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Pesticide Enforcement in Oregon: Compliance Monitoring and Legislative Updates

Dive into the Pesticides Program at Oregon Department of Agriculture with emphasis on investigations, compliance monitoring, legislative updates, and stakeholder outreach to prevent pesticide drift to vineyards. Learn about key initiatives and enforcement responses in FY 2015.

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Pesticide Enforcement in Oregon: Compliance Monitoring and Legislative Updates

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  1. Pesticide Investigation and Enforcement Oregon Department of Agriculture Pesticides Program Dale Mitchell, Pesticides Program Manager

  2. Presentation Overview • Pesticides Program Overview w/2015 Update • 2015 Legislative Session w/Pesticide Focus • Co-existence, Status Update • Wrap Up & Q&A

  3. Pesticides Division Programs • Pesticide Product Registration – 13,000+ • Licensing & Certification • Water Quality Program – PSP & WQMT • Endangered Species Program • Fertilizer Program • Pesticide Analytical Response Center • Compliance/Enforcement 532 Cases Initiated

  4. Routine Compliance Monitoring • Operator/Applicator Record Inspection (ARI) 79 • Dealer Record Review (DRI) 31 • Market Place Inspection (MPI) 52 • Agricultural Use Follow Up/Observation (AUF/AUO) 30 • Non-agricultural Use Follow Up/Observation (NUF/NUO) 181 • Producer Establishment Inspection (PEI) 6 • Experimental Use Inspection (EUP) 2 • Import/Export Inspections (IMP/EXP) 0

  5. Enforcement Responses FY 2015 • Civil Penalties: 32 • Notices of Violation: 70 • Stop Sale, Use or Removal Order: 3 • Crop Seizures or Embargoes: 2 • Case Referred to EPA: 6 • Letters of Advisement, Non-Enforcement • Contested Case Administrative Proceeding

  6. Legislative Update - 2015 • 155 Days in Session • 2,641 Bills Introduced • Pesticide related bills introduced = 15 • HB 3549 – 60 ft. buffers for schools & dwellings for forestry aerial applications • HB 3549 – Civil Penalties doubled • HB 3549 – *New License & Exam for Aerial Applicators

  7. Legislative Update 2015 • HB 3549 – Loss of applicator license for failure to pay CP • HB 3549 – Re-Testing of applicators for violations • HB 3549 – Four new investigators, One Case Reviewer • HB 3549 – Pesticide Reg. Fee $320 • HB 3549 – New aerial applicator Training requirements • HB 3549 – Cost $2.410 million

  8. Education & Outreach Efforts with Stakeholders • Awareness of changes • Involvement in Legislative Process, as Individual or Organization • Provide comments to Rule Making process • Staying connected with ODA Pesticides Program

  9. Preventing and Reducing Pesticide Drift to Vineyards, Co-existence November 25, 2014 Oregon Department of Agriculture

  10. Summary • Recognize drift from herbicides that mimic plant growth signals cause significant damage to grapes plants • Organize meeting with agricultural stakeholders to pursue a cooperative solution • The stakeholders goal is to effectively change the behavior of pesticide applicators to prevent/reduce drift to vineyards. • Meetings of the group start in January of 2014 • Members of the group have already taken steps to bring this to the attention of their organizations members and to share with other groups • Ready to launch strategies to comprehensively prevent and reduce drift to vineyards

  11. Stakeholder Outreach

  12. Preventing and reducing pesticide drift to vineyardsWorking Group: Goal, Tasks, and Strategies Task • Education and Outreach: Working group objectives • Improve understanding of plant development and sensitive growth periods • Increase understanding of pesticide volatility and drift

  13. Education and Outreach: Working group strategies • Calendars • Plant developmental sensitivity • Planting, flowering, harvesting • Stakeholder events and meetings • Printed materials • ODA brochure • Stakeholder publications • Robo calls

  14. Key - grape - wheat - weeds - fruit trees Timelines bud break flowering fruit set ripening bud break flowering fruit set ripening harvest _____________________________________________________________________________ Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Plant spring harvest varieties Spring/summer weeds i.e. roadside, right-of-way, residential Fall/winter weeds i.e. roadside, right-of-way, residential

  15. Preventing and reducing pesticide drift to vineyards

  16. Thank YouQuestions ? • Dale L. Mitchell • Pesticide Program Manager • Natural Resource Policy Area • Oregon Department of Agriculture • 635 Capitol Street NE • Salem, Oregon 97301 • (503) 986-4646 • E-mail : dmitchell@oda.state.or.us

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