Legislative News and Resources

The Who's My Legislator? service is an online tool where the public at-large can determine what legislators represent them. Users can enter their home address or use map based navigation to see their Virginia House and Senate representatives, as well as those in the U.S. House and Senate.

• List of VA certified pesticide applicators (look up your recertification date by clicking on the "Virginia Certified Commercial/Registered Technician Applicators" PDF or CSV and searching for your name)
• Certification Renewals and Exams
• Product Registration Information
• Pollinator Protection Plans and Software
• many more links to pesticide relevant information

Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) General Permit Regulation for Discharges Resulting from the Application of Pesticides to Surface Waters

Permit expires Feb 29, 2024; stay tuned for updates

• EPA reviews each registered pesticide at least every 15 years to ensure that each pesticide can carry out its intended function(s) without creating unreasonable adverse effects to human health and the environment.
• Schedule typically updated annually; going forward will be updated quarterly

Endangered Species Protection Bulletins are a part of EPA's Endangered Species Protection Program. Bulletins set forth geographically specific pesticide use limitations for the protection of threatened and endangered (listed) species and their designated critical habitat.  

AMCA members have access to various legislative news.

 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the Proposed Registration Review Interim Decisions (PIDs) for dicrotophos and dimethoate, as well as an Interim Registration Review Decision (ID) for tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP), three organophosphate (OP) pesticides.  Read more from the link below.