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 TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC MEETING

 CONDUCTED BY

 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE

 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PUBLIC COMMENT ON

 GLYPHOSATE TOLERANT (ROUNDUP READY) ALFALFA

 DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

 DOCKET NO. APHIS-2007-0044

 HELD ON FEBRUARY 4, 2010

 FROM 4 P.M. TO 7 P.M.

 AT THE

 HOLIDAY INN HAYMARKET

 141 NORTH 9TH STREET

 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68508
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S

2 MR. ABEL: My name is Sid Abel. I'm the

3 senior deputy administrator for Biotechnology

4 Regulatory Services. I'll be involved in chairing

5 the meeting.

6 Today's meeting is the third public

7 meeting to solicit comments from the public on the

8 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services Draft

9 Environment Impact Statement evaluating the potential

10 environmental impacts of deregulating alfalfa

11 genetically engineered to be resistant to the

12 herbicide glyphosate, known commercially as Roundup.

13 The GE alfalfa is commonly referred to as Roundup

14 Ready Alfalfa in the EIS. The GE alfalfa is also

15 referred to as glyphosate-tolerant or GT alfalfa.

16 APHIS considered two alternatives in the

17 Draft EIS, grant nonregulated status for two lines of

18 Roundup Ready alfalfa or to maintain the status as

19 regulated. APHIS analyzed these alternatives with

20 regards to their potential impacts on gene flow

21 between the Roundup Ready alfalfa and non GE alfalfa,

22 on weed development, on wildlife species, and on

23 species with protected status, also known as

24 endangered or threatened species.

25 The Draft EIS also analyzes the
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1 alternatives with regard to their impact on herbicide

2 use, plant species, socioeconomic factors, including

3 conventional and organic alfalfa markets, dairy and

4 beef markets and general trade; human health and

5 safety, land use and production practices and the

6 physical environment including the soil, the climate,

7 air quality and water.

8 The alfalfa Draft EIS addresses two

9 aspects of the National Environmental Policy Act

10 implementation. The analysis and consideration of

11 potential impacts of the proposed Federal action and

12 the consideration of a range of alternatives.

13 APHIS prepared this Draft EIS to comply

14 with the February 2007 judgment and order by the

15 United States District Court for the Northern

16 District of California. The Court did not overturn

17 APHIS's 2005 conclusion regarding the safety of

18 Roundup Ready alfalfa for food and meat purposes, but

19 rather concluded that APHIS had not adequately

20 documented the potential or the lack of potential

21 environmental impacts.

22 Based on the impact analysis in the Draft

23 EIS APHIS has preliminarily concluded that there is

24 no significant impact on the human environment in

25 granting nonregulated status to Roundup Ready
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1 alfalfa. However, I would like to emphasize that

2 this is a Draft EIS and not a final decision of the

3 regulatory status of Roundup Ready alfalfa.

4 APHIS will consider all public comments

5 submitted during the comment period before finalizing

6 the EIS or making any final decisions regarding the

7 regulatory status of Roundup Ready alfalfa. The

8 comment period on the draft EIS is 60 days and

9 comments are due by midnight, February 16th, 2010.

10 As part of the public participation

11 process we are holding this meeting and other public

12 meetings to solicit comments from the public on the

13 draft EIS. Comments provided today, both verbally

14 and in writing, will be made part of the official

15 public record and evaluated during the preparation of

16 the final EIS.

17 Before continuing I'd like to recognize

18 the staff here with APHIS who assisted with the

19 public meeting and the development of the Draft EIS.

20 To my left is Andi Huberty who is the branch chief of

21 our regulatory and environmental analysis branch and

22 also our -- the lead person on the Draft EIS.

23 In front of me here is Rebecca

24 Stankiewicz-Gabel. She is an environmental

25 protection specialist who will be taking over the EIS
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1 to get it to a final and will be our timekeeper today

2 for verbal comments.

3 In the back is David Reinhold. He is the

4 assistant director of the environmental risk analysis

5 program and also the lead for the deregulatory

6 implementation team.

7 And then to his left is Mike Pina who is

8 a legislative and public affairs specialist, so if

9 anybody here's from the press he'll help us.

