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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
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TSCA Section 5(a)(3)(C) Determination 505 for Premanufacture Number (PMN) P-20-0168
This document describes EPA's pre-manufacture notice review determination under amended TSCA for P-20-0168.
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Mitigation Menu Measure Descriptions
The Technical Ecological Mitigation website provides an online tool to access new label directions
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Keeping Tabs on HABs: Research Reduces Risk
In Kansas, the presence of harmful algal blooms (HABs) produced by bacteria, known as cyanobacteria, can complicate an easygoing trip to the lake. These bacteria have thrived on our planet for 3.5 billion years.
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Does the Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) Rule prohibit the deconstruction and reuse of old building materials containing lead-based paint?
Answer: No. The RRP Rule does not prohibit a firm from extracting, salvaging or reusing building materials that contain lead-based paint. However, the requirements of the RRP Rule may apply to these activities if they (1) occur in target housing or a child-occupied facility, and (2) disturb more than six…
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When a home or an apartment unit is repainted in preparation for a new tenant, is the painting activity always considered a “renovation” for purposes of the pre-renovation education requirements even if no surface preparation activity is performed prior to painting?
Answer: No. The primary determinant of whether a given activity constitutes a “renovation” under the RRP Rule is whether that activity disturbs a painted surface. The practice of recoating painted surfaces in preparation for new tenants would not constitute “renovation” unless accompanied by activities that disturb the painted surface and…
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DOE provides weatherization grants to states, which in turn provide grants to non-profit sub-grantees. These sub-grantees fall into one of three categories: 1. The sub-grantee uses its own employees to perform all the weatherization services in the home, 2. The sub-grantee uses a combination of its own employees and contractors to perform weatherization services, or 3. The sub-grantee has no employees that perform weatherization services; instead, every service is performed by a hired contractor. Must these sub-grantees be RRP-certified firms?
Answer : Beginning April 22, 2010, no firm may perform, offer, or claim to perform renovations covered by the RRP Rule without certification from EPA. Sub-grantees that use their own employees to perform any or all of the weatherization services in the home, such as the sub-grantees in the first…
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What is the “work area?”
Answer: The “work area” is the area established by a certified renovator to contain the dust and debris generated from a renovation. In other words, the work area is defined by the containment measures established by the certified renovator. While a renovator has some discretion in setting up a sufficient…
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Region 7 States Air Quality Monitoring Plans - Nebraska
National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) - Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska; Annual Monitoring Network Plans, Five-Year Monitoring Network Assessments, and approval documentation. Each year, states are required to submit an annual monitoring netwo
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State Water Reuse Resources
State Reuse Programs and Information
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EPA Holds Virtual Training for Pesticide Applicators in Indian Country
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs will host a two-day virtual training on Aug. 19-20, 2020, to certify participants as private applicators of restricted-use pesticides (RUPs) in Indian country
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EPA Offers Virtual Training for Pesticide Applicators in Indian Country
EPA is offering a free, two-day training webinar on August 11-12, 2021, to certify participants as private applicators of restricted-use pesticides (RUPs) in Indian country under the EPA Plan for the Federal Certification of Applicators of Restricted Use
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Occupational Pesticide Post-application Exposure Data
Occupational Pesticide Post-application Exposure Data
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EPA Supports New Funding Opportunity from the Pesticide Educational Resources Collaborative for Pesticide Safety in Agricultural Communities
The Environmental Protection Agency is supporting new funding from the pesticide educational Resources for pesticide safety.
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EPA’s Workplan and Progress Toward Better Protections for Endangered Species
EPA is going in new directions for protecting federally listed species from pesticides
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EPA Finalizes Revisions to the EPA Plan for the Federal Certification of Applicators of Restricted Use Pesticides within Indian Country
EPA finalized the EPA Plan for the certification of applicators of Restricted Use Pesticides
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School Facility Managers Realize Sustainable Pest Control Benefits
This compilation document features successful integrated pest management (IPM) strategies utilized by school facility managers from various types of school districts across the United States.