Clean Sweep Programs - US Environmental Protection Agency

Appendix INOTES on STATE “ATA GLANCE” PROFILESThe information in Appendix I is based on data voluntarily submitted by state Clean Sweep managers andstate reports and web sites as of October 2001. Inaccuracies can be corrected in on-line updates on EPA’swebsite.Program Status: Program categories are defined as follows:Permanently funded: Twenty-one states have continuous programs which are permanently funded. Acontinuous program is defined as one that has been implemented for at least three consecutive years.Permanent funding is defined as a mechanism that is reliable, consistent and in place year after year, e.g.,using a portion of state pesticide registration fees, access to a fund that pays for clean up programs, orconsistent state appropriations.Continuous: Twelve states have continuous programs, meaning a program that has been implemented forat least three consecutive years that does not have permanent funding. Although continuous means “withoutinterruption,” a program may still be classified as continuous even if it occasionally skips a year. Of thetwelve continuously funded states, ten have active programs, that is, they have been implemented for at leastthree years in a row and carried out a Clean Sweep program in 2000 or 2001. Two of the twelvecontinuously funded states have inactive programs, because they did not conduct a program in 2000 or2001.Intermittent: Nine states have programs which are not continuous but which have held more than onecollection event. There are four active programs (in 2000 or 2001) and five inactive programs.One-time: Four states have programs which have held one collection event. All of these events were heldin 1990 or 1992.Never: Four states have no existing program and have never held a collection event.If a state’s program is funded by participant fees only, it has not been included in the “permanent funding”category. Fees can be less predictable, and thus present additional issues for the state lead agency tohandle. Whether or not people are willing to pay for disposal depends on many variables, including the farmeconomy, weather conditions and pest infestations, although fee systems can be built to address theseissues.Quantity of Pesticides Collected: The bar graph and the total amount collected to date reflects collectiondata through year 2000. Although some states submitted data for year 2001, EPA decided, for the sake ofconsistency, to postpone 2001 updates until the EPA Clean Sweep web site has been established and all2001 data have been received.