{"abstract":"EPA is finalizing updates and revisions to the existing worker protection regulation for pesticides. This final rule will enhance the protections provided to agricultural workers, pesticide handlers, and other persons under the Worker Protection Standard (WPS) by strengthening elements of the existing regulation, such as training, notification, pesticide safety and hazard communication information, use of personal protective equipment, and the providing of supplies for routine washing and emergency decontamination. EPA expects this final rule to prevent unreasonable adverse effects from exposure to pesticides among agricultural workers and pesticide handlers, vulnerable groups (such as minority and low-income populations, child farmworkers, and farmworker families) and other persons who may be on or near agricultural establishments, and to mitigate exposures that do occur. In order to reduce compliance burdens for family-owned farms, in the final rule EPA has expanded the existing definition of \"immediate family\" and continued the existing exemption from many provisions of the WPS for owners and members of their immediate families.","action":"Final rule.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY","name":"Environmental Protection Agency","id":145,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/environmental-protection-agency","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/145","parent_id":null,"slug":"environmental-protection-agency"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2015/11/02/2015-25970.html","cfr_references":[{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":170,"title":40}],"citation":"80 FR 67496","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":null,"correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"This final rule is effective January 1, 2016. Agricultural employers and handler employers will be required to comply with most of the new requirements on January 2, 2017, as provided in 40 CFR 170.2. Agricultural employers and handler employers will be required to comply with certain new requirements on January 1, 2018 or later, as provided in 40 CFR 170.311(a)(3), 170.401(c)(3), 170.501(c)(3) and 170.505(b).","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":["EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0184","FRL-9931-81"],"dockets":[],"document_number":"2015-25970","effective_on":"2016-01-01","end_page":67574,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"explanation":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2015/11/02/2015-25970.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/11/02/2015-25970/pesticides-agricultural-worker-protection-standard-revisions","images":{"ER02NO15.000":{"large":"https://img.federalregister.gov/ER02NO15.000/ER02NO15.000_large.png","original_size":"https://img.federalregister.gov/ER02NO15.000/ER02NO15.000_original_size.png"}},"images_metadata":{"ER02NO15.000":{"large":{"identifier":"ER02NO15.000","content_type":"image/png","size":21975,"width":453,"sha":"482f2653c05d4a49eda8b0a310297c41","url":"https://img.federalregister.gov/ER02NO15.000/ER02NO15.000_large.png","height":583},"original_size":{"identifier":"ER02NO15.000","content_type":"image/png","size":33731,"width":1611,"sha":"d92dc65562bc70499327d452d004dcbf","url":"https://img.federalregister.gov/ER02NO15.000/ER02NO15.000_original_size.png","height":2073}}},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2015-25970?publication_date=2015-11-02","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2015-11-02/2015-25970/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":79,"page_views":{"count":20782,"last_updated":"2026-04-19 00:15:04 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-11-02/pdf/2015-25970.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2015-25970.pdf?1446209121","publication_date":"2015-11-02","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2015/11/02/2015-25970.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{"2070-AJ22":{"issue":"201504","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/regulations/2070-AJ22/pesticides-agricultural-worker-protection-standard-revisions","title":"Pesticides; Agricultural Worker Protection Standard Revisions","xml_url":"http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201504&RIN=2070-AJ22&operation=OPERATION_EXPORT_XML","priority_category":"Other Significant"}},"regulation_id_numbers":["2070-AJ22"],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{"supporting_documents":[{"title":"WPS 1988 Proposal Part 1","document_id":"EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0184-2518"},{"title":"OSHA's Final Hazard Communications Standard 2012","document_id":"EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0184-2514"},{"title":"Burke Hutchins Best Training Practices 2006","document_id":"EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0184-2511"},{"title":"Economic Analysis of the Proposed Agricultural Worker Protection Standard Revisions","document_id":"EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0184-0102"},{"title":"California Department of Pesticide Regulation. 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