Colorado Pest Control Laws and Regulations

Question 1

FIFRA

Answer 1

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

Question 2

EPA founding year and acronym

Answer 2

1970 Environmental Protection Agency

Question 3

OPP is what to the EPA

Answer 3

Office of Pesticide Programs

Question 4

FIFRA focus?

Answer 4

Pesticide distribution, sale, and use

Question 5

FIFRA regulations apply to

Answer 5

People who manufacture, formulate, market, distribute, use, or dispose of pesticide products

Question 6

Before a pesticide can be sold or used it must what?

Answer 6

FIFRA requires that it be registered with the EPA

Question 7

How many times of pesticide registration

Answer 7

Four

Question 8

Name four types of registration

Answer 8

1. Full Federal Label. 2. Emergency excemption. 3. Special local needs label. 4. Minimum Risk Pesticides

Question 9

Full Federal Label Registration

Answer 9

Most pesticides are registered this way

Question 10

Emergency Exemptions

Answer 10

When there are no federally registered pesticides available to control a serious pest problem

Question 11

Special Local Needs Label

Answer 11

Colorado can register additional uses of a federally registered pesticide

Question 12

Minimum Risk Pesticides

Answer 12

Do not require an EPA number due to minimal inert ingredients

Question 13

Certified Applicator

Answer 13

Someone who has been recognized by the state, tribe, territory, or agency responsible for regulating pesticides as being competent to use or supervise the use of RUP’s

Question 14

FIFRA defines two categories of certified applicators

Answer 14

Private Applicator, Commercial Applicator

Question 15

Private applicator

Answer 15

Person who uses RUP’s on their own land such as a farmer

Question 16

Commercial applicator

Answer 16

Person who engages in the business of applying pesticides for hire

Question 17

Pesticide Reregistration

Answer 17

All pesticides need to meet new safety standards

Question 18

Residues

Answer 18

Pesticide that remains on foods

Question 19

Tolerance

Answer 19

The allowable amount of residues set by the EPA

Question 20

Cumulative exposure

Answer 20

Combined effect of exposure to pesticides

Question 21

Storage and disposal

Answer 21

EPA sets the guidelines for storage and disposal for all pesticides and rinsates

Question 22

Penalties for FIFRA violations

Answer 22

Civil and Criminal

Question 23

Civil Penalties

Answer 23

Up to $5000 per offense for commercial applicators. Warning for Privator Applicators, second offense up to $1200.

Question 24

Criminal Penalties

Answer 24

Willful violation of FIFRA is a misdemeanour and subject to a $25,000 fine and one year imprisonment. A producer, up to $50,000 and one year imprisonment

Question 25

FFDCA

Answer 25

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Question 26

EPA’s Role in food

Answer 26

Sets tolerances or maximum legal limits for pesticide residues on food

Question 27

FDA’s Role in food

Answer 27

Provides for monitoring of food crops for pesticide residues and enforces the tolerances set by the EPA

Question 28

FQPA

Answer 28

Food Quality Protection Act

Question 29

Food Quality Protection Act role

Answer 29

Set a new single, health based standard when assessing the risks of pesticide

Question 30

Worker Protection Standard

Answer 30

Provides protections to workers who perform hand labor tasks

Question 31

Endangered Species Act of 1973

Answer 31

Designed to protect endangered species and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)

Question 32

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

Answer 32

Provides funding for federal cleanup

Question 33

HMTUSA

Answer 33

Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act

Question 34

Transport of pesticides across state lines are regulated by

Answer 34

DOT - Department of Transportation

Question 35

Transport between states must have

Answer 35

DOT-Approved Sign, not hauled with food or feed, contact DOT immediately if someone is killed, injured to go to hospital, or damage is more than $50,000