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Title of Listing:
EPA OPPTS Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)
Category:
Federal/National - Agencies
Subcategory:
US Environmental Protection Agency-EPA, All Listings
Date:
Document #:
Web Site:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/index.html
Email:
Abstract:

The Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is part of the US EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS). The mission of the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is to safeguard public health and the environment from unreasonable pesticide risks, while ensuring that pesticides are regulated fairly and efficiently. OPP develops regulations, policy documents, guidelines and analyses covering scientific, legal, and international matters. Over the past twenty-five years, OPP has developed programs to evaluate and govern a wide variety of pesticide products and uses, ranging from insect repellents to weed killers to hospital disinfectants to swimming pool chemicals. OPP is required by 1988 amendments to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to review and, as warranted, reregister all existing pesticide products that contain active ingredients initially registered before November 1, 1984. The goal is to update labeling and use requirements and reduce potential risks associated with older pesticide active ingredients -- those first registered when the standards for government approval were less stringent than they are today. As of 1996, EPA has made reregistration decisions on more than 130 pesticides, and more than 200 other pesticides (and 20,000 pesticide products) have been canceled since reregistration began.

          OPP currently manages four major pesticide field programs involving work with pesticide users and others to ensure safe pesticide use practices are implemented in the field. These programs include 1) implementing the Worker Protection Standard for agricultural workers, 2) protecting endangered species, 3) protecting ground water, and 4) ensuring that applicators of potentially more hazardous pesticides are appropriately trained and certified in their use. The Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division of OPP is devoted to biologically-based pesticides and to measures that reduce pesticide risks. A major effort being spearheaded by this division is the Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program, a broad effort by EPA, USDA, and FDA to work with pesticide users and others to reduce pesticide risk and use in both agricultural and non-agricultural settings.

          OPP also undertakes a variety of other communications efforts to ensure that the public has the information it needs to make responsible decisions about pesticides and to promote public health and environmental protection goals. To achieve this goal, OPP issues announcements and publications, provides information by telephone and electronic network, responds to written inquiries, maintains a public docket, holds public meetings, and presents speeches and Congressional testimony.
Topics
Federal Environmental Agencies, Hazardous Materials/Substances, Pesticides/FIFRA

Additional Topics/Tags/Keywords
EPA, Pesticides, Products, Reregistration, Chemicals, Biopesticides

Organization:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)
Address:
401 M Street, SW (7501C)
Phone:
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City:
Washington
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Primary (703) 305-7090
State/Province/Territory:
DC
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Zip/Postal Code:
20460
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Country:
United States
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