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Term	Acronym	Vocabulary	Vocabulary Type	Definitions
Air, Pesticides & Toxics Branch II	APTB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Air, Pesticides, & Toxics Management Division	APTMD		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Antimicrobial Pesticides		Web Taxonomy-Substances	Taxonomy
Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances	OPPTS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Assistant Administrator/Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances	AA/OPTS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Biochemical Pesticides		PRIA Fee Determination Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Biochemical Pesticides are substances that: (1) are naturally occurring chemicals or are synthetically derived equivalents; (2) have a history of exposure to humans and the environment demonstrating minimal toxicity, or in the case of a synthetically-derived biochemical pesticides, are equivalent to a naturally occurring chemical that have such a history; and (3) have a nontoxic mode of action to the target pest(s). Biochemical pesticides include, but are not limited to: (1) semiochemicals (insect pheromones and kairomones), (2) natural plant and insect regulators, (3) naturally occurring repellents and attractants, and (4) enzymes. Biochemical pesticides include substances, such as insect sex pheromones, which interfere with mating, as well as various scented plant extracts that attract insect pests to traps. Because it is sometimes difficult to determine whether a substance meets the criteria for classification as a biochemical pesticide, EPA has established the Biochemical Classification Committee to make such decisions.
Biochemical Pesticides Branch	BPB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Biochemical Pesticides Branch	BPB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Biological pesticides		Terms of Environment	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Certain microorganism, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa that are effective in controlling pests. These agents usually do not have toxic effects on animals and people and do not leave toxic or persistent chemical residues in the environment.
biological pesticides		Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Certain microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa that are effective in controlling target pests. These agents usually do not have toxic effects on animals and people and do not leave toxic or persistent chemical residues in the environment.
Biopesticides		Web Taxonomy-Substances	Taxonomy
Biopesticides		PRIA Fee Determination Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition 1: Certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals. For example, canola oil and baking soda have pesticidal applications and are considered biopesticides. At the end of 2001, there were approximately 195 registered biopesticide active ingredients and 780 products. Definition 2: Biopesticides fall into three major classes: (1) Microbial pesticides consist of a microorganism (e.g., a bacterium, fungus, virus or protozoan) as the active ingredient. Microbial pesticides can control many different kinds of pests, although each separate active ingredient is relatively specific for its target pest[s]. For example, there are fungi that control certain weeds, and other fungi that kill specific insects ...; (2) Plant-Incorporated-Protectants (PIPs) are pesticidal substances that plants produce from genetic material that has been added to the plant. For example, scientists can take the gene for the Bt pesticidal protein, and introduce the gene into the plant's own genetic material. Then the plant, instead of the Bt bacterium, manufactures the substance that destroys the pest. The protein and its genetic material, but not the plant itself, are regulated by EPA; (3) Biochemical pesticides are naturally occurring substances that control pests by non-toxic mechanisms. Conventional pesticides, by contrast, are generally synthetic materials that directly kill or inactivate the pest. Biochemical pesticides include substances, such as insect sex pheromones, that interfere with mating, as well as various scented plant extracts that attract insect pests to traps. Because it is sometimes difficult to determine whether a substance meets the criteria for classification as a biochemical pesticide, EPA has established a special committee to make such decisions.
Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division	BPPD		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division	BPPD		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Conventional Pesticides		Pesticides Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition 1: Pesticides that are chemicals or other substances developed and produced primarily or only for use as pesticides. The term is generally used in reference to active ingredients. An example is DDT, which was developed and used almost exclusively as a pesticide. Definition 2: Unlike a biological pesticide, any man-made chemical, which can be used to kill pests.
Ensure Safe Use of Pesticides		Web Taxonomy-Functions	Taxonomy	Definition: Activities that ensure the safe and beneficial use of pesticides, insecticides, rodenticides, and fungicides. [EPA BRM]
Federal Environmental Pesticides Control Act	FEPCA		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Microbial Pesticides		Pesticides Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Microorganisms that kill or inhibit pests, including insects or other microorganisms. Sometimes microorganisms get rid of pests simply by growing larger in numbers, using up the pests' food supply, and invading the pests' environment.
