Compliance and Enforcement Management

August 28-31, 2023
Denver, CO

Aerial pesticide application over a field

Audience

State, territory, or tribal pesticide compliance and enforcement program managers, and experienced staff that work under a FIFRA cooperative agreement.

Course Goal

Increase knowledge of current and emerging pesticide compliance and enforcement issues to improve effectiveness of state, tribal, and territory pesticide enforcement programs.

Information to be covered in this course includes:

  • Tribal and state enforcement communication and coordination
  • Coregulator pesticide enforcement and compliance monitoring successes and challenges
  • Enforcement considerations and challenges related to label language
  • Emerging pesticide enforcement issues and hot topics

Nominations and Participants

Nominations

Nominations must be submitted electronically. It is best to prepare your justification for selection before starting your nomination application.

Before starting the nomination form, please have the following ready:

  • The nominee’s name, job title, agency or tribe, email, number of years working in pesticide regulatory programs, and number of years in nominee’s current position.
  • Responses to the following questions:
    • What are the nominee’s job responsibilities and how are they relevant to the course?
    • Why is this training essential to the nominee’s job responsibilities? Submit 1-2 sentences describing 2 topics you wish to see offered during the course.

Nominations for the Compliance and Enforcement Management course open Thursday, April 27, 2023 and close Thursday May 25, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time). The PREP Team will make selections no later than Thursday, June 8, 2023 based on how closely the nominees fit the target audience and why the training is essential to their job responsibilities.

Nominations have closed for this course.

Participants

Planning Group

  • Toby Primbs – Oregon Department of Agriculture
  • Leigh Gibson – Arkansas Department of Agriculture
  • Patrick Farquhar – North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • Camilo Perez – Quechan Indian Tribe
  • Matt Lopez – Colorado Department of Agriculture
  • Rob Hofstetter – Maryland Department of Agriculture
  • Chad Schulze – US EPA Region 10
  • Amos Presler – US EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
  • Michael Bauman – US EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

 

Travel and Lodging Information

State, Territory, Tribal Participants

Lodging, flight, and ground transportation will be arranged and paid for by the PREP Team.

More information regarding travel and lodging will be shared via email after accepted participants complete the course registration form. Please pay close attention to your email, including your junk/spam folders for this information. Your quick response to these emails is vital to ensuring you receive your preferred travel arrangements.

EPA Participants

EPA Participants are responsible for reserving their own flights and ground transportation. Please plan to arrive on Sunday, August 27th and depart on Friday, September 1st. The PREP team has reserved hotel rooms for EPA participants, however, EPA participants are responsible for paying for their own room prior to the start of the course. EPA participants must also pay a registration fee of $450.
More information regarding travel, lodging, and the registration fee will be shared via email after accepted participants complete the course registration form. Please pay close attention to your email, including your junk/spam folders for this information. Your quick response to these emails is vital to ensuring you receive your preferred travel arrangements.