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His responsibilities include regulatory issues related to insecticides and insecticide resistance management. Dr. Myers also serves on USDA’s hemp working group, providing input on numerous regulatory issues for this newly legalized crop, with an emphasis on registration of needed crop protection tools. Prior to joining OPMP, Dr. Myers worked at EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs for nearly a decade, and he has extensive experience in pesticide benefits/usage analysis, label review, and insecticide efficacy review. Dr.

Dr. Fajardo joined OPMP in 2012 as a Plant Pathologist. In this capacity, Dr. Fajardo’s portfolio includes policy issues involving registration reviews of fungicides, biofungicides and plant growth regulators as well as fungicide resistance in collaboration with EPA. He has worked on emerging diseases and pathogens through USDA-ARS’ National Plant Disease Recovery System, USDA-APHIS’ Multi-Agency Coordination Group for citrus greening or huanglongbing including the Federal Interagency Committee on Invasive Terrestrial Animals and Pathogens (ITAP). Dr.

The Office of Energy Policy and New Uses (OEPNU) operates within the Office of Energy and Environmental Policy (OEEP) to assist and advise the Secretary of Agriculture in developing and coordinating USDA energy policy, programs, and strategies, and helps ensure that USDA is positioned to anticipate and respond to emerging challenges and opportunities in the rapidly evolving field of renewable energy.OEPNU’s responsibilities include:

The  Office of Energy and Environmental Policy (OEEP) serves as a focal point for the Department’s energy, environmental markets, and global change activities, positioning USDA and the people we serve to meet future challenges and opportunities. OEEP coordinates policy analysis, long-range planning, research priority setting, and response strategies for addressing energy development and environmental policy.

Dr. Bodnar has served in multiple roles across USDA. She was a Regulatory Risk Assessor focusing on ecological risk assessments in OPMP and a Senior Science Advisor at the Foreign Agricultural Service. At the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine, she was a Senior Environmental Compliance Specialist working on risk analysis and risk mitigation for invasive pest management. At APHIS Biotechnology Regulatory Services, she served as a Policy Analyst and Biotechnologist, working on regulatory policy. Dr. Bodnar began her career in the U.S.

Prior to this position, Elise served as the Associate Director of the Food Economics Division at the Economic Research Service, USDA. She received her Ph.D.

Peter Feather is responsible for analyzing the Department's various policies and activities that relate to agricultural labor, and he represents the USDA on immigration issues.Dr. Feather has held this position since June, 2009.  Prior to that, he held positions as the Fuel Economy Division Chief at the Department of Transportation, Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers and Economist at the USDA Economic Research Service.