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• Urban Surface Water Protection Regulations (effective July 19, 2012)
  The regulations identify pesticides that have a high potential to contaminate surface water in outdoor nonagricultural settings, and require pest control businesses, including maintenance gardeners, that apply these pesticides to take actions to minimize that contamination.
  • DPR Surface Water Protection Regulations 3 CCR Sections 6970 and 6972 (and new definitions added to 3 CCR §6000) Effective July 19, 2012. Presentation by Enforcement Branch. Presentation 59, PDF (4.6 mb)
• Regulatory Issues
  New regulations and reevaluation notices to registrants to mitigate surface water contamination from pesticide use.
• DPR Comment Letters
  • US EPA Aquatic ecological risk assessment for imidacloprid, PDF (87 kb)
  • US EPA Ecological risk assessment and registration review. PDF (315 kb)

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Anson Main, PhD.
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Phone: (916) 322-0496
E-mail: Anson.Main@cdpr.ca.gov