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Pesticide Registration Improvement Act 5
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Grants are awarded to support education, outreach, training, and technical assistance to farm workers on how to prevent or mitigate pesticide-related illness and injury; to health care providers on recognizing and treating pesticide-related illness and injury; and to organizations to give technical assistance to grant recipients or applicants of such grants. Measures may include an increase in awareness of how to minimize, prevent, or mitigate occupational exposure to pesticides, and treat pesticide-related illness and injury; the number of and/or reach of projects on the safe use of pesticides by agricultural pesticide handlers; and awareness and reach of technical assistance to the public on information about pesticides, their uses, risks, and reporting exposures. In FY2025, priorities will continue to include: training and educating farm workers with respect to farm workers' rights relating to pesticide safety and on the agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS) regulation at 40 CFR part 170; developing new informational materials, training modules, and innovative delivery methods for both; developing informational materials and providing technical assistance and training to health care providers on the recognition, treatment, and management of pesticide-related injuries and illnesses; developing methods on the outreach and delivery of such materials and technical assistance; and providing technical assistance to recipients and potential recipients concerning the grant application process, drafting grant applications and compliance with grant management and reporting requirements.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
EPA awarded two cooperative agreements in September 2024 for $40,000 each. The project and budget periods began on October 1, 2024.
On October 1, 2024, EPA announced three new funding opportunities to support pesticide safety education for farmworkers, training for health care providers to better address pesticide-related illness, and technical assistance to support managing these grants. A total of almost $10 million will be awarded to at least four grantees to carry out this work over five years. Information on these awards can be found at: https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/pesticide-cooperative-agreements.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