10 We are providing speakers two minutes to

11 present their information. If you did not denote

12 that on the sign in and you wish to present your

13 comment, please do so now at the sign in table.

14 Rebecca will be our timekeeper and will let you know

15 when your two minutes are up. We appreciate everyone

16 being polite in responding.

17 In order to give everyone an equal

18 opportunity to speak it is necessary for us to

19 enforce the two minute time limit. Unfortunately

20 even if you are not finished within that time we will

21 have to move on to the next speaker. We appreciate

22 your cooperation and understanding.

23 When your name is called please come to

24 the front of the room so Rebecca can provide you with

25 a microphone. Please begin by stating and spelling
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1 your name for our court reporter and stating your

2 organization you are representing. Your two minutes

3 begin at that point.

4 If you haven't already done so, please

5 provide Rebecca with a written version of your

6 statement at the end of your two minute time period.

7 If we have time after all our speakers have finished

8 with their remarks we will have an informal poster

9 session in the back of the room. The purpose of the

10 poster session is to answer clarifying questions, not

11 to discuss and debate the issue or the analysis of

12 the draft EIS.

13 It is important to remember that any

14 comments made during this time are not part of the

15 record. All comments must be provided either during

16 the verbal session or as written comments. We have

17 provided a table with the Draft EIS and forms for

18 written comments. Comment forms also provide

19 information on how to submit your comments.

20 We will take the speakers in order of

21 sign in. And I'd like to remind you once again,

22 please come to the microphone, if you will state your

23 name, spell your name for our court reporter, that

24 would be appreciated.

25 Our first speaker today will be Mr.
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1 Howard Vlieger.

2 MR. VLIEGER: My name is Howard Vlieger,

3 V-l-i-e-g-e-r. I have been involved in biological

4 crop production since 1989. I appear today to demand

5 that the USDA delay the approval of Roundup Ready

6 alfalfa until adequate research and testing is

7 completed.

8 All GMO crops raised in the U.S. have

9 been approved with reckless abandon by the regulatory

10 agencies in the U.S. The FDA, EPA and USDA have all

11 failed miserably in properly measuring the risks

12 associated with GMO crops. Show us the research and

13 the long-term testing that has been conducted by an

14 accredited, independent third-party on any GMO

15 crops. Show us the long-term animal testing by any

16 independent third-party researcher that has been

17 completed without showing any side effects of GMO

18 crops. Where is any of the research that should be

19 mandatory for producing any genetically modified crop

20 in the food chain in the U.S.

21 In my written comments I will provide you

22 information supporting negative side effects to every

23 Roundup Ready crop grown in the U.S., soybeans, corn,

24 cotton, canola and sugar beets. There is

25 overwhelming evidence of the negative effects of
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1 Roundup Ready crops and the use of glyphosate

2 herbicide. This is proven by research from

3 accredited university professors such as Johal Huber

4 from Perdue University and Dr. Kremer from the

5 University of Missouri. I will provide these in my

6 comments, along with public papers from scientific

7 journals proving the negative effects of glyphosate

8 crops and the use of glyphosate on these crops in the

9 environment.

10 There are numerous incidents of toxins

11 showing up in the grain supply all across the U.S.

12 that can be directly traced back to the opportunistic

13 fungi, that being Fusarium, Pythium, Phytophthora,

14 Rhyzoctonia, Sclerotium, Sclerotinia that proliferate

15 in the soil with the use of the glyphosate resistant

16 crops. These toxins are causing poor performance,

17 ill health and death in every livestock species

18 raised in the U.S. that's being fed GMO grain. I

19 again demand that you not approve Roundup Ready

20 alfalfa until the proper research and testing is

21 completed. Thank you.

22 MR. ABEL: Thank you. Next speaker, Mr.

23 Robert Sage. If you will state your name and spell

24 it for us, please.

25 MR. SAGE: I'm Robert Sage, S-a-g-e. My
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1 brother and I are sixth generation farmers in

2 Wabaunsee County, Kansas. We have a cow/calf

3 operation, as well as crops. Our crops consist of

4 wheat, corn and soybeans. We also raise alfalfa for

5 our cattle operation. We both coexist conventional

6 and Roundup Ready alfalfa in our operation for the

7 different needs of our cattle.

