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Risk Assessment and Pesticide Decisions

Learn how risk assessment drives risk management decisions.

Registration Review Process

EPA will review each registered pesticide at least every 15 years to determine whether it continues to meet the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) standard for registration. There are currently 745 registration review cases.

About Pesticide Registration

EPA is responsible for evaluating and approving pesticides for use in the United States. Find out how what is involved in the regulatory process

Suggestions to Registrants on Providing Benefits Information for New Conventional Pesticide Registrations and New Outdoor Uses of Conventional Pesticides

Benefits for New Conventional Active Ingredients and/or Significant New Use Site Requests: Suggestions for Applicants

FRRCC August 2024, Meeting Agenda

this page contains a web version of the U.S. EPA Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee Meeting Agenda for August 5-6, 2024

Turning Water Data into Public Information Webcast

Watershed Academy webcast on turning water data into information for the public

Welcome and Introduction to Heat Islands

This page includes presentation and transcript PDFs from EPA's June 26, 2014 webcast, "Keeping Your Cool: How Communities Across the Country are Reducing the Heat Island Effect."

Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins: Information for Drinking Water Systems Fact Sheet

Recommendations for Public Water Systems to Manage Cyanotoxins in Drinking Water

Recommendations for Public Water Systems to manage cyanotoxins in drinking water.

What is GAP Performance Management?

Background information on AIEO's GAP Program Management strategy and supporting tools and documents.

Funding Strategies to Promote System Regionalization

This EFAB report identifies and evaluates financing strategies designed to assist and or incentivize water and wastewater systems to implement governance strategies that includes system consolidation, regional projects, and shared service arrangements.

Revenue Options for a Waste Backhaul Service Program in Rural Alaska

This EFAB report assesses revenue options for a program in rural Alaska to backhaul hazardous waste and other materials from rural Alaskan communities to reduce the toxicity of landfill leachate and of emissions from open waste burning.

A Decision-Maker's Guide to Alternative Service Delivery Options for Public Utility Projects

This EFAB report examines the potential of financing alternatives, including public-private partnerships, to help address the significant ongoing monetary challenges associated with water infrastructure projects.

EPA’s Workplan and Progress Toward Better Protections for Endangered Species

EPA is going in new directions for protecting federally listed species from pesticides

Strategy to Protect Endangered Species in Hawaii from Pesticides

EPA is exploring mitigation measures to address the effects of pesticides on federally threatened and endangered species on a geographic basis and further EPA’s ESA obligations. The Hawaii Strategy is one way to create significant efficiencies.

Strategy to Protect Endangered Species from Herbicides

The Herbicide Strategy is designed to provide early mitigations that minimize impacts to over 900 federal endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat for conventional herbicides used in agriculture.

Action Plan to Protect Vulnerable Species from Pesticides

VSAP is intended to provide a framework for EPA to adopt early, meaningful protections to address potential impacts for federally threatened and endangered (listed) species that EPA identifies as particularly “vulnerable” to pesticides.

Federal Mitigation Pilot Project to Protect Endangered Species from Pesticides

As of November 2022, FWS, NMFS, EPA and USDA have made progress discussing practical, flexible, feasible, and effective measures that are expected to reduce pesticide exposure to the pilot species.

EPA Publishes Report as Part of Agency Strategy to Reduce Animal Testing

listserv copy for release of NAMs workgroup report

Certification Systems

The WaterSense Product Certification System outlines the process and procedures for the product certification to ensure that all WaterSense labeled products meet EPA's criteria for efficiency and performance.