New Way To Search Pesticide Active Ingredients

-- In support of two of the major components of the President’s Open Government Initiative, the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs has released a new web application called Pesticide Chemical Search.  Chemical Search is a "one-stop" gateway to EPA information and other federal agency resources on the active ingredients used in pesticide products.  Chemical Search is an intuitive web application that gives the regulated community, scientists, and interested stakeholders increased access to the regulatory and scientific “story” behind pesticide active ingredients.  In addition, Chemical Search provides easy access to the hundreds of public comment periods that EPA offers each year related to pesticides.

To explore Chemical Search, please visit http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/chemicalsearch

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Spotlight on Multi-Agency FOIA Module

In support of the President’s commitment to "Harness the Power of Technology" to improve responses under the Freedom of Information Act  (FOIA) the EPA, the Department of Commerce and the National Archives and Records Administration are developing a multi-agency module to manage and publicize FOIA requests and responses. We plan to leverage an existing eGov platform, already in use across the government to reduce costs and make this available of other agencies to use. Filing and managing a FOIA request will be easier for the public as well as for the Federal employees providing answers, and more importantly, the public will be able to view other people’s FOIA requests and responses when the module is complete.  

EPA recently received and responded to a FOIA request regarding this effort and have posted the associated documents. We've also been in the process of briefing agencies that might be interested in using a multi-agency solution and have developed some generic briefing materials (PPT) and flyer (PDF, 1 pp, 241 K).