{"id":5443,"date":"2013-06-25T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2013-06-25T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:52:49","slug":"pesticide-reporting-and-information-work-group-members-announced-first-meeting-scheduled-for-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2013\/06\/25\/pesticide-reporting-and-information-work-group-members-announced-first-meeting-scheduled-for-july-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesticide Reporting and Information Work Group Members Announced; First Meeting Scheduled for July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MDA<\/a>ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 The members of the Maryland Pesticide Reporting and Information Work Group, which was created during the 2013 legislative session and will be staffed by the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA), have been announced. The work group will hold its first meeting from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, July 9, in the Environmental Matters Committee Room in the House Office Building in Annapolis.<\/p>\n

The primary charge of the work group is to identify any data gaps in pesticide use and reporting that need to be filled and how best to fill them. The work group\u2019s recommendations are due back to the General Assembly by summer of 2014.<\/p>\n

Work group members were appointed by House Speaker Michael Busch and the Senate President Mike Miller. Membership also includes representatives from MDA, and the Maryland Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Natural Resources and Environment. MDA\u2019s Director of Government Relations Joanna Kille and Pesticide Regulation Program Manager Dennis Howard will staff the committee.<\/p>\n

Work group co-chairs are Delegate Stephen Lafferty and Senator Roger Manno.<\/p>\n

Work group Members are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Joe Bartenfelder, owner, Bartenfelder Farms<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ruth Berlin, Executive Director, Maryland Pesticide Network<\/p>\n

\u2022 William W. Bowerman, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andy Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director, Clean Water Action<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sherm Garrison, Program Manager, Water and Habitat Quality, Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/p>\n

\u2022 Carol Holko, Assistant Secretary Plant Industries and Pest Management, Maryland Department of Agriculture<\/p>\n

\u2022 J.B. Jennings, Maryland State Senate<\/p>\n

\u2022 Frederick W. Kutz, Ph.D., Chair, Pesticide Advisory Committee, Maryland Department of Agriculture; and Senior Research Associate, Towson University<\/p>\n

\u2022 Judy S. LaKind, Ph.D., President, LaKind Associates, LLC, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center<\/p>\n

\u2022 Clifford Mitchell, M.D., Director, Environmental Health Bureau, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jed Miller, M.D., Physician Program Staff, Science Services Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment<\/p>\n

\u2022 Doug Myers, Senior Scientist, Chesapeake Bay Foundation<\/p>\n

\u2022 Charles Otto, Maryland House of Delegates<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ronald L. Ritter, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus PSLA, University of Maryland College Park<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brian Schoonmaker, Vice President, Capitol Pest<\/p>\n

\u2022 Julie Spagnoli, Senior Management Regulatory Consultant, Exponent, Inc.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrea Kidd Taylor, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management SCHP, Morgan State University<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steve Weber, Owner, Weber\u2019s Cider Mill Farm<\/p>\n

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