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Status Report to Congress on Endangered Species Act Implementation in Pesticide Regulation
For Release: December 15, 2014
The EPA and its federal partners, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), have written a report to Congress on the status of Endangered Species Act implementation in pesticide regulation. The EPA and its federal partners are committed to refining their approach to pesticide consultations to protect endangered and threatened species.
This report was required by the 2014 Farm Bill and summarizes actions carried out by the agencies since receiving the April 2013, National Academy of Sciences’ report, entitled “Assessing Risks to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides.”
Since receiving the NAS report, the federal partners have:
- built a collaborative relationship among the federal partners;
- clarified roles and responsibilities for the agencies;
- improved stakeholder engagement and transparency during review and consultation processes;
- held two joint agency workshops resulting in interim approaches for use in assessing risks to ESA-listed species from pesticides;
- created a plan and schedule for applying the interim approaches to a set of pesticide compounds; and
- hosted multiple workshops and meetings with stakeholders.
Read the full report at https://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/endanger/2014/esa-reporttocongress.pdf (47 pp, 4.61MB, about PDF)