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Funding Program:
Enhancement Grants - State Contacts/IPM Documents |
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Project Title:
Southern Region Specialty Crops at Risk Program - Regulatory Information Network |
Project Directors (PDs):
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Lead State: VA Lead Organization: |
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Cooperating State(s):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virgin Islands |
| Undesignated Funding: $150,000 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2011 End Date: May-31-2012 |
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Pests Involved: all |
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Site/Commodity: all |
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Area of Emphasis: regulatory information |
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Summary:
Since the inception of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) there has been an increased national emphasis to maintain viable pest management strategies for economically important crops. Most of these crops are considered specialty crops that are in high demand for pest management. FQPA has affected the availability of many existing pest management tools, especially pesticides. This has potentially disrupted the ability of growers to implement effective integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, to manage pest resistance, and to compete in the world market. USDA has funded four regional IPM centers to work with the States to focus on enhancing economic benefits, protecting human health, and preserving natural resources. This includes the preservation of viable IPM strategies. Virginia Tech, the University of Florida, University of Tennessee, and Texas A&M University are working in four sub-regions with the Southern Region IPM Center and important agricultural stakeholders to support a regional regulatory information network. The network is designed to allow stakeholders in the Southern Region to communicate with EPA and USDA through the Center to provide input into IPM needs and strategies subject to FQPA regulation and related impacts. The institutions/project directors will work in their respective sub-regions, to provide a conduit of communication for each state through the network. In addition, the network will be managed as a working group to maintain a constant communication between the sub-regions and their partners in the respective states. The project directors in the sub-regions will also be responsible for supporting the Center through maintenance of IPM documents and priorities and providing a web-based presence to communicate their activities to the region.
Objectives: will add |
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Impacts As a result of working with federal, regional, and state stakeholders, a formal working group was established which is now meeting every few months to work on solutions to dealing with regulatory requests and issues impacting IPM in the states. As a result of a request for input to determining the need for malathion for control of biting flies and mosquitoes, a nationwide stakeholder survey was conducted. The outcome produced data from 68 entities in 25 affected states and territories that was shared with the stakeholders, EPA, USDA, and the registrant. That information was valuable in establishing a need to continue registration of malathion for these uses. These pests are potential human health risks, so their control is critical to avoiding transmittal of disease to the public. As the result of surveys and discussions with stakeholders in the four Southern subregions, stakeholders were provided with a voice in the decision-making process associated with the Food Quality Protection Act. This input provided the EPA a scientific and economically sound basis for future regulatory decisions associated with various chemicals and chemical groupings. Chemicals included malathion, azinphos-methyl, methyl bromide, 2,4-D, methyl iodine imidacloprid, bifenthrin, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and 1,3-Dichloropropene. Crops associated with this work included fruits, vegetables, field crops, and specialty uses. |
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Outputs A regulatory information network working group was organized for the Southern region to open an ongoing discussion with decision makers affecting IPM, regional crops, and specialty uses of pesticides. This group was made up of stakeholders from the EPA, USDA, the states, the Southern IPM Center, and the subregion project directors. We met every one to two months throughout the grant period. |
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Outcomes Work within the working group organized as part of this activity worked on solutions to regulatory decisions associated with IPM and crisis situation with critical pests and diseases, registration issues, strategies for handling future requests for data using a clustering method, and priorities. |
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Results The regional working group was organized through this project to focus on stakeholder support in the states and region. The primary priority was the need to support the EPA and USDA decision making process associated with pesticide registration. This process has a big impact on IPM, grower ability to sustain their operations, environmental protection, protection of human and animal health, protection of plant health, and viable pest management strategies. This group was organized to work with the regulators and the Southern IPM Center to solve problems and engineer a mechanism for input from affect stakeholders to the agencies involved in regulating pesticides. By meeting in a working group throughout the grant period we were able to sustain an ongoing dialog, solve problems, and provide input associated with stakeholder needs. |
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