13. Environmental Protection Agency · Minor
Use USDA and state pesticide usage data in registration and ESA reviews
Printed page 434 13. Environmental Protection Agency
“OPP should rely on Department of Agriculture and state usage data that reflect actual pesticide use in registration reviews and Endangered Species Act (ESA) analyses. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service should rely on similar data in their ESA analyses.”
What has happened
- Not started
No policy directs the pesticide office or the wildlife services to rely on Department of Agriculture and state usage data. EPA published no change to how usage data are used in registration review or Endangered Species Act analyzes in the window, and neither the Fish and Wildlife Service nor the National Marine Fisheries Service issued a corresponding policy.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- One negative search covered the OCSPP chemicals and pesticides asks on pp. 433-435.
- A Federal Register search of EPA documents since 2025-01-20 for “usage data” pesticide found none; for “Insecticide Strategy”, none.
- The pesticide record in the window is a stream of registration review tolerance rules (Diphenylamine, Hydrogen Cyanide, Atrazine, Terbacil, Maleic Hydrazide and others) and emergency-exemption tolerances; none changes the evidentiary basis of registration review.
- Action
- other
- Object
- pesticide usage data in registration review and ESA analyses
- ID
- 1148