Comment submitted by J. Blaker, Tahoe Mountain Club

I have been a golf course Superintendent in the Truckee/Tahoe region of Northern California for 16 years. I manage 3 top-ranked courses which have extreme disease pressure from Pink and Gray Snow Mold disease. Our snow cover can last up to 150 days and is normally over 120 days. There are no other products on the market that control these diseases for that amount of time. All of our courses are on a comprehensive water monitoring program that monitors both surface water and ground water. In 6 years of testing we have never found PCNB in any of our samples. The replacement value of our bent grass putting greens is approximately 22 million dollars (for all 3 courses) and the amount of revenue lost is untold if we have a catastrophic disease occurance. Please allow the continued use of PCNB for turf grass on golf courses. Turf grass is mother natures best water filter and this product is not ever applied to bare ground on any golf course. The use of PCNB for field crops (and other) should not be lumped in with turf grass for this specific reason.