AMCA Position Papers

Clean Water Act NPDES Impacts on Mosquito Control Programs

Issue: Mosquito Control Programs (MCP’s) across the country face potentially devastating costs and reductions to service due to the upcoming implementation of NPDES permits for mosquito control pesticide applications. These permits will be duplicative of existing regulations, expensive to comply with, provide impetus for anti-pesticide activists to initiate legal challenges, and will result in a reduction in public health protection from mosquitoes and mosquito borne diseases while providing little or no environmental benefits.  Click here for more...

Endangered Species Act Considerations and Mosquito Control

Issue: Endangered Species Act (ESA) decisions can impact the availability of pesticides used to protect the public’s health and welfare. Unfortunately, these decisions are not being developed in a transparent manner based upon sound science, but are increasingly being driven by costly litigation.  Click here for more...

Funding for National Disease Surveillance Network through Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) Grants from the Centers for Disease Control

Issue: The proposed budget reinstates critical funding for vector-borne disease monitoring and response programs nationwide. This funding is critical to maintain the nation’s ability to detect outbreaks of endemic and exotic disease.  Click here for more...

Failure to Appropriate FQPA-Authorized Funding Threatens Availability of Public Health Pesticides

Issue: Nearly 15 years after the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was enacted, funding for Congressionally-mandated public health pesticide data collection has not been appropriated. Click here for more...

Mosquito Control on National Wildlife Refuges

Issue: To assure that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) “National Mosquito Management Policy” allows Mosquito Control Programs (MCPs) to effectively control mosquitoes on/off-refuge in a timely, cost effective and environmentally-compatible manner. Click here for more...

Continued Federal Funding from USDA for Cooperative Research on West Nile virus and Other Emerging Diseases, Conducted with the USDA/ARS Research Program in Florida and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Issue: Funding for vital research on emerging diseases has been excluded from the proposed budget. Click here for more...