Office of the Indiana State Chemist (OISC) is the pesticide state lead agency (SLA) for Indiana. OISC, like other SLAs, is charged with implementing pesticide label compliance in the states. Over the past couple of decades, a variety of challenges related to pesticide labeling and compliance for corn and soybean uses have required attention, but unique challenges associated with endangered species protection have recently posed some of the thorniest difficulties. OISC staff have been aware of and have been monitoring potential Endangered Species Act (ESA) impacts on the federal pesticide product registration process for well over twenty years. In that time, the consultation processes established between U.S. EPA and the federal wildlife and marine agencies to implement ESA protections through product labeling have been initiated and revised on numerous occasions. Most of those efforts have resulted only in sporadic and spotty ESA pesticide use mitigation measures on product labels. However, recent pesticide registration and reregistration actions by EPA for major agricultural pesticides may have changed all of that. Many of the recent label mitigation measures have come as a surprise to many SLAs. Many SLAs are currently scratching their heads about how and if those new label requirements can be successfully implemented and monitored for compliance.

Did state pesticide regulatory agencies see ESA label mitigation measures coming and do they have a plan for ensuring compliance?

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