeting are not on the record. 21 To be on the record, your comments must be provided 22 either during the listening session or as a written

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 5 1 comment. There's an area in the back of the room on 2 the table with a public comment box and public 3 comment forms that you can fill out if you choose not 4 to make a spoken statement on the record, and you can 5 make a written statement and put it in that box. 6 This concludes our introduction. We'll now 7 begin to take public comments on the draft 8 Environmental Impact Statement, and our first speaker 9 is Genna Reed. 10 MS. REED: Good afternoon. My name is 11 Genna Reed, G-E-N-N-A R-E-E-D, and I'm a researcher 12 for Food & Water Watch, a non-profit consumer 13 advocacy group that supports safe, accessible, and 14 affordable food for consumers and fair access to 15 markets for farmers. 16 We thank USDA for hosting this public 17 hearing on the proposed deregulation of Roundup Ready 18 sugar beets. After evaluating the draft EIS, we 19 continue to have concerns about the approval of yet 20 another Roundup Ready crop, especially sugar beets, 21 which are grown only in very specific regions of the 22 U.S. and pose several risks to non-GE growers. The

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 6 1 use of yet another Roundup Ready crop will add to the 2 already elevated use of glyphosate in the U.S., 3 carrying its own environmental and public health 4 risks. We urge USDA to choose alternative 1 and deny 5 the petition for deregulated status of GE sugar 6 beets. 7 First, sugar beets are a wind-pollinated 8 crop that are sexually compatible with their 9 vegetable relatives, table beets and chard. Beet 10 pollen can travel several miles, and in the 11 densely-concentrated-seed-production area of the 12 Willamette Valley, there's no way to exclude that 13 possibility. In fact, it's already happening. 14 Chard, table beet, and non-GE sugar beet growers must 15 worry about the possibility of contamination from 16 nearby GE sugar beet growers and the potential 17 economic burdens like paying hundreds of dollars to 18 test for contamination. This cost, compounded with 19 that of harvest loss, would result in these farmers 20 bearing the entire financial burden for 21 contamination. This will effectively push many 22 conventional and organic seed growers out of the

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 7 1 Willamette Valley and limit consumer choice. 2 Furthermore, if farmers do not suspect 3 contamination and unknowingly plant GE seeds, 4 contamination could continue throughout the 5 processing life cycle of the beets. This could 6 affect the export market if Japan or the EU, for 7 example, find that there is transgenic content in 8 shipments of beets or chard. Even without proof, 9 these countries may suspect contamination in dense 10 seed-producing regions like the Willamette Valley and 11 buy seed elsewhere. Both of these issues are not 12 fully represented in the EIS. 13 Next, as Roundup Ready sugar beets dominate 14 the market, these more expensive seeds will be the 15 only option remaining for farmers. According to the 16 EIS, farmers will pay $53 an acre for the technology 17 agreement just to grow Roundup Ready seeds, which is 18 actually more expensive than USDA's calculations for 19 the cost of herbicide use on conventional sugar 20 beets, which is an estimated $49 an acre. In effect, 21 just the cost of Roundup Ready sugar beet technology, 22 not including the cost of glyphosate and additional

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 8 1 herbicides, would exceed that of conventional sugar 2 beets. Also the EIS cost analysis assumes that 3 glyphosate will be the only herbicide used on these 4 sugar beets, when earlier it suggested that a regimen 5 of herbicides must be used in order to prevent weed 6 resistance. The regimen of herbicides needed to keep 7 up with Roundup Ready sugar beets and 8 glyphosate-resistant weeds will result in even higher 9 costs for farmers, which is not acknowledged in the 10 EIS. 11 The EIS acknowledges that glyphosate has a 12 high runoff potential, yet brushes off glyphosate's 13 effects on wildlife even though numerous studies have 14 shown serious developmental effects on amphibians and 15 other aquatic organisms. And with more and more 16 glyphosate use, dozens of herbicide-resistant weeds 17 have made an appearance. The EIS notes that these 18 weeds already infest an estimated 3.1 million acres 19 of sugar beet production states, which will only get 20 worse with time. And how does the USDA plan on 21 dealing with this increase in weeds? Using a mix of 22 older and more toxic herbicides. Not only are

