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EPA Workshop on New Provisions in PRIA 3
The EPA will hold a workshop on April 10, 2013, to discuss new provisions in the Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012, known as PRIA 3, and the agency’s experiences to date with its implementation.
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Purpose of the workshop
Plenary presentations will include discussions on what is new in PRIA 3, the 2-day label review process, new technical screening of applications, the EPA’s new similarity clinic process to handle substantially similar applications, changes in primary and secondary actions and inerts. The plenary presentations will be available to the public by webinar. The breakout sessions, which will provide for more detailed discussion and interaction, will be available only to those attending the sessions.
Date, time, location
The workshop will be held on April 10, 2013, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm EDT at the Office of Pesticide Programs, First Floor Conference Center, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.
How to join the workshop by webinarhttps://epa.connectsolutions.com/pria3wkshp/
Workshop agenda
Plenary Session (plenary presentations covered by webinar)
9:00-9:15 am -- Welcome9:15-10:00am -- What’s new in PRIA 3
10:00-10:45 am -- 2-day label review/clean labels
10:45-11:00 am -- Break
11:00-11:30 am -- 45/90 Preliminary Technical Screen – pilot
11:30-12:00 pm -- Similarity clinic
12:00-1:00 pm -- Lunch
1:00-1:30 pm -- Primary/secondary actions
1:30-2:00 pm -- Inerts
2:00-4:00 pm -- Breakout sessions (breakout sessions not covered by webinar)
- Conventionals (First floor conference room)
- new categories that are causing confusion
- uncleared inerts
- problematic submissions – case studies
- Antimicrobials (Room N4830)
- updated statistics (technical screens, completed, PRIA 3 actions, renegotiations, PRIA 2 actions still pending)
- areas of change (new categories, interpretations, indoor use patterns switched to outdoor – e.g., oil field use, swimming pools and recirculating water)
- 45/90 technical screen/checklist/10-day deficiency letters triggered for problems such as efficacy requirements (certificate of analysis [nominal vs. lower certified limit]), not substantially similar/box 6 incomplete, uncleared inerts, and bridging arguments and data waivers not adequately addressed
- 158W
- Biopesticides (Room N4850-70)
- rationales for the new categories
- tolerance exemptions – making the case without limitations
- bridging arguments – examples of good and bad
Additional Information on PRIA 3