State Of CAL DEP Of Pesticide

State Of CAL DEP Of Pesticide, registered in SAM.gov since August 2004, is a California state government entity that serves as the primary regulatory authority for pesticide management within the state. The department provides comprehensive federal grant-funded services focused on pesticide regulation, environmental protection, and public health safeguards. Through its federal grant awards, the entity delivers enforcement activities, compliance monitoring, certification programs, environmental data collection, and educational outreach designed to ensure pesticides are manufactured, sold, used, and stored in accordance with federal and state laws.

The department has established a consistent track record of federal grant funding, receiving multiple cooperative agreements and formula grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Region 9) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) spanning from 2021 through 2028. Under EPA Performance Partnership Grants (CFDA 66.605), the entity received $1,182,501 for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, and previously received $527,078 beginning July 1, 2022 (extended through June 30, 2025 with supplemental funding). These grants support core enforcement and program implementation activities including compliance monitoring and inspections of pesticide applicators, agricultural workers, and establishments where pesticides are used; implementation of certification programs for restricted-use pesticide applicators; collection and analysis of surface and groundwater data to monitor pesticide contamination; outreach and training programs for local and regional fish and wildlife agencies; and pesticide safety education through radio and television, particularly in Spanish-language media targeting farm worker communities. Additionally, the department has received multiple cooperative agreements from the Agricultural Marketing Service supporting the Pesticide Data Program (PDP) for calendar years 2021-2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, under which it collects food samples—particularly those most frequently consumed by infants and children—and coordinates chemical analyses for pesticide residue testing to generate data used by EPA for dietary risk assessments, FDA for regulatory enforcement, and USDA for trade negotiations. The entity has not utilized subrecipients or subaward arrangements in these federal awards, managing all work directly through its own personnel and state laboratory facilities.