EPA offers a number of ways for the public to participate in and comment on regulatory actions that the Agency proposes to take regarding the registration and review of pesticides.

Opportunities for Public Comment:

Open for Comment – This link provides a list of all the notifications and proposed regulatory actions sponsored by EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs currently available for public comment. Included in this list are registration actions, and re-registration and registration review actions.

Public Participation in Registration Actions – This link provides a smaller list of pesticide active ingredients which are part of EPA’s effort (initiated in 2009) to expand the opportunities for public comment on certain pesticide registration actions. This list focuses on those actions that involve new active ingredients, and the first food use, first, outdoor use, and first residential use of currently registered products.

Pesticide Active Ingredients in Registration Review and Reregistration Programs – These lists include all of the pesticide active ingredients that EPA is required by law to review to ensure that they meet current scientific and regulatory standards.

• Under the Registration Review Program, EPA must review each registered pesticide at least every fifteen (15) years. Registration Review includes opportunities for public involvement.
  
• Under the Reregistration Program, EPA was directed to complete Reregistration Eligibility Decisions or REDs for all older pesticides. With stakeholder and public involvement, EPA completed the last REDs in 2008. EPA continues to implement these decisions through label amendments another other means.

Opportunities for Public Involvement:

Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee - This Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) committee provides a forum for a diverse group of stakeholders to provide feedback to the pesticide program on various pesticide regulatory, policy and program implementation issues. The Committee meets two to three times a year and all meetings are open to the public.

Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) - The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) is composed of biologists, statisticians, toxicologists and other experts who provide independent scientific advice to the EPA on a wide-range of health and safety issues related to pesticides. These meetings are open to the public and announced on this webpage and in the Federal Register.

Other Meetings – Other meetings of interest to the public are announced from time to time on this webpage.