Microbial Pesticides		PRIA Fee Determination Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Microorganisms that produce a pesticidal effect that are: (1) eukaryotic microorganisms including, but not limited to, protozoa, algae, and fungi; (2) prokaryotic microorganisms, including, but not limited to, bacteria; or (3) autonomous replicating microscopic elements, including, but not limited to, viruses. Microbial pesticides can control many different kinds of pests, although each separate active ingredient is relatively specific for its target pest(s). For example, there are fungi that control certain weeds and other fungi that kill specific insects. The most widely used microbial pesticides are subspecies and strains of Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. Each strain of this bacterium produces a different mix of proteins and specifically kills one or a few related species of insect larvae. While some Bt's control moth larvae found on plants, other Bt's are specific for larvae of flies and mosquitoes. The target insect species are determined by whether the particular Bt produces a protein that can bind to a larval gut receptor, thereby causing the insect larvae to starve.
microbial pesticides		Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment	Thesaurus	Definition: Microorganisms that kill or inhibit pests, including insects or other microorganisms. Sometimes microorganisms get rid of pests simply by growing larger in numbers, using up the pests' food supply, and invading the pests' environment. [EPA 2005e]
Microbial Pesticides Branch	MPB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
NAICS 325320: Pesticides manufacturing		Web Taxonomy-Industries	Taxonomy
Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances	OPTS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, U.S. EPA	OPTS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances	OPPTS	Superfund Acronyms	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: See http://www.epa.gov/oppts/. EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substance (OPPTS) plays an important role in protecting public health and the environment from potential risk from toxic chemicals for now and for generations to come. OPPTS promotes pollution prevention and the public's right to know about chemical risks. Dealing with emerging issues like endocrine disrupters and lead poisoning prevention are top priorities.
Office of Toxics & Pesticides			Abbreviation and Acronym List
Organophosphate Pesticides		America's Children and the Environment Terms	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A group of approximately 40 closely related pesticides that affect functioning of the nervous system. Examples include chlorpyrifos, phosmet, and methyl parathion.
Persistent Pesticides		Terms of Environment	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Pesticides that do not break down chemically or break down very slowly and remain in the environment after a growing season.
Pesticides		Universal Waste: Glossary of Regulatory Terms	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, other than any article that: (1) Is a new animal drug under FFDCA section 201(w), or (2) Is an animal drug that has been determined by regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services not to be a new animal drug, or (3) Is an animal feed under FFDCA section 201(x) that bears or contains any substances described by paragraph (1) or (2) of this definition. See 40 CFR 273.9 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title40-vol28/xml/CFR-2012-title40-vol28-sec273-9.xml).
Pesticides		Estuaries Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Chemicals used to destroy or control plant, fungus, or animal pests.
Pesticides		Web Taxonomy-Substances	Taxonomy	Definition: Substances or mixture there of intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. Also, any substance or mixture intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. [Terms of Env]
Pesticides		Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Chemical compounds used to control insects and other organisms that may reduce agricultural productivity; most are toxic.
Pesticides		How's My Waterway Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Pesticides, such as herbicides and insecticides, include a variety of chemicals used to manage unwanted pests or weeds. In water, pesticides can affect the health of aquatic insects, fish, plants, and animals exposed through feeding or contact.
Pesticides		Chesapeake Bay Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A general term that describes the chemical substances used to destroy or control insect or plant pests. Many pesticides are manufactured and do not occur naturally in the environment. Others are natural toxins that are extracted from plants and animals.
Pesticides Analytical Transport Solution	PESTAN		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Analytical Transport Solution	PATS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides & Asbestos Programs Branch			Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides & Toxic Substances Branch	PTSB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides and Toxic Substances Division	PTSD		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides & Toxic Substances Law Office	PTSLO		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides & Toxics Branch	PTB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides and Toxics Enforcement Division	PTED		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides/Asbestos Programs & Enforcement Branch	PAPEB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Branch	PB		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Document Management System	PDMS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides in Groundwater Strategy	PIGS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Industry		Web Taxonomy-Industries	Taxonomy
Pesticides Management		Web Taxonomy-Regulatory & Industrial Topics	Taxonomy	Definition: Regulation of the manufacture, use and sale of Pesticides by EPA and state governments.
