EPA Announces Updated Schedule for FIFRA Registration Review Program

WASHINGTON - EPA is announcing an updated schedule for the next four years of the registration review program, the periodic review of all registered pesticides mandated by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).

Summary: The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 as amended in 2007 (PRIA II) requires EPA to complete registration review decisions by October 1, 2022, for all pesticides registered as of October 1, 2007. To ensure meeting this requirement, EPA will open approximately 70 pesticide registration review dockets annually beginning in FY 2009 and continuing through 2017, so that almost all pesticides registered at the start of the program will have dockets opened by 2017. Some biopesticide dockets will be opened in 2018 through 2020. The Agency anticipates that this scheduling will provide adequate lead times to complete registration review decisions for all currently registered pesticides by 2022. During the first several years of the program, EPA is developing a pipeline of pesticides under review so that it will have the capacity to make 70 or more decisions each year. EPA expects a total of about 710 pesticide cases comprising 1,136 pesticide active ingredients to undergo registration review by 2022.

EPA also announces that beginning in 2009, all new dockets for conventional pesticide cases entering registration review will have a 60-day public comment period. During the comment period on new registration review dockets, the Agency asks interested persons to review Summary Documents and other information in the dockets, and identify any additional information that the Agency should consider during the registration reviews of these pesticides.

Source: Federal Register: March 11, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 46)

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Web site: The Federal Register notice is at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-5199.htm

Background information on the program is at http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/

The current schedule is at http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/schedule.htm

An explanation of the schedule is at http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/explanation.htm

Information about the neonicotinoids and other groups of related pesticides beginning registration review is at http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registration_review/highlights.htm

Contact: Kevin Costello, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-5026; fax number: (703) 308-8090; e- mail address: costello.kevin@epa.gov