| United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1975 - 222 pages
...effects on the environment" at the time a product is registered. "Unreasonable adverse effects" are defined as ". . . any unreasonable risk to man or...environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide." This basic standard guides our regulatory decisions under the Act, be they on registration and classification,... | |
| United States. Congress House. Committee on Agriculture - 1975 - 862 pages
...registration and tolerance setting, and the general risk-benefit assessment. Unreasonable adverse effects are defined as any unreasonable risk to man or the environment,...environmental costs, and benefits of the use of any pesticide. Further details of the provisions of each significant section of FIFRA as amended are enclosed for... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1975 - 564 pages
...unwarranted. The Act has clearly defined the term "unreasonable adverse effects on the environment" to mean any "unreasonable risk to man or the environment,...environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide." The proposed criteria would establish arbitrary specific standards which would deny registration or... | |
| 1987 - 416 pages
...effects on the environment." In the context of FIFRA, unreasonable adverse effects are defined to mean: "any unreasonable risk to man or the environment,...environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide." The risk/benefit mandate of FIFRA makes pragmatic sense when you consider that pesticides, almost by... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1975 - 234 pages
...risk-benefit formula. The act requires that the Administrator, in evaluating a pesticide, take : "* * * into account the economic, social and environmental costs and benefits of the use of * * *" the pesticide. The Administrator has, in our opinion, substantially departed from this precept... | |
| United States. General Accounting Office - 1975 - 112 pages
...and the environment, that is, without any unreasonable risk to man or the environment, considering the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of the use of the pesticide. The property of a substance or mixture of substances which causes adverse effects in... | |
| United States. General Accounting Office - 1976 - 72 pages
...Act of 1972 (7 USC 136) defines the "unreasonable adverse effects on the environment" of a pesticide as "any unreasonable risk to man or the environment,...environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide. Since January 28, 1975, the Office of Management and Budget has required that agencies of the executive... | |
| 1973 - 80 pages
...adverse effects on the environment. — The tern "unreasonable adverse effects on the environment" means any unreasonable risk to man or the environment, taking...environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide. (cc) Weed. — The term "weed" means any plant which grows where not wanted. (dd) Establishment.—... | |
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