# Presentation: 332446

## Legislative/Regulatory 

**Legislative/Regulatory **
**Issues Affecting Mosquito Control **

**Notes:**
The objectives of this talk are:
 to give a brief explanation of what AMCA is and how it operates,
 give an update on some the various aspects of the association,
to give you an idea of what we as association want to accomplish,
 and hopefully interest those of you that are not members into becoming members.

## “Big Four”
CWA vs FIFRA
USFWS
Tools in the Tool Box
Funding

- “Big Four”
- CWA vs FIFRA
- USFWS
- Tools in the Tool Box
- Funding

**Notes:**
The objectives of this talk are:
 to give a brief explanation of what AMCA is and how it operates,
 give an update on some the various aspects of the association,
to give you an idea of what we as association want to accomplish,
 and hopefully interest those of you that are not members into becoming members.

## FIFRA
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
Initially passed in 1947
Amended in 1964 requiring Fed. Registration Number and Signal Words 

- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Initially passed in 1947
- Amended in 1964 requiring Fed. Registration Number and Signal Words

- CAUTION

- WARNING

- DANGER

**Notes:**
The Laws and Regs we are working with are the Federal, Insecicide, fungucude, and Rodenticide Act of 1947. Major amendments occured in 1972 that included requiring all pesticides being registered by EPA, that states may also register pesticides, and that users must follow the label or face hreavy fines or imprisonment.

## Significant Amendments to FIFRA in 1972
MUST FOLLOW LABEL 
Violations result in heavy fines and/or imprisonment	
All Pesticides must be registered by EPA
States may register pesticides

- MUST FOLLOW LABEL
- Violations result in heavy fines and/or imprisonment
- All Pesticides must be registered by EPA
- States may register pesticides

## For a Product to be Registered....
There must be scientific evidence (“testing”) to demonstrate:
it will control the pests listed AND
not injure humans, crops, livestock, wildlife, or the environment, and not result in illegal residues in food or feed

- There must be _scientific evidence_ (“testing”) to demonstrate:
- it will control the pests listed AND
- not injure humans, crops, livestock, wildlife, or the environment, and not result in illegal residues in food or feed

**Notes:**
It is important to note that before a pesticidee can be registered, a number of test must be performed, including scientific evidence that the pests it is labeled to control will actually do so, and that the product will not injure humans, crops, livestock, wildlife, or the environment. Use of the product will also not reulst in illegal residues in food or feedstuff. 

## CLEAN WATER ACT
Objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters. 

- Objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.

## Goals:
Zero discharge of pollutants by 1985
Water quality that is "fishable" and "swimmable" by mid-1983

**Goals:**
**Zero discharge of pollutants by 1985**
**Water quality that is "fishable" and "swimmable" by mid-1983**

## 1972:  The Birth of NPDES                   
 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Amendments prohibited discharge of pollutants to waters of the USA from a point source unless authorized by an NPDES permit (excluding agricultural)
Permitting program designed to:
track point sources
monitor discharges from specific sources
require pollutants controls to meet progressively more stringent numeric effluent limitations

** ****National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System**
**Amendments prohibited discharge of pollutants to waters of the USA from a *****point source***** unless authorized by an NPDES permit (excluding agricultural)**
**Permitting program designed to:**
**track point sources**
**monitor discharges from specific sources**
**require pollutants controls to meet progressively more stringent numeric effluent limitations**

## CWA :Recent Court Cases
Talent Irrigation District
 City Of Amherst
No Spray Coalition
US Forest Service

- _CWA :Recent Court Cases_
**Talent Irrigation District**
** ****City Of Amherst**
**No Spray Coalition**
**US Forest Service**

## Talent Irrigation District
Application of an herbicide requires an NPDES Permit

**Talent Irrigation District**
**Application of an herbicide requires an NPDES Permit**

**Notes:**
Leadership

The association is led by the Board of Directors.  The BOD’s sets the policy for the association and makes assignments for the various committees to follow through on.

The BOD’s is composed of 10 Regional Directors, 2 Past Presidents, and 4 Officers for a total of 16 voting members. 

The Regional Directors are composed of one each from the ten regions within the AMCA.  Regional directors are elected by the members within each region.  They serve three year terms and are eligible to be elected and serve up to two consecutive terms.

After a presidents one term in that position the/she will remain as a voting Past President member of the BOD’s for two more years.
The six Officers are elected by the entire membership.  Candidates are chosen by the nomination committee.  The nomination committee is chaired by the immediate past president.  

## City of Amherst and No Spray Coalition

**City of Amherst and No Spray Coalition**

**Notes:**
Leadership

The association is led by the Board of Directors.  The BOD’s sets the policy for the association and makes assignments for the various committees to follow through on.

The BOD’s is composed of 10 Regional Directors, 2 Past Presidents, and 4 Officers for a total of 16 voting members. 

The Regional Directors are composed of one each from the ten regions within the AMCA.  Regional directors are elected by the members within each region.  They serve three year terms and are eligible to be elected and serve up to two consecutive terms.

After a presidents one term in that position the/she will remain as a voting Past President member of the BOD’s for two more years.
The six Officers are elected by the entire membership.  Candidates are chosen by the nomination committee.  The nomination committee is chaired by the immediate past president.  

## US Forest Service  
Application of insecticide by air requires NPDES permit

- US Forest Service
- Application of insecticide by air requires NPDES permit

**Notes:**
Three of the Regional Directors ( in black) are serving their last year of their second term.  A full six years of service on the Board of Directors.

