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Planning and Improvement

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As part of an organization-wide effort to incorporate continuous quality improvement into California’s pesticide use enforcement program, the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and the County Agricultural Commissioners (CACs) developed a cycle that includes state and local program review, planning, implementation, and evaluation. DPR’s guidance represents a simplified approach in targeting core enforcement program priorities and evaluating the effectiveness of county programs. In turn, county work plans identify state, regional, and local compliance problems, emerging issues, and measurable solutions based on available resources. Jointly developed performance standards are used by DPR to evaluate the effectiveness of the county's enforcement program.

• Pesticide use enforcement program planning and evaluation guidance describes DPR’s core pesticide enforcement program elements and priorities carried out by the county agricultural commissioners.
  • County enforcement work plans
• Enforcement Branch operational plan (PDF, 74 kb) is part of DPR’s functional operational plan; scroll through the operational plan until you see the section on Enforcement.
• Statewide pesticide regulatory activities summary reports provide annual statistics on statewide and individual county enforcement workload.

For content questions contact:
Roy Rutz
1001 I Street, PO Box 4015
Sacramento, California 95814-4015
E-mail: rrutz@cdpr.ca.gov