On January 11<sup>th</sup>, 2022 EPA announced their new Endangered Species Policy stating their intent to evaluate the potential effects of any new conventional pesticide active ingredient on federally threatened or endangered (listed) species, and their designated critical habitats before granting registration. To aid their assessment, EPA has asked registrants to provide “upfront mitigations” to “minimize the effects of incidental take to listed species that could result from use of a pesticide.” In 2021, Compliance Services International (CSI) began working on a project supported by Crop Life America (CLA) to compile resources evaluating pesticide mitigation measures and factors contributing to their effectiveness and ease of implementation. Using those resources, CSI has built a web-based application to help users explore mitigation options to reduce potential pesticide exposure based on the exposure route of concern. The user is then provided a list of mitigation measures, ranked by most effective to least effective where practices have been sufficiently evaluated. CSI and CLA will provide a demonstration of the tool and discuss the strengths, limitations and future development opportunities.

Mitigation strategy tool: A guide for evaluating mitigation measures in FIFRA/ESA consultations

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ACS Fall 2022

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