Laws & Regulations
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Emergency Preparedness and Response Requirements
To reduce exposure risks to people who may be near a buffer zone, soil fumigant pesticide applicators are required to either provide on-site monitoring of the perimeter, or provide emergency response information directly to neighbors.
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Dazomet Fumigant Safe Handling Guide
Dazomet is the active ingredient in Basamid G soil fumigant pesticide. Wear personal protective equipment such as respirators when handling Basamid granules or making an application, mitigate exposures, and recognize signs of vapor inhalation.
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Presentations on Soil Fumigation Requirements - PDF Format
These provide training, outreach, and other resource materials for applicators and handlers, communities, state and local agencies, and others interested in understanding and implementing the current requirements for safe use of soil fumigant pesticides.
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Presentations on Fumigant Requirements
These provide training, outreach, and other resource materials for applicators and handlers, communities, state and local agencies, and others interested in understanding and implementing the current requirements for safe use of soil fumigant pesticides.
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Soil Fumigant Fact Sheet Compilation
These cover information about buffer zones and the sign posting requirements, fumigant management plans, certified pesticide applicators and handlers, and resources for tribal and state lead agencies (SLAs) and residents of agricultural communities.
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Film Permeability Determination Using Static Permeability Cells
The permeability of tarps to soil fumigant pesticides varies depending on the active ingredient chemical: dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), methyl bromide, chloropicrin, or other. The diffusion rate can be represented by the mass transfer coefficient (MTC).
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Presentations at 2013 Pollinator Summit --Dust Focus Group
These presentations covered pesticide exposure risks posed to honey bees by the dust from planting treated corn seed, and research on reducing dust by means such as talc replacement and standards for planter technology.
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Safety Information for Handlers of Pesticide Soil Fumigants
Certified applicators are required to provide this training to handlers in an application block or buffer zone. Information must include signs and symptoms of exposure, and where to find the Fumigant Management Plan and Worker Protection Standard.
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TSCA Section 5(a)(3)(C) Determination for Premanufacture Number (PMN) P-19-0134
This document describes EPA's pre-manufacture notice review determination under amended TSCA for P-119-0134.
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Reviewing New Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
This microsite will provide information on how EPA’s new chemicals review program works, on the assessment tools and policies EPA uses in this program, and on the regulatory outcomes of EPA’s review of new chemicals notifications.
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Corrections to TRI Regulations: Final Rule
EPA has finalized corrections to existing regulatory language for the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program that updates identifiers, formulas, and names for certain TRI-listed chemicals described in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
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Minimum Risk Pesticides Exempted from FIFRA Registration
The website provides information on the criteria that must be met for a product to qualify for the FIFRA exemption.
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How many samples of miscellaneous material or non-friable suspected material must be taken to determine if the material is asbestos-containing material (ACM) under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA)?
For miscellaneous material, 40 CFR part 763.86(c) states that “in a manner sufficient to determine whether material is asbestos-containing material (ACM) or not ACM, an accredited inspector shall collect bulk samples from each homogeneous area of friable miscellaneous material that is not assumed to be ACM.” Although a specific number…
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Please define the term "non-friable suspected ACBM." Also, what does the term "manner sufficient to determine" mean with respect to sampling such material under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA)?
Non-friable suspected asbestos-containing building material (ACBM) means suspected surfacing asbestos-containing material (ACM), thermal system insulation ACM, or miscellaneous ACM that is found in or on the interior structural members or other parts of a school building and that when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand…
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Models and Tools for National Level Listed Species Biological Evaluations of Triazine, and Glyphosate
The tools and models on this web page were developed for use in the Steps 1 and 2 analyses of national level assessments of the risks of herbicides.
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Models and Tools for National Level Listed Species Biological Evaluations of Carbaryl and Methomyl
The tools and models on this web page were developed for use in the Steps 1 and 2 analyses of national level assessments of the risks of chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion to endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat.
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Models and Tools for National Level Listed Species Biological Evaluations of Neonicotinoid Insecticides
The tools and models on this web page were developed for use in the Steps 1 and 2 analyses of national level assessments of the risks of herbicides.
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Materials for June 2024 Webinar on Final Regulation of Methylene Chloride under TSCA
Meeting materials from the June 4, 2024 webinar on the final risk management rule for methylene chloride.
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TSCA Work Plan Chemical Problem Formulation and Initial Assessment 1,4-Dioxane
1,4-Dioxane Problem Formulation and Initial Assessment
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Methylene Chloride Scope Document and Supplemental Files
scope document and supplemental files for methylene chloride