There are three directors (in red lettering) who are in their theirs year of their first term.  All three have agreed to once again run for office and will be on the ballot this fall.

## More of Clean Water Act 
Best Management Practices (“BMP’s”) for Stormwater or surface runoff actually creating public health hazards? 

- More of Clean Water Act
**Best Management Practices (“BMP’s”) for Stormwater or surface runoff actually **_**creating**_** public health hazards? **

## Clean Water Act- 1987
Clean water goals could never be achieved without addressing urban discharges (i.e. stormwater) estimated at >50% of remaining problems
Amendments prohibited discharge of any pollutant to waters of the USA from a non-point source unless authorized by an NPDES permit  

- Clean Water Act- 1987
**Clean water goals could never be achieved without addressing urban discharges (i.e. stormwater) estimated at >50% of remaining problems**
**Amendments prohibited discharge of any pollutant to waters of the USA from a **_***non-point source***_** unless authorized by an NPDES permit**** **** **

## Non-Point Source: 
Diffuse, widespread sources of pollution including urban and industrial areas, roads, highways, parking lots, construction sites, mining, and livestock grazing. NPS pollution can occur any time water runs over land (i.e. stormwater, snowmelt, irrigation) 

Pollutants of concern include trash, sediments, toxic materials, metals, and nutrients (i.e. N and P).

Three Main Targets:  Industrial, Construction, Municipal.

**Diffuse, widespread sources of pollution including urban and industrial areas, roads, highways, parking lots, construction sites, mining, and livestock grazing. NPS pollution can occur any time water runs over land (i.e. stormwater, snowmelt, irrigation) **
**Pollutants of concern include trash, sediments, toxic materials, metals, and nutrients (i.e. N and P).**
**Three Main Targets:  Industrial, Construction, Municipal.**

## NPDES Stormwater Permits
Do not contain numeric effluent limitations for water quality
Require a reduction in runoff pollution
Require elimination of dry-weather discharges
Permit must identify Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce or prevent discharge of pollutants into receiving waters

- Do not contain numeric effluent limitations for water quality
- Require a reduction in runoff pollution
- Require elimination of dry-weather discharges
- Permit must identify Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce or prevent discharge of pollutants into receiving waters

## “BMP” Best Management Practice.
Involves the structural, nonstructural and managerial techniques recognized to be the most effective and practical means to reduce surface and ground-water contamination while still allowing the productive use of resources.

**Involves the structural, nonstructural and managerial techniques recognized to be the most effective and practical means to reduce surface and ground-water contamination while still allowing the productive use of resources.**

## BMPs and Public Health
Certain BMPs potentially create a public health hazard by increasing habitat availability for aquatic stages of mosquitoes, and by creating harborage, food, and moisture for other reservoir and nuisance species

**Certain BMPs potentially create a public health hazard by increasing habitat availability for aquatic stages of mosquitoes, and by creating harborage, food, and moisture for other reservoir and nuisance species**

## Treatment BMP TechnologiesAll Shapes and Sizes!
Extended Detention Basins
Media Filter Devices
Biofiltration Swales and Strips
Infiltration Basins and Trenches
Permanent Ponds / Wetlands
Oil-Water Separators
Proprietary Devices

**Extended Detention Basins**
**Media Filter Devices**
**Biofiltration Swales and Strips**
**Infiltration Basins and Trenches**
**Permanent Ponds / Wetlands**
**Oil-Water Separators**
**Proprietary Devices**

## -Biofiltration 

- -Biofiltration
- Swales
- -“wetlands”
- -Extended
- Retention basins

## Two Primary Factors Contribute to Mosquito Production in BMPs

**1)  Design**
**2) Maintenance**

## AMCA attempting to address CWA issue by:
1) Members have testified at Congressional Hearings outlining problem with controlling WNV under current CWA direction
2) AMCA has filed a Petition directly to USEPA asking for regulatory rule making clarifying position of FIFRA vs CWA

**1) Members have testified at Congressional Hearings outlining problem with controlling WNV under current CWA direction**
**2) AMCA has filed a Petition directly to USEPA asking for regulatory rule making clarifying position of FIFRA vs CWA**

## USFWS and Mosquito Control
Compatible Uses
Nuisance vs. Public Health 
Treatment vs. No treatment unless “Public Health” issue

_**USFWS and Mosquito Control**_
**Compatible Uses**
**Nuisance vs. Public Health**** **
**Treatment vs. No treatment unless “Public Health” issue**

**Notes:**
William Zawicki served as president 1999 -2000
David Dame served as president 2000-2001

Following their term as president 

## “Tools of the Trade” 
Food Quality Protection Act
Reregistration of all products
OP’s
Pyrethroids
Is there sufficient data to retain uses?

- _“__Tools of the Trade”_
- Food Quality Protection Act
- Reregistration of all products
- OP’s
- Pyrethroids
- Is there sufficient data to retain uses?

**Notes:**
William Zawicki served as president 1999 -2000
David Dame served as president 2000-2001

Following their term as president 

## FUNDING ISSUES
California faces $30 Billion Dollar Deficit
HR 	342 (MASH Bill)
Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health
46 Cosponsors to Date
Funding MAY be available, but how should it be distributed? 

- _FUNDING ISSUES_
**California faces $30 Billion Dollar Deficit**
- _HR __	__342 (MASH Bill)_
**Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health**
**46 Cosponsors to Date**
**Funding MAY be available, but how should it be distributed? **

- State and Federal Debt

- ?

**Notes:**
William Zawicki served as president 1999 -2000
David Dame served as president 2000-2001

Following their term as president