8 I'd like to back up and give you a little

9 history. The last two years I participated in the

10 Power Plant in Kansas which is the Kansas Agriculture

11 Group Leadership Development Program. At the end of

12 that two year course at Kansas State University we

13 toured India for two weeks. In two and half year --

14 or two weeks I learned many valuable things about the

15 India society and culture. There's also 1.2 billion

16 people and growing daily in India.

17 The reason I bring that up is I think

18 it's very easy to detect that we have a growing world

19 population. As we try and meet the needs of the

20 growing population in this world. We need to create

21 more food for those people.

22 A high quality, safe food supply for the

23 American and world society is very important. We

24 will not keep other industries, such as automobile,

25 manufacturing, computers, slow down or stop their
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1 technology to become a better product for their

2 stock. GMO created products are also very important

3 for the development of the food supply of the world.

4 I, as a sixth generation farmer, feel

5 like we are the original environmentalists of the

6 land, stewardship and producing high quality food on

7 our land for many generations to come is what I

8 intend to do. We need GMO's to help us do that.

9 Thank you.

10 MR. ABEL: Thank you. The next speaker is

11 Mr. Daren Nelson.

12 MR. NELSON: I am Daren Nelson from St.

13 Ed, Nebraska, D-a-r-e-n N-e-l-s-o-n, representing

14 Nelson Farms. I guess I would take the liberty of

15 coming here to speak from the heart. I'm not going

16 to give a written speech or something.

17 For me and a four generation family farm

18 the use of biotechnology, Roundup Ready alfalfa has

19 proved to be a very important part of our operation.

20 Along with Roundup Ready alfalfa I also grow organic

21 alfalfa. I see the benefits of Roundup Ready alfalfa

22 outweigh the organic product for production.

23 As farmers we strive to try to feed the

24 world. I feel that biotech crops are the wave of the

25 future and they need to be embraced. I feel that
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1 there's science in back of these crops and we need to

2 show more support for them.

3 To me I guess it means more for people to

4 see that these -- that it will be good for them, not

5 somebody reading something off of the Internet and

6 making a list without the full facts and everything

7 on how it impacts the economy, the environment, or

8 the producers and the economy.

9 We need to take advantage of the produced

10 biotechnology and not go to other parts of the

11 world. I think we have a duty, a better appreciation

12 for biotech crops if our population had ever gone

13 hungry.

14 Our population does not understand where

15 their food comes from and it's very important for

16 them to learn that, if they do not want to become a

17 little hungry or starve at some time. It would be

18 really I think a detriment to our society and to our

19 farm economy if we do not approve the Roundup Ready

20 alfalfa. And I really thank you.

21 MR. ABEL: Thank you. The next speaker

22 is Mr. Dale Strickler.

23 MR. STRICKLER: Hi. I'm Dale Strickler,

24 S-t-r-i-c-k-l-e-r. I'm a small rancher in north

25 central Kansas. And I saw something -- or learned
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1 something a while back, there's a place in Iraq where

2 an unknown scientist has crops, taken genetics from

3 four different plants and crops. And he began

4 planting that and it spread rapidly. And next year,

5 that's the plant that's going to cover about 500

6 million acres around the world. Sounds pretty scary,

7 until you find out that happened 4,000 years ago and

8 the plant's called wheat.

9 Likewise, in Central America, between 1

10 and 2,000 years ago some unknown scientist took genes

11 from three different plants, crossed them together

12 and produced what we now call corn. And it's going

13 onto probably about 300 million acres around the

14 world.

15 Now, I'm sure at some point that story of

16 those two plants evolutions were pretty scary. There

17 was an unknown risk there. But think where we'd be

18 today without the evolution of those plants.

19 I think there's a question here. Do we

20 let fear mongering or science rule the day. One

21 recent development in our society has been that fear

22 makes money. You can spread a scary story and people

23 will send you money, especially with the advent of

24 the Internet. And I think that's a trend we need to

25 stop and we need to let science rule the day.
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1 If GMO's are safe, let them see the

2 market. If they're not safe, they're stopped. But

3 all the science that I've seen and I've been privy to

4 a lot of it, says they're safe. And I support the

5 deregulation of Roundup Ready alfalfa.

