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Pesticide News Story: PPDC Workgroup Meeting on PRIA Process Improvement
For Release: April 10, 2009
On Monday, April 20, 2009, EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs will host a meeting of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Renewal Act (PRIA 2) Process Improvement Workgroup, a subgroup of the Agency's Federal Advisory Committee, the PPDC (Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee). The objective of this workgroup is to identify and evaluate potential reforms to the pesticide registration process. The goal is to reduce the amount of time the Agency takes to process an application under PRIA 2 without compromising the scientific quality of its assessments.
The agenda is available on the Web site. Agenda topics include discussion about the Agency's efforts to improve its review of pesticide labels, and ways the Pesticides Web site at can be improved. Time is allocated for public comment. In particular, the public is invited to share how they use the Pesticides Web site and how it can be improved.
The meeting will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the lobby-level Conference Center of the Potomac Yard South building, located at 2777 S. Crystal Drive (One Potomac Yard), Arlington, VA. This is the 12th meeting of this workgroup. Information on PRIA 2 is available on the Web site. Contact Elizabeth Leovey (leovey.elizabeth@epa.gov) with questions and for instructions on how to participate by teleconference.