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Office of Inspector General

Report: EPA’s Oversight of State Pesticide Inspections Needs Improvement to Better Ensure Safeguards for Workers, Public and Environment Are Enforced

Report #15-P-0156, May 15, 2015.

What We Found

Improvements in the EPA's inspection report review process will increase assurance that state inspections are preventing unreasonable risk to human health and the environment from pesticides.

Report Materials

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Report At A Glance (PDF)(1 pg, 242 K)
Full Report (PDF)(21 pp, 751 K)