EPA Compliance Monitoring Strategy for Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)

The EPA Compliance Monitoring Strategy for Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a national sectoral plan/strategy of the United States of America. Its primary goals include: targeting compliance monitoring activities in accordance with priorities; providing a visible field presence that will encourage compliance and deter noncompliance; assessing and documenting compliance with FIFRA, the implementing regulations, pesticide labels and pesticide registrations; identifying problem areas requiring resolution through regulatory actions by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP); collecting evidence to document and support enforcement actions; and monitoring compliance with enforcement orders.
This Strategy provides a multi-year framework and national guidance for the FIFRA compliance assurance program to achieve the goals of FIFRA compliance monitoring and enforcement. Specifically, this CMS is intended to: promote an understanding of, and compliance with, minimum program requirements; promote national consistency in program implementation while acknowledging and allowing appropriate flexibility; provide a strategy for setting priorities that focus on the greatest risks to health and the environment; articulate guiding principles of the strategic approach to help EPA headquarters, regions, states, and tribes allocate resources across the FIFRA compliance assurance program; provide inspection frequency goals; clarify the intersections of compliance monitoring for the ongoing FIFRA core program, the national areas of focus, and state or tribal priorities; enhance the use of data collected for priority setting and inspection targeting; and clarify requirements for reporting national program results.