3-373. Annual pesticide report
The associate director shall submit an annual report to the director, the governor
and the legislature on or before October 1 each year containing the following information
for the preceding fiscal year relating to the division's activities under this article:
1. The number of full-time employee positions in the division that are authorized
and filled for regulating pesticides as of June 30.
2. A brief summary of rules proposed or adopted during the reporting period.
3. The number of persons having each type of permit, certificate, license and
registration issued as of June 30.
4. The number of persons whose permits, certificates, licenses or registrations
were revoked, suspended or otherwise altered in status with brief statements of the
reasons for the revocation, suspension or alteration.
5. The number of written complaints and other communications received by the
division which allege a violation of this article or a rule adopted under this article.
6. A summary, by specific category, of the substance of the complaints and
communications referred to in paragraph 5 of this section and, for each specific
category, the responses or dispositions of those complaints.
7. A compilation, based upon reports filed in compliance with rules adopted
pursuant to section 3-363, of the amount, frequency and type of pesticides used in this
state by specific categories of acute toxicity and including but not limited to
identification of pesticides which:
(a) Are known by the administrator of the federal environmental protection agency
to require special application procedures to protect endangered species or which contain
ingredients or produce degradation products that are carcinogenic, mutagenic or
teratogenic.
(b) Are extremely hazardous substances listed pursuant to section 302 of the
superfund amendments and reauthorization act or title III of the clean air act as
amended.
(c) Have extended reentry intervals of greater than forty-eight hours for worker
protection.
8. Based on reports received from pesticide users and reports prepared pursuant to
paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of this section, specific recommendations regarding statutory or
administrative changes to improve pesticide regulation in this state considering
environmental and public health and safety factors.
9. Any other information which the associate director believes is useful in
reviewing the division's activities.
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