Registration Review

• On April 26, 2000, EPA issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on the registration review process required by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA).
• FQPA established this requirement for periodic review of pesticide registrations to ensure that over time they continue to meet statutory standards for safety.
• The comment period closes June 26, 2000.

• Aspects to be covered include:

• Setting priorities for review
• Establishing a mechanism for setting schedules for review
• Articulating the general approach for conducting and concluding the review
• Other areas to be determined as needed

• The reviews will occur on a 15-year cycle.
• Existing regulations and guidance on information required for pesticide registration will continue in effect.
• This process will not affect the ability of EPA to require data from registrants when needed to support a registration or to conduct other reviews, such as the Special Review process.

• Ensure continued protection of human health and the environment
• Keeping registrations up to date
• Incorporating lessons learned from reregistration

• Step 1: Plan and schedule candidates for review
• Step 2: Publish schedule, define initial scope and level of review, and issue needed data call-ins and requests for applications for scheduled candidates
• Step 3: Registrants submit applications for review
• Step 4: EPA conducts the review and issues it for public comment
• Step 5: Consider comments, issue final review, and review registrant’s proposed labels

• EPA’s interpretation of the FIFRA Section 3(g) mandate for registration review
• Interpretation of "review of a pesticide’s registration every 15 years"
• Commencement of a 15-year registration review cycle
• Goals and objectives for the registration review program
• Relationship of registration review to other mandates
• Non-conventional pesticides
• Criteria for setting priorities and scheduling compounds for review
• Process for announcing schedules for registration review
• Scope and depth of registration review
• Submission of applications for registration review by registrants
• Potential penalties for submission of incomplete applications
• Incentives and opportunities for registrant participation in registration review
• Maximize work-sharing opportunities
• Public participation
• Role of the Internet in involving outside stakeholders
• Participation of small entities in the rulemaking process

• EPA’s pesticide homepage www.epa.gov/pesticides has information about pesticide regulation as well as publications about pesticide issues for consumers.