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Mill Assessment/Product Compliance Program
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California assesses a fee on all pesticide sales, levied at the point of first sale into the state. A "mill" is equal to one-tenth of a cent. This "mill assessment" is 21 mills, or 2.1 cents per dollar of sales. Mill assessment revenues are placed in a special fund used to support the State’s pesticide regulatory program. The mill assessment program is a self-assessment system. Each quarter, DPR mails reporting forms to pesticide registrants, licensed pest control dealers and licensed pesticide brokers. Completed forms are due to DPR within 30 days of the end of the quarter.
New Pesticide Broker & Retail Requirements
- What you need to know about pesticide broker
licensing (PDF, 134 kb) (December 2005)
- Text of Assembly Bill 1011, Chapter 612 (PDF, 93 kb)
- Pesticide Broker Licensing Notice (PDF, 181 kb) November 2005
Paying the Mill Assessment and Product Compliance
- Product Compliance: Gaining Marketplace Equity and Consumer Protection (PDF, 87 kb) (handout)
- FAQs (PDF, 79 kb)
- Information for Retail Stores: Selling Pesticides and Paying Mill Assessment (PDF, 112 kb)
- Fines and settlements for unregistered or misbranded products, and for failure to pay required mill assessment fees
Fees and Budgeting
- About DPR’s budget and funding
- About increased regulatory fees (PDF, 245 kb) (November 2003, narrative and chart)
- Funding California’s Pesticide Regulatory Program, a January 2003 report to the Legislature
Background
- Pounds of pesticides sold in California, annual reports, 1991 to date
For content questions contact:
Lynn Owen, Branch Chief
1001 I Street, PO Box 4015
Sacramento, California 95814-4015
Phone: (916) 445-3851
E-mail: lowen@cdpr.ca.gov