6 MR. ABEL: Thank you. The next speaker,

7 Mr. Jim Kesler.

8 MR. KESLER: Thank you. My name is Jim

9 Kesler, K-e-s-l-e-r. I live in northeast Kansas,

10 town of Sabetha. I'm a commercial hay grower, have

11 350 to 400 acres of alfalfa. We currently have about

12 190 to 195 acres of Roundup alfalfa. We use

13 technology on our farm for a number of years. We

14 help advance technology. A good sample of soil,

15 there's a lot less to burn with lime and fertilizer,

16 we glyphosate them and also show that we're using our

17 farm. Our goal is to produce and grow hay and where

18 the alfalfa is and we do not harvest any seed.

19 On my land I have traditional alfalfa

20 that coexists with Roundup alfalfa with no

21 detriment. I have -- these two grow side by side in

22 the field and we've had no drift problems with

23 management. I also have an organic grower that is

24 across the road from me. He's growing organic crops

25 less than 100 feet from my Roundup alfalfa. We've
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1 had no drift problems with the Roundup over on his

2 crops, no complaints. We have a good farming

3 relationship side-by-side. He in fact right now has

4 got one of his organic fertilizers sitting in my hay

5 shed. So we have no problems coexisting there.

6 The first field that I planted to Roundup

7 alfalfa was planted in the spring. We had a drought

8 that year that hurt production. And if I had not

9 been being Roundup alfalfa I would have had a field

10 of grass, weeds and maybe had to replant. But with

11 Roundup technology we were able to keep that clean.

12 It didn't get much height and we had to cut it first

13 over again. Didn't get a lot. Without the Roundup

14 technology this wouldn't have happened.

15 I've got an older field of traditional

16 alfalfa that's now out of production, but the last

17 three, four years, we fought -- fought and cleaned up

18 pigweed and water hemp. We've tried two different

19 products two different years to control this without

20 success. And with the Roundup technology we could

21 have kept this field clean. I appreciate the USDA

22 people's work and their fine work, on work they've

23 done and request they deregulate alfalfa. Thanks.

24 MR. ABEL: Thank you. And the last

25 speaker who signed in is Ms. Katie Mack.
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1 MS. MACK: Katie Mack, K-a-t-i-e

2 M-a-c-k. I'm from Minnesota. My family owns a

3 diversified crop and livestock operation. As the

4 daughter of a managing farmer I want to be a part of

5 the future of my family operation, agriculture and

6 the change of ag. As a child of the technology

7 generation I'm making it my goal to become an

8 agriculture activist, a story teller and share my

9 practices and priorities in being a good steward of

10 my land and the surrounding environment.

11 Roundup Ready alfalfa is the future,

12 biotechnology and practices in other areas have been

13 embraced and should be in agriculture. The American

14 farmer has embraced GPS, Blackberrys, Internet and

15 such technologies. As they embraced this they have

16 been saved by biotechnology practices in hospitals,

17 cars and use technology.

18 The solution to our issue is to embrace

19 change, pass the knowledge to the consumers and let

20 them know how we are good farmers. And good farmers

21 are the choice for the future. I want the choice to

22 manage my operation into the future of agriculture.

23 Thank you.

24 MR. ABEL: Thank you. That ends the

25 speakers who have signed in today. At this point
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1 we'll give you the opportunity to let anyone else, if

2 they want to sign in to feel like you have an

3 opportunity for a presentation today. Otherwise we

4 will be here until approximately 7 o'clock tonight.

5 And if anybody else comes in they will have an

6 opportunity also to give an oral comment.

7 So we'll be around. We'll be in the

8 back. We also have another comment table in the back

9 if you'd like to provide some written comments,

10 you're welcome to. And we'll be here to answer any

11 questions. Thank you for coming tonight.

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3 I, Linda A. Norris, Electronic Reporter and

4 General Notary Public, do hereby certify that the

5 foregoing Transcript of Public Hearing is correct and

6 complete, and contains all matters required to be

7 included herein; and that the Transcript of Public

8 Hearing was reduced to writing by me or under my

9 direction;

10 That the foregoing Transcript of Public Hearing

11 was taken by me at the time and place herein

12 specified;

13 That I am not counsel, attorney or relative or

14 otherwise interested in the outcome event of this

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16 In testimony whereof, I have placed my hand and

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