EPA now must meet a number of re-evaluation milestones to decide if its
previous risk management decisions were justified, or if tougher restrictions
or cancellations are necessary.
"Even with the demonstration of cellulosic ethanol technology, federal
policy is needed to ensure market pull for alternative transportation fuels in
a market dominated by petroleum .

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"We need huge volumes of ethanol to enhance our energy picture.

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USDA Asked to Fund Genetically Engineered Crop Initiative

Includes an exclusive interview with
Dennis Edwards, an EPA official who explains the Agency's position on biofilm
products. WASHINGTON, The Biotechnology Industry Organization
(BIO) urges Congressional appropriators to fully fund the Department of Energy
Biomass and Biorefinery Systems R+D program in the President's 2007 budget
request, released yesterday. Bringing cellulosic
ethanol to the pump will require government support in biotech research and
development , biorefinery construction, and market expansion," said Jim
Greenwood, BIO president and CEO.
"Biotech enzymes have been the key to enabling the use of crop wastes and
other cellulosic matter in the production of ethanol. These
programs should be fully implemented," Greenwood concluded.
Breakthroughs in industrial biotechnology have dramatically reduced the
cost of enzyme-based cellulosic ethanol production over the past five years.

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These advances have
served to drive down the cost of this alternative fuel and increase its
availability. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 established
several programs to create and expand the market for cellulosic ethanol.

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pesticide. If
successful, industry will begin investing in commercial-scale biorefineries,
and consumers could begin buying more products -- including fuel for their
cars and trucks and bioplastics -- produced in America's heartland.

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The technology is ready today
and sustainable agricultural feedstocks such as corn stover and wheat straw
are abundantly available in most states.

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The single greatest hurdle to commercialization of cellulosic ethanol is
construction of the first integrated biorefineries .

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NET Insider eJournal can read the full story at
http://www. The program received $91 million in 2006 appropriations, and the
President has proposed increasing funding to $120 million for 2007.

BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic
institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the
United States and 31 other nations.

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"The President 's Advanced Energy Initiative will help displace future
demand for oil by increasing funding to develop affordable, domestically
produced bio-based transportation fuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and other
products largely derived from oil today.

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, Scientists and other stakeholders
have joined forces to promote a major research thrust in the controversial
arena of genetically modified fruits, vegetables and other specialty crops.

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California Criticizes EPA's Enforcement Response To Biofilm Products
California is pursuing enforcement against unregistered products that
control biofilm in dental waterlines, while criticizing EPA for lifting a
stop-sale order against one such product." Includes a profile of Patty Clary, Executive Director
of Californians for Alternatives to Toxics.

Published bi-weekly, Insider eJournal provides the inside story on issues
important to pesticide registrants, regulators and policy activists.pesticide.

"The biotechnology industry can play a vital role in meeting the
President's stated goal of increasing America's energy security by replacing
imported oil with domestically produced alternative fuels.

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Court Shoots Down Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Eradication Program
The program is intended to keep the glassy-winged sharpshooter from
destroying the lucrative vineyards of northern California." said Brent Erickson ,
executive vice president of BIO's Industrial and Environmental Section. BIO members are involved in the research
and development of healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental
biotechnology products.

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These research, development and
demonstration programs should be funded at least at the level authorized in
the Act.

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NET (http://www. The increased investment will support
construction of an industrial-scale biorefinery to demonstrate production of
fuels, chemicals, heat, and power from biomass (energy crops and crop
residues), much like an oil refinery produces these products from oil.

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However, its potential applicability to pesticides is
uncertain. But a state appeals
court has unanimously ordering the Agriculture Department to return to the
drawing board after finding that the associated environmental impact report is
"infected with errors. This is
still just over half the authorized level. These
programs must be funded at a level sufficient to mobilize private financing.

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LAKE RIDGE, Va. Once we
add crop wastes as the new 'renewable crude oil' we can begin to significantly
ramp up ethanol production above current levels.
"The President's biofuels initiative can help bring cellulosic ethanol to
filling stations throughout the country within a few short years, if we start
now to build the biorefineries needed to produce large volumes of this
domestically grown fuel," Greenwood added.

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An ad hoc group of biotech, regulatory and crop protection specialists --
called the Specialty Crop Regulatory Initiative -- has asked USDA to provide
$250,000 in funding for a scoping project on developing genetically modified
specialty crops.
However, advances in new feedstocks, harvesting, storage , transportation and
processing are still needed to produce renewable and sustainable
transportation fuel at a price competitive with fuel from the mature petroleum
industry.

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President's Budget Proposal Will Help Bring Cellulosic Ethanol to the Pump If Fully Funded

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America's
breadbasket could soon become our energy fields as well. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 provided for strong programs at both
the departments of Energy and Agriculture.

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net) is the world's leading website for
news and regulatory information on conventional, biological and antimicrobial
pesticides, with over 10,000 documents and a quarter million visits per month.

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Given the longstanding opposition to biotech foods, it 's a safe bet that
government development of genetically engineered fruits and vegetables would
unleash major protests.

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Other articles in the January 31, 2006, issue of PESTICIDE.NET Insider
eJournal include:

EPA Responds To Lawsuit By Agreeing To Re-evaluate Organophosphate Risks
The suit alleges that EPA violated FIFRA safety standards by allowing
workers to suffer unacceptably high exposures to phosmet and azinphos methyl.

White House Issues Proposal On Multi-Substance Risk Assessments
A draft Bulletin from the Office of Management and Budget seeks to
implement the goals of the Data Quality Act for risk assessments involving
multiple substances. The Energy Policy Act of
2005 established the Biorefinery Loan Guarantee Program and the Biorefinery
Grants Program to provide the government assurance necessary to help refiners
secure private financing for construction of the first new plants.

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