Compliance Monitoring Strategy for Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
The Compliance Monitoring Strategy (CMS) for Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) provides a multi-year framework and national guidance for the FIFRA compliance assurance program to achieve the goals of FIFRA compliance monitoring and enforcement. Specifically, this CMS is intended to:
- Promote an understanding of, and compliance with, minimum program requirements;
- Promote national consistency in program implementation while acknowledging and allowing appropriate flexibility;
- Provide a strategy for setting priorities that focus on the greatest risks to health and the environment;
- Articulate guiding principles of the strategic approach to help EPA headquarters, regions, states, and tribes allocate resources across the FIFRA compliance assurance program;
- Provide inspection frequency goals;
- Clarify the intersections of compliance monitoring for the ongoing FIFRA core program, the national areas of focus, and state or tribal priorities;
- Enhance the use of data collected for priority setting and inspection targeting; and
- Clarify requirements for reporting national program results.