Implementing the Pesticide Registration
Improvement Act - Fiscal Year 2014
Eleventh Annual Report
March 1, 2015

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Implementing the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act — Fiscal Year 2014
Pesticide Registration Service Fees
Accomplishments
Pesticide Worker Protection
Under FIFRA Section 33(c)(3)(B), the EPA is authorized to use 1/17 of the amount of the
Pesticide Registration Fund (but not less than $1 million) to enhance current scientific and
regulatory activities related to worker protection and $500,000 in each fiscal year, 2013 through
2017, for funding of the Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP).
The agency worked closely with worker safety stakeholders through the agency's Federal
Advisory Committee, the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC), to determine which
activities to enhance with PRIA funds. Based on the advice of the PPDC, the agency decided to
develop enhancements within the following focus areas: Prevention - Safety Training, Response
- Poisoning Recognition, Sound Decision Data, and Inform - Risk Management. Table 1 lists the
activities funded and their accomplishments in FY 2014.
EPA helps implement the national pesticide safety education program through a cooperative
agreement with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Foundation.
Through this agreement, PRIA funds are distributed to federally-recognized pesticide safety
education programs, usually based in the state cooperative extension services. The program's
objectives are to provide financial assistance to pesticide safety education programs to educate
and train pesticide applicators of restricted use pesticides through the development of training
materials and the development and implementation of pesticide applicator competency
workshops.
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