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 9 1 resistant weeds growing in number, but the EIS also 2 pointed to increased disease susceptibility in 3 Roundup Ready sugar beets. When weighing 4 environmental impacts, herbicide pollution and 5 elevated plant disease risks should not be 6 disregarded. 7 Finally, there's no mandatory requirement 8 to label GE food products. Sugar from GE sugar beets 9 will make up majority of conventional sugar products 10 without consumers even knowing it. And according to 11 Monsanto research, the average American consumes 12 about 17 grams of sugar beet daily -- sugar beet 13 sugar daily. The EIS itself references a Rutgers 14 Food Policy Institute report which found that 94 15 percent of respondents favored GE food labels, yet 16 USDA argues that consumer demand for non-GE foods is 17 hard to estimate. 18 Consumers have a right to choose to eat 19 non-GE foods, and farmers have a right to sow the 20 crops of their choice without threat of 21 contamination. The approval of GE sugar beets will 22 inevitably lead to contamination of other crops and

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 10 1 the food supply. Therefore, we urge USDA to choose 2 alternative 1 and deny the petition seeking 3 deregulated status of GE sugar beets. And Food & 4 Water Watch also encourages APHIS to think critically 5 about its permitting process as it reforms its 6 regulations. It should not have taken a series of 7 lawsuits for APHIS to conduct an Environmental Impact 8 Statement for GE sugar beets. NEPA obligations 9 should be taken more seriously in the future. Thank 10 you. 11 MR. GEORGE: Thank you. Our next commenter 12 is Jim, it looks like White. 13 MR. WHITE: Hi. My name is Jim white. I 14 used to work for USDA. 15 MR. GEORGE: Jim, could you just say your 16 name, spell your name just in case there's something 17 strange about it so that our court reporter gets it 18 right, please. 19 MR. WHITE: It's Jim, J I-M W-H-I-T-E. I'd 20 just like to say that I support alternative 2, the 21 full deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets. I 22 think our previous speaker raised a lot of issues --

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 11 1 commented I guess I should say, raised a lot of 2 issues that were addressed in the draft Environmental 3 Impact Statement, but in my opinion, none of them are 4 plant pest risk issues, which the regulations under 7 5 CFR 340 have been written. I do agree that these are 6 issues. They're issues that need to be addressed by 7 the government, if assuming they have regulatory 8 authority. 9 Let's start with food issues. Food and 10 labeling is an important issue. That's definitely an 11 FDA issue, not a USDA issue. All the other issues 12 cost the farmers of seeds. Farmers can choose not to 13 use these seeds. That's their option. We have a 14 free country. They can choose not to. Farmers have 15 not chosen that in accordance with soybeans and in 16 any other crops where Roundup Ready is available. 17 They seem to like it. 18 And third, herbicide use. 19 Herbicide-resistant weeds have been reported since 20 the '70s. You can go back, and ever since, you use 21 any chemical, including antibiotics, resistance will 22 occur. Those issues need to be addressed by EPA.

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 12 1 EPA is the agency that is registering Roundup for use 2 on the sugar beets, not USDA. The use of older toxic 3 herbicides, for example, are already approved by the 4 EPA for use. Farmers could choose to use those if 5 they wanted to use those now. That's no change. 6 That was talked about in the proposed EIS. 7 I'd just like to say, again, I favor 8 alternative 2 for deregulation. Thanks. 9 MS. REED: Thank you for your comment. 10 MR. GEORGE: Is there anyone who has signed 11 in who indicated they did not want to make a comment 12 but has changed their mind and would like to make a 13 public comment while they're here? No? 14 In that case, we have heard from the two 15 people that have signed up to speak. We will not 16 adjourn, but we will suspend this meeting until 17 others, perhaps, arrive who choose to make a public 18 comment. Thank you. 19 (Whereupon, the meeting was suspended at 20 4:26 p.m.) 21 (Whereupon, at 7:00 p.m., the 22 proceedings concluded.)

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(866) 448 - DEPO www.CapitalReportingCompany.com © 2011 13 1 CERTIFICATE OF NOTARY PUBLIC 2 I, LAQUICIA THOMAS, the officer before whom the 3 foregoing proceedings were taken, do hereby certify 4 that I was authorized to and did stenographically 5 report the foregoing proceedings; and that the 6 transcript is a true and complete record of my 7 stenographic notes; and, further, that I am not a 8 relative or employee of any counsel or attorney 9 employed by the parties hereto, nor financially or 10 otherwise interested in the outcome of this action. 11 12 13 14

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