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CT Partners and Their Roles

• Henry Ghiotto
• Quechan Indian Tribe

2
Partners

• Federal Administration EPA and USDA
• CT Programs
• State/Territory Partners SLAs and CES
• Tribal Partners Indian Nation Programs
• Federal Program Partners United States
  Departments of
• Agriculture Animal Plant Health Inspection
  Service, Forest Service
• Interior Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of
  Indian Affairs, National Park Service
• Energy Bonneville Power Admin.

3
Federal Administration EPA and USDA

• EPA presented by Jeaneanne Gettle
• USDA Pesticide Safety Program
• 1964 - funds pesticide safety at 1M
• 1965 - funds one Pesticide Coordinator in each
  state
• 1970 - Pesticide regulatory responsibility shifts
  to EPA

4
Federal Administration USDA

• USDA Pesticide Safety Program
• 1972 - Federal Environmental Pesticide Control
  Act
• Classification of RUPs
• Congress expected EPA to utilize USDA/Extension
  Service for outreach education
• 2M Project Safeguard joint USDA/EPA education
  program for farmers on the safe use of pesticides
  

5
Federal Administration USDA

• USDA Pesticide Applicator Training Program
  (PAT)
• 1974 - EPA finalized 40 CFR Part 171
• Certification of applicators
• 1975 - FIFRA reauthorized
• Training awarded to State Extension Service
• Formula developed for states
• 1978 - FIFRA reauthorized
• 50 cost sharing required by states

6
Federal Administration EPA and USDA

• USDA Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP)
• 2002 name changed, and
• Formula revised, but not implemented
• Performance Planning and Reporting System
  implemented (web-based)
• Funding, people, resources, pesticide safety and
  risk management practice objectives, public
  policy and decision making on pesticide training
• EPA-USDA Interagency Agreement through FY06
  provides mechanism to fund state PSEP with no
  overhead charged still requires 50/50 match

7
State and Territory Partners

• State/Territory Lead Agencies presented already
  
• Cooperating Agencies
• Health
• Structural
• Cooperative Extension Service presented already
  
• Primarily Land Grant Institutions

8
Tribal Partners Indian Nation Programs

• For RUP applicators trained and certified
• May develop implement an EPA approved CT plan
• Plan goes through Department of Interior for
  approval
• EPA Regions provide assistance with plan
  development and approval
• Navajo Nation nearing completion of drafting CT
  plan for approval
• Tribal lands within CO, AZ, UT, NM

9
Tribal Partners Cooperative Agreements with SLA

• Tribes may cooperate with the state
• Use state certification as the basic
  demonstration of competency needed to qualify for
  tribal certification
• Four Cooperative Agreements with SLA
• Shoshonne-Bannock, Cheyenne River Sioux, Rosebud
  Sioux, Three-Affiliated Tribes
• Shoshonne-Bannock adds exam on tribal code
• Tribe and State must agree on how to accomplish
  CT and enforcement
• Cooperative agreement must be incorporated in the
  state's EPA-approved plan

10
Indian Nations Represented on Tribal Pesticide
Program Council

• Aroostook Band of Micmacs Pauma /Yuima Band of
  Mission Indians
• Blackfeet Tribe Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
• Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe Pyramid Lake Paiute
  Tribe
• Colorado River Indian Tribes Quapaw Tribe of
  Oklahoma
• Colville Confederated Tribes Quechan Indian
  Tribe
• Fort Mojave Indian Tribe Salt River
  Pima-Maricopa Indian
• Gila River Indian Community Community
• Jicarilla Apache Nation Santee Sioux Tribe of
  Nebraska
• Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Sherwood Valley
  Rancheria
• Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Shoalwater
  Bay Indian Tribe
• Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Shoshone-Paiute
  Tribes of Duck
• Superior Chippewa Valley Reservation
• Leech Lake Tribe of Minnesota Chippewa Southern
  Ute Indian Tribe
• Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Tohono O'Odham Nation
• Navajo Nation White Earth Band of Minnesota
• Oglala Sioux Tribe Chippewa
• Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Yakama Nation

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Federal CT Program Partners

• Federal Programs
• US Dept. of Agriculture Animal Plant Health
  Inspection Service, Forest Service
• US Dept. of Interior Bureau of Land Management,
  Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service
• US Dept. of Energy Bonneville Power
  Administration
• Valid while applying on Federal lands
• RUP applicators trained and certified

12
Federal CT Program Partners

• Federal agencies may develop and implement an EPA
  approved CT plan
• Through EPA Headquarters
• States may decline federal partners
• States may have additional requirements for
  applicators
• Must be consistent with standards for applicators
  in the state