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• DPR 08-006 Field Fumigant Emission Limits (Noticed 11/28/08; 45–day comment period closed 1/15/09) This proposed action would revise the total pesticide (fumigant and nonfumigant) volatile organic compound emissions benchmarks in the Sacramento Metro, San Joaquin Valley, South Coast, Southeast Desert, and Ventura ozone nonattainment areas (NAAs), and delay fumigant limits and allowances in all ozone NAAs except Ventura until 2011.
  

  Notice of Proposed Regulatory Action and Notice of Public Hearing on a Proposed Ozone State Implementation Plan Amendment Regarding Pesticide Emissions in the San Joaquin Valley Nonattainment Area (PDF, 27 kb) (En Español) (PDF, 42 kb)
  Proposed Text (PDF, 21 kb)
  Initial Statement of Reasons (PDF, 55 kb) (En Español) (PDF, 63 kb)
  Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement (Form 399) (PDF, 100 kb)
  Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement - Attachment (PDF, 11 kb)
  Notice of Addition of Document (PDF, 23 kb) - (15-day comment period begins February 12, 2009 and ends February 27, 2009)
  

  Portions of Appendix A, Emission Inventory Output Tables, Revised Draft of Proposed State Strategy for California's 2007 SIP, April 26, 2007 (PDF, 899 kb)
  Final Statement of Reasons (PDF, 97 kb)
  Supplement to the Final Statement of Reasons (PDF, 42 kb)

  Public Hearings

  Public hearings were held to receive oral comments regarding the proposed regulatory changes and associated changes in the State Implementation Plan (PDF, 54 kb).

  Submit your comments on proposed regulations here...

  Comments received during the comment period will be considered and responded to in the Department’s Final Statement of Reasons. It is in the Department’s discretion whether to consider comments that are received after the close of the comment period.

  • Agency Contact:
    Linda Irokawa-Otani, Regulations Coordinator
    Department of Pesticide Regulation
    1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
    Sacramento, California 95812-4015
    Phone: (916) 445-3991
    Fax: (916) 324-1452
    E-mail: dpr08006@cdpr.ca.gov

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• DPR 08-005 Ground Water Protection List (Notice 11/21/08; Comment period closes 1/5/09) The proposed regulatory action pertains to ground water protection and would add pesticides to the Groundwater Protection List of pesticides that have the potential to pollute ground water.
  

  Notice of Proposed Action (PDF, 25 kb)
  Proposed Text (PDF, 21 kb)
  Initial Statement of Reasons (PDF, 27 kb)
  Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement (Form 399) (PDF, 160 kb)
  Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement - Attachment (PDF, 15 kb)
  Final Statement of Reasons (PDF, 25 kb)

  Submit your comments on proposed regulations here...

  Comments received during the comment period will be considered and responded to in the Department’s Final Statement of Reasons. It is in the Department’s discretion whether to consider comments that are received after the close of the comment period.

  • Agency Contact:
    Mark Pepple, Staff Environmental Scientist
    Department of Pesticide Regulation
    1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
    Sacramento, California 95812-4015
    Phone: (916) 324-4086
    E-mail: dpr08005@cdpr.ca.gov

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• DPR 08-002 Notification and Application-Specific Information (Noticed 7/4/08; 45-day comment period extended from 8/18/08 to 12/5/08) The proposed regulatory action would clarify the notification requirements prior to, and after, a pesticide application, including who is to be notified and the persons responsible for providing such notification; revise the requirements for application-specific information for fieldworkers; and clarify the specific activities allowed during the restricted entry interval (REI) and the requirements employers must meet in order to send fieldworkers into the field during the REI.
  
  

  Notice of Proposed Action (PDF, 38 kb) (En Español) (PDF, 41 kb)
  Proposed Text (PDF, 76 kb)
  Initial Statement of Reasons (PDF, 52 kb) (En Español) (PDF, 58 kb)
  Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement (Form 399) (PDF, 130 kb)
  Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period (PDF, 12 kb)
  Notice of Second Extension of the Public Comment Period (PDF, 12 kb)
  Notice of Public Hearing (PDF, 18 kb)
  Notice of Third Extension of Public Comment Period (PDF, 17 kb)
  Notice of Modifications to Text of Proposed Changes (PDF, 102 kb) (15-day comment period begins May 7, 2009 and ends May 22, 2009)
  Text of Modified Regulations (PDF, 183 kb)
  

  Submit your comments on proposed regulations here...

  Comments received during the comment period will be considered and responded to in the Department’s Final Statement of Reasons. It is in the Department’s discretion whether to consider comments that are received after the close of the comment period.

  • Agency Contact:
    Linda Irokawa-Otani, Regulations Coordinator
    Department of Pesticide Regulation
    1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
    Sacramento, California 95812-4015
    Phone: (916) 445-3991
    Fax: (916) 324-1452
    E-mail: dpr08002@cdpr.ca.gov

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