FESTF has developed an Information Management System (IMS) in order to meet the legal obligations of its member companies to submit data required by EPA/OPP under FIFRA (as described in Pesticide Registration Notice 2000-2) in support of the members’ registration and re-registration actions.  The purpose of the IMS is to meet the data requirements in a manner that significantly improves the consistency, quality, availability and use of existing information on threatened and endangered species and pesticide use. The data submitted by FESTF will be used by EPA/OPP in its development of species-specific refinements for endangered species and by the EPA/OPP Endangered Species Protection Program to develop recommendations to avoid adverse effects to listed species. Version 1.1 of FESTF’s Information Management System (IMS), an alpha version of the IMS that provides a basic platform, was submitted to EPA on July 19, 2004 (MRID number 46325901).  Version 2.0 of the IMS was submitted to EPA on March 3, 2005 (MRID number 46486301). The submissions addressed data requirements by providing

• the development and submission by FESTF of an Information Management System (IMS);
• access to high quality species biological and locality data (NatureServe Multi-Jurisdictional Dataset);
• a quality test of the IMS, based in part upon information obtained from NatureServe.

The IMS allows county-level comparisons of existing data on pesticide use and endangered species and can be used to house new information as it is collected. The NatureServe data (formally referred to as the NatureServe Multi-Jurisdictional Dataset (MJD) are detailed multi-state data on species listed by the Endangered Species Act. These data contain species information and habitat descriptions as well as spatial data on species location.

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Last Update:  January 22, 2008