AAPCO’s Year in Review March 9, 2020 Rose Kachadoorian AAPCO President Oregon Department of Agriculture AAPCO’S 73RD ANNUAL SPRING MEETING AND CONFERENCE ALEXANDRIA VA
Association of American Pesticide Control Officials, Inc. (AAPCO). Established in 1947. Members of AAPCO consist of the officers charged by law with the execution of the state, territorial, provincial, and federal pesticide laws in the United States, including all its territories, and in Canada. Our mission is to represent states in the development, implementation, and communication of sound public policies and programs related to the sale, use, transport, and disposal of pesticides.
Importance - Guidance Documents We thank our regulatory partners at EPA for their decades of working with AAPCO members on internal guidance documents and written responses to AAPCO inquires. EPA generated or reviewed documents, and response letters: Help clarify existing law • Help ensure that EPA, SLAs and tribes have the same • understanding, standards and expectations. Help us to fulfill our obligations under the FIFRA Cooperative • Agreement. Allow for staff to be properly trained in existing federal laws. • Promote consistent compliance and enforcement. • Allow for a more informed regulatory decisions. • Help in educational efforts regarding EPA's existing laws. •
Good News! Increase in State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) Funding Funding will help foster and maintain high quality training, and sustainable compliance assistance and enforcement programs. Significantly underfunded programs Challenges in: • Providing needed assistance to regulated entities. • Fulfilling obligations - cooperative agreement. • More access to staff training. The need for increased STAG funding has been urged for many years by AAPCO. Success: Tony Cofer, AAPCO Immediate Past President, worked with our partners at NASDA
AAPCO Summer 2019 BOD Meeting l Greater emphasis of onboarding and mentoring of new board, committee, and workgroup members. l Increasing collaboration with NASDA, IR-4 and organizations, such as the Weed Science Society of America. – Designated liaisons. l Mission, goals and policies. l Policies for when working with media. l Budget and fee structures.
Voluntary Label Improvement Project AAPCO-SFIREG is undertaking a long-term label improvement project based on development of the ideal “good” label rather than reviewing “bad labels”. The project will be coordinated and overseen by a Project Manager and Project Chair, and utilize specialized teams. Megan L. Patterson Project Manager - SFIREG Label Improvement Project Liza Fleeson Trossbach Project Chair - SFIREG Label Improvement Project https://aapco.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/kach-aapco-label-12-10-19.pdf
Increased emphasis of the importance of service to our members and communication. All Documents, Presentations, Survey’s and Meeting Minutes on posted on public website
https://aapco.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/aapco-2020-letter-to-the-membership-final-2-3-2020.pdf
• With IR-4, learning about structural difference between different use types (fiber vs. CBDs) • Differences in CBD extraction methods. Hemp grown for fiber in Indiana Joined with the Weed Society of America to have a meeting in Indiana Hemp grown for CBDs in Oregon
Letters from the AAPCO BOD were provided in response to a Federal Register Notice and a Senate Request Letter to FDA : "Scientific Data and Information About Products Containing Cannabis or Cannabis-Derived Compounds". Hemp should be treated similarly to other crops and regulated • as a food crop, with the recognition that it may be grown for food products and its by- products may be feed to livestock. Allow state lead agencies to provide quality control over • pesticide use. Establish appropriate pesticide tolerances • US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Development of food tolerances that would cover hemp seeds and/or derivatives extracted from hemp flower buds and leaves.
Letters: Response to Federal Register Notices Draft Guidance for Pesticide Registrants on Plant Regulator Label Claims, Including Plant Biostimulants. New & growing category of agricultural products • Some are comprised of naturally-occurring substances, • and microbes Stimulate plant growth via improved nutrient and water • use efficiency, protection from abiotic stress, and/or plant regulator activity Not considered to be fertilizers or to be used for pesticidal • purposes.
continued Letters: Response to Federal Register Notices Draft Guidance for Pesticide Registrants on Plant Regulator Label Claims, Including Plant Biostimulants. Table 4 l Include microbes l More guidance - what is and what is not considered a pesticide. Use sites and use rates. Safety. l Reference tables are able to be updated without opening the rulemaking processes. l EPA response - Non-compliant in the market or through state registration or inspection processes? Provided comments to NASDA USDA regarding biostimulants
continued Letters: Response to Federal Register Notices Sodium lauryl sulfate; exemption from the requirement of a tolerance - establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the fungicide and miticide sodium lauryl sulfate… Antimicrobial Performance Evaluation Program – Development of a Risk-Based Strategy". • EPA needs to further refine the definition of devices • Require pesticide registration for generators that produce a substance that acts as a pesticide. • Evaluate these products for proven effectiveness, especially for those products making human health claims .
continued Letters: Response to Federal Register Notices Pesticides; Agricultural Worker Protection Standard; Revision of the Application Exclusion Zone Requirements AAPCO supports EPA's proposals to simplify the AEZ, and believe that the revisions will lead to increased compliance. AAPCO requested for EPA to: • Simplify the Criteria for Indoor Applications. • Add a mechanism for a Shelter in Place provision. To ensure consistent compliance education and enforcement related to soil fumigant applications, AAPCO also requested an EPA guidance document.
Formation of Two New AAPCO Workgroups Emerging Technologies Workgroup Robby Personette (WI), Chair Presentation on March 11. Hemp Workgroup John Scott (CO) and Rose Kachadoorian (OR, Co-Chairs Mostly sharing information at • this point. Appointment of SLA members is • being been finalized. A diverse group will be selected. • EPA and IR-4 have committed to • being active members.
National Assessment of Pollinator Plans - Survey Later on this week, we will hear about the significant partial culmination of efforts by: SFIREG, AAPCO, PPDC, and also EPA. The AAPCO Pollinator Workgroup distributed the assessment (survey) to all states, territories and to tribes, and provided results to EPA.
Thank you Rose Kachadoorian rkachadoorian@oda.state.or.us Pesticides Program, Oregon Department of Agriculture
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