Under our statute, our primary mandate is health of the environment. That's our fundamental mandate under the PCPA. We also are required to ensure that pesticides have value, but there is no direct cost-benefit analysis or risk-benefit comparison as part of our decision-making. Obviously, we are very cognizant of the potential value of some of these agricultural chemicals, so we can and we do put in a fair amount of effort trying to understand risk mitigation and risk management options before we proceed to, for example, phasing out a chemical. That's why, in fact, what the proposal says is that we're proposing a transition period of three to five years right now.
On March 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.