Fwd: USDA Comment Process
sal (sals@rain.org)
Thu, 05 Feb 1998 07:18:36 -0800
>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:23:03 -0500
>Reply-To: AGRISYNERGY <AGRISYNERGY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>Sender: AGRISYNERGY <AGRISYNERGY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>From: Woody Wodraska <woodyw@JUNO.COM>
>Subject: USDA Comment Process
>X-To: jwintermute@APHIS.USDA.GOV
>To: AGRISYNERGY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>
>Janet:
>
>I recall some months back you wrote on this list about what happens when
>public comments reach federal government agencies. I don't remember the
>details, but the impression I had was that low level clerks simply tally
>"yea" and "nay" regarding the issues and pass the numbers on to
>administrators upstairs so they know which are the hottest buttons.
>
>On the Biodynamics email list there's considerable discussion going on, a
>call to arms to respond to the egregious USDA proposed organic standards.
> One fellow copied to the List his comment to Ms. Eileen S. Stommes
>USDA-AMS-TM-NOP, and it was a model of clear thinking and impassioned
>eloquence. My question: is there any chance at all that anyone with
>policy making responsibility at USDA would ever see these comments and
>perhaps be moved by them? Or is the "tally and pass the numbers"
>scenario all that is likely to happen?
>
> (\ Woody Wodraska
>- {|||8- Seeking Common Ground CSA
> (/ Honeoye Falls, NY woodyw@juno.com
>
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