1. Survey Request:
   AAPCO was asked by a number of AAPCO members as well as attendees at the October 2004 International Conference on Pesticide Application for Drift Management, to conduct a "Drift Survey" of the State Pesticide Regulatory Lead Agencies. The survey was to be similar to the AAPCO surveys in 1996 and 1999.
    
2. Methods:
   Members of the AAPCO Committee on Off Target Movement of Pesticides cooperatively developed the questions for this 2005 survey. Important input from members of the SFIREG Pesticides Operations Management Committee contributed to the drafting of appropriate and desired questions. Comments received as a result of conducting the 1996 and 1999 surveys were relied upon in decisions to include same or similar questions, or alternatively, in asking a question in a significantly different way.
    
3. Participation:
   State Lead Agencies (SLAs) reported again that substantial expenditure of staff time and other resources were necessary in order to complete the survey. Following is a list of states that provided data for the 2005 survey.

4. Strengths & Limitations:
   Many of the following comments are the same as were offered in regard to the 1996 and 1999 surveys.

   - States answered questions "as best they could".
   - Individual states accept, investigate and enforce pesticide drift complaints in many different ways.
   - States have varying data base systems for recording drift complaint and enforcement data.
   - Definitions, data entry, design of databases, and data utilization vary significantly among the states.
   - Some states offered complete answers/data to all survey questions; some only partial responses to some or all of the survey questions.
   - Some data are estimates.
   - Some states have no specific violation for off-target drift.
   - Some states track and report only "serious" drift violations.
   - One state does aerial drift investigations & forwards results to the state aerial board for enforcement.
    

5. Recognition of Team:
   The 2005 AAPCO Survey resulted from the hard work and voluntary efforts of Leo Reed and Berly Nguyen, both on staff at Office of the Indiana State Chemist.
   
   NOTE: SLA responses were entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. If you are interested in individual state survey data, you can request a copy of the spreadsheet from Dave Scott at scottde@purdue.edu or download it directly from the AAPCO website http://www.aapco.org.

2005 AAPCO Pesticide Drift Enforcement Survey
 

1. How many drift complaints or occurrences did your agency field investigate in the following years?

2. How many of your agency’s drift investigations were (1) not confirmed for pesticide drift, (2) confirmed for pesticide drift but no enforcement actions were taken, and (3) confirmed for pesticide drift and enforcement actions were taken?

3. How many of the confirmed drift occurrences involved pesticide applications to the following targets?

4. How many of the confirmed drift occurrences involved drift to the following non-target sites?

5. How many of the confirmed drift occurrences involved applications made by the following applicators?

6. How many of the confirmed drift occurrences involved applications by the following method?

7. List the five (5) pesticide active ingredients most commonly involved in the confirmed occurrences.

8. How many of the following enforcement actions were taken for confirmed drift occurrences? Count each action that applies for the drift violation, even if more than one enforcement action is taken for each drift occurrence. (NOTE: Enforcement actions are often concluded in subsequent years, and some actions may be open or pending. Simply report actions taken/concluded in each year.)

9. How many of the actions in #8 above involved repeat drift offenders within the last three years?

10. Since 2001 have there been changes to your state/tribal pesticide laws or regulations that have changed the way you respond to, investigate, or enforce drift complaints or violations? If yes, please provide details.