NAAA works to educate policymakers and affect congressional and federal agency and judicial decisions to ensure their policies for pest control, plant health, environmental protection, and vector control pertaining to the use of pesticides and fertilizers use the best available science, professional techniques, and modern application technologies used by the aerial application industry; as well as the benefits aerial application provides agriculture and the environment.
FIFRA for decades regulated at the federal level all aspects of pesticide use, and it was, until 2009, uncommon for Clean Water Act (CWA) rules to come into play for the aerial application industry—for example, avoiding applications outside of buffer zones set up around specific aquatic habitat and wetlands, or to impaired river segments or…
The federal requirements for the registration of pesticide products changed significantly when the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996 was enacted. The law required all pesticides registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) also meet several new safety criteria. These include consideration by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and mitigation of…
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