Environmental Protection Agency Docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0543 Proposed Rule

2019-23718: Pesticides; Agricultural Worker Protection Standard; Revision of the Application Exclusion Zone Requirements

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Summary

EPA is proposing changes to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS) to simplify the application exclusion zone (AEZ) requirements. The proposed changes described in this document are the only changes EPA is currently planning to make to the WPS provisions that are now in effect.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

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