NEW YORK GRANTS PROMOTE ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES

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Subject:    NEW YORK GRANTS PROMOTE ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES
 Date:        Tue, 22 May 2001 08:40:12 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

cc:    Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov

Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an article entitled:

NEW YORK GRANTS PROMOTE ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES

ALBANY, New York, May 18, 2001 (ENS) - New York State has committed more than $530,000 in grants to local governments, schools and not for profit organizations for 15 projects which promote alternatives to pesticide use in public buildings and schools.

The grant funding is intended to promote non-toxic pest control methods to reduce the amount of pesticides used in the state.

"New York State is committed to encouraging non-toxic alternatives to pesticides to prevent pest infestations and protect the public from unnecessary exposure to chemicals," said Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner Erin Crotty. "These grants will help make our schools and public places cleaner and healthier for our children and local government employees by providing communities with resources and options to control pests through integrated pest management."

The grants are being awarded through DEC's Bureau of Pesticides Management. The grants provide up to $50,000 to municipalities for training in non-toxic pest control methods and for basic building repairs designed to reduce pesticide use by preventing pest infestations. No local matching funds are required.

Most of the grant recipients receiving funding will conduct training projects focusing on non-toxic pest management and alternatives to pesticides, with an emphasis on practical techniques, including hands on training and demonstrations of day to day practices, sanitation measures and landscape pest management. A number of grant recipients will make basic structural repairs to buildings that will prevent, prohibit or reduce pest infestations.

Well Mr. Helliker, You and New York do not even have to make grants to promote alternatives to your "registered" POISONS, as I have already found, created, researched, field tested and/or written about over 2300 safe and far more effective pest control alternatives. My only problem is when will these unregistered alternatives be "legal" (in your opinion) to use to actually control pest problems?

Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten

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