Pesticides Manufacturing		Web Taxonomy-Industries	Taxonomy
Pesticides Product Information System	PPIS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Programs Information Center	PPIC		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Regulatory Action Tracking System	PRATS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Research	HEPS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Risk Assessment		Web Taxonomy-Functions	Taxonomy	Definition: Activities to accurately identify the risks of new and existing pesticides and accurately characterize these risks through the use of sound data and science. [EPA BRM]
Pesticides Risk Management		Web Taxonomy-Functions	Taxonomy	Definition: Activities to identify cost effective requirements to ensure the safe use of pesticides through regulatory and non-regulatory means, and where necessary to prevent the use of pesticides that exhibit unacceptable risk. [EPA BRM]
Pesticides Risk Mitigation		Web Taxonomy-Functions	Taxonomy	Definition: Activities to support clear understanding and effective use and control practices by pesticides applicators and by other professionals and non-professionals engaged in the end use of pesticides. [EPA BRM]
Pesticides, Toxics and Air Team	PTAT		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pesticides Web Utility	PEWU		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Pollution Prevention, Pesticides, & Toxics Program	PPPTP		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Prevention, Pesticides, & Toxic Substances, Assistant Administrator for	OPPTS		Abbreviation and Acronym List
RCRA Waste Management, UST and Pesticides Section			Abbreviation and Acronym List
Reduced Risk Pesticides		PRIA Fee Determination Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: FIFRA section 3(c) (10) provides for expediting the review of certain types of applications for registration. This program is referred to as the Conventional Reduced Risk Pesticide Program (https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/conventional-reduced-risk-pesticide-program). The Reduced Risk program expedites the review and regulatory decision-making process of conventional pesticides that meet one or more of the following criteria: (1) Reduce the risks of pesticides to human health. (2) Reduce the risks of pesticides to nontarget organisms. (3) Reduce the potential for contamination of groundwater, surface water, or other valued environmental resources. (4) Broaden the adoption of integrated pest management strategies, or make such strategies more effective. The goal of this program is to expedite registrations for pesticides considered to be reduced risk. This ensures that these reduced risk pesticide uses get into the marketplace and are available to growers and users as soon as possible. Expected participants in this program are the chemical companies and state or federal agencies that submit to the Agency initial registration and amended registration applications for pesticide products. This program does not apply to biological or antimicrobial pesticides, which are handled through separate expediting processes.
Reduced-Risk Pesticides		Pesticides Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: These are pesticides which: (1) reduce pesticide risks to human health; (2) reduce pesticide risks to nontarget organisms; (3) reduce the potential for contamination of valued, environmental resources, or (4) broaden adoption of IPM or makes it more effective. More detailed information can be found on the headquarters´ reduced-risk pesticides program home page (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/regulating/laws/fqpa/).
Restricted-Use Pesticides		Pesticides Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A pesticide that can be sold to or used by only certified applicators.
Safer Pesticides		Pesticides Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: Pesticides designated as "safer" (or "reduced-risk") by EPA due to favorable characteristics affecting health or environmental risks, resistance management and integrated pest management. Safer pesticides may be conventional pesticides posing less risk or be biopesticides with unique modes of action, low use volume, lower toxicity, target species specificity or natural occurrence.
Suspended and Canceled Pesticides	SAC		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Toxics & Pesticides Branch	TOPE		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Toxics and Pesticides Management System	TOPSY		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Toxics, Pesticides and Drinking Water Compliance Section			Abbreviation and Acronym List
Underground Storage Tanks, Asbestos, Lead & Pesticides Branch			Abbreviation and Acronym List
Waste, Pesticides, and Toxics Division	WPTD		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Waste, Pesticides, & Toxics Division	WPTD		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Water, Wetlands, & Pesticides Division	WWPD		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Worker Protection Standards for Agricultural Pesticides	WPSAP		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Emergency Condition (Requires Pesticides)		EPA EV-Environmental Events-Emergencies & Disasters	Taxonomy	Definition: Urgent, non-routine situation that requires the use of a pesticide(s) and shall be deemed to exist when:(1) No effective pesticides are available under the Act that have labeled uses registered for control of the pest under the conditions of the emergency; and (2) No economically or environmentally feasible alternative practices which provide adequate control are available; and(3) The situation:(i) Involves the introduction or dissemination of an invasive species or a pesticide new to or not theretofore known to be widely prevalent or distributed within or throughout the United States and its territories; or(ii) Will present significant risks to human health; or(iii) Will present significant risks to threatened or endangered species, beneficial organisms, or the environment; or(iv) Will cause significant economic loss due to:(A) An outbreak or an expected outbreak of a pest; or(B) A change in plant growth or development caused by unusual environmental conditions where such change can be rectified by the use of a pesticide(s). [40 CFR 166.3 (CFR 2013)]
Pesticides Production		EPA EV-Commercial Processes-Manufacturing Processes	Taxonomy	Definition: To manufacture, prepare, propagate, compound, or process any pesticide, including any pesticide produced pursuant to section 5 of the Act, and any active ingredient or device, or to package, repackage, label, relabel, or otherwise change the container of any pesticide or device.[40 CFR 165.3 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 167.3 (CFR 2013)]

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