Environmental Forum: June 1999

While the Food Quality Protection Act gets more and more of the legislative news focus, state governments are doing anything but sitting still.

In an interview with Lawn & Landscape, Fred Langley, manager of state government affairs, Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment, Washington, D.C., discussed legislative projects of interest to green industry contractors around the country.

WASHINGTON. “There is a study coming out that will focus on Puget Sound and King’s County (Seattle, Wash.),” noted Langley. “We anticipate the study will report positive detection of pesticides.”

The importance of the study is that it may serve as the basis for water quality protection regulations designed to battle run off of pesticide and fertilizer products, according to Langley. The issue is a political hot button because of the declining number of salmon in the Sound and the importance these fish play in the local economy.

“The city of Seattle believes there is an urban component contributing to the toxic load of the water,” Langley related. “The city has already published ads in area newspapers telling citizens what they can do to protect the water quality, and that includes no longer using pesticides or fertilizers.”

Langley said contractors need to show the government how interested they are in working to fix the problem.

Questions for contractors to explore include:

• What are our loading and mixing operations like so there aren’t residues left over?
• Do we need to apply liquid products in areas susceptible to product movement?
• Should we landscape some buffer zones around areas susceptible to movement?

CALIFORNIA. The Los Angeles City School Board voted to phase out the use of pesticides, following legislation passed in San Francisco earlier.

“The legislation calls for a complete phase out by 2002,” Langley noted. “It’s interesting to note that the school board recognizes that the program will cost an additional $1.5 million to maintain the landscape annually.

“I see these initiatives as the beginning of a bigger trend of governments moving away from pesticide use, even if it may compromise public health,” Langley added. “This L.A. decision is being used as an example by groups in Massachusetts pushing two school bills to phase out pesticide use.”

NEW YORK. If there are legislative concerns in New York, then they’re likely to be centered around public notification requirements.

“There are no real public benefits by having each application announced,” Langley claimed. “This is an area designed to be self serving for the activist community because it gives them more ammunition.”

Langley explained that the notification legislation being considered would require contractors to alert all abutting neighbors to the property receiving the application 48 hours before the application.

On a broader scale, Langley voiced his concern that too few contractors are willing to get personally involved in fighting such legislative maneuvers.

“I’d like to say that we have everyone primed, ready and willing to jump into the fray, but I don’t think we have that consistently across the country,” Langley recognized. “Instead, it’s the same groups and the same people called on every year to do battle, and eventually they will get worn out.

“Unless other folks benefiting from all of this work step up to be counted, we may not have anyone to fight the fight,” he noted.

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