Implementing the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act - Fiscal Year 2013 Tenth Annual Report March 1, 2014 ------- Implementing the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act — Fiscal Year 2013 Maintenance Fees Pesticide Reevaluation Programs: Product Reregistration and Registration Review Accomplishments Status of Product Reregistration Overall Accomplishments Product reregistration is EPA's program for implementing Reregistration Eligibility Decisions (REDs) by ensuring that required risk reduction measures are reflected on pesticide product labels. The EPA has completed its review of the safety of pesticide active ingredients first registered before November 1984 through the reregistration program. The results of the EPA's reviews are summarized in RED documents available on the Agency's Chemical Search website. After the EPA completed a RED for a pesticide active ingredient and declared it eligible for reregistration, individual end-use products that contained that active ingredient still were required to be reregistered. As of the end of FY' 13, 24,583 pesticide products were subject to product reregistration. The EPA has completed decisions for 18,909 of these products, and 5,674 products were awaiting decisions. FY'13 Progress During FY'13, the EPA completed 686 product reregistration decisions. Historical Product Reregistration Decisions FY 02 FY 03 FY 04 FY 05 FY 06 FY 07 FY 08 FY 09 FY 10 FY 11 FY 12 FY 13 Products reregistered 77 53 78 104 169 529 679 603 484 373 186 81 Products amended 51 40 35 63 40 80 205 292 40 460 980 455 Products cancelled 186 213 14 342 297 370 309 869 1,188 379 92 148 Products suspended 0 5 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 6 26 2 TOTAL 314 311 127 509 506 979 1,196 1,769 1,718 1,218 1,284 686 Page 1 of 3 ------- Implementing the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act — Fiscal Year 2013 REDs with Product Reregistration Decisions Completed As of the end of FY' 13, the EPA had completed product reregistration decisions for 269 REDs (out of a total of 384 REDs). Status of Registration Review Overall Status The EPA is reevaluating pesticides primarily through the registration review program. Through registration review, as mandated by FIFRA Section 3(g), the EPA is reviewing each registered pesticide every 15 years to determine whether it continues to meet the statutory standard for registration, that is, to make sure that the pesticide can still be used without unreasonable adverse effects on human health and the environment. Registration review, thus, ensures that as the ability to assess risk evolves and as policies and practices change, all pesticides in the marketplace can still be used safely. The EPA is continuing to meet all registration review targets consistent with overall program objectives. At the end of FY' 13, out of a universe of over 700 registration review cases including over 1,100 pesticide active ingredients, over 450 cases were past the docket opening stage, over 400 cases were past the final work plan stage, and 87 registration review final decisions had been completed. FY'13 Accomplishments During FY' 13, the pace of registration review continued . Among the three registration review divisions, we opened seventy-seven new dockets and completed seventy-nine final work plans. In addition, through FY' 13, we completed eighty-seven registration review final decisions. Registration Review Progress FY'07 - FY'13a Fiscal Year Dockets Opened Final Work Plans Completed Final Decisions Completed FY'07 25 13 3 FY'08 46 36 7 FY'09 69 60 14 FY'10 75 72 21 FY'11 82 78 23 FY'12 79 72 11 FY'13 77 79 8 TOTAL 453 410 87 a Changes to annual registration review milestone totals have been revised based on changes to rules for when to count some milestone accomplishments. Page 2 of 3 ------- Implementing the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act — Fiscal Year 2013 In FY' 13, the EPA continued to open dockets for new registration review cases at the pace that must be maintained for the next five years in order to finish the initial 15-year cycle on schedule in 2022. Page 3 of 3 ------- |