FIFRA Section 24c, Special Local Need

Section 24(c) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) allows for registration of a pesticide product as a Special Local Need (SLN).

Special local need means an existing or imminent pest problem within Georgia for which the GDA has determined an appropriate federally registered pesticide product is not sufficiently available.

Special local needs may include a new method or timing of application, new crop/new site, new pest, changed rate, application in particular soil type, new product/different formulation, and products useful in managing pesticide resistance in a particular crop.

Section 24(c) SLN labels are valid only in the state of issue. Persons must have in their possession a valid Georgia SLN label when using a pesticide pursuant to a section 24(c) SLN registration.

EPA Information

EPA reviews SLN registrations and may disapprove the state registration if:

• The use is not covered by necessary tolerances.
• The use has been previously denied, disapproved, suspended or canceled by the Administrator or voluntarily canceled subsequent to a notice concerning health or environmental concerns.

Section 24c Conditions

Under the authority of section 24(c) of FIFRA, Georgia may register a new end use product for any use, or an additional use of a federally registered pesticide product, if the following conditions exist:

1. There is a special local need for the use within the state.
2. The use is covered by necessary tolerances (maximum amount of pesticide residue allowed in or on a food or feed commodity), exemptions or other clearances under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act if the use is a food or feed use.
3. Registration for the same use has not previously been denied, disapproved, suspended or cancelled by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or voluntarily cancelled by the registrant subsequent to issuance by EPA of a notice of intent to cancel that registration because of health or environmental concerns about an ingredient contained in the pesticide product, unless such denial, disapproval, suspension or cancellation has been superseded by subsequent action of the EPA.
4. The registration is in accord with the purposes of FIFRA.

Section 24c Application

What We Look For:

Please feel free to submit your 24c application request to our Pesticide Program Manager for review. Generally, we look for the following when reviewing 24c label requests:

1. EPA Application for Notification of State Registration form No. 8570-25
2. A draft SLN label
3. The current Section 3 container label
4. Registrant letter of support
5. Letter(s) of support
   1. from a qualified, knowledgeable expert(s)
   2. organizations, grower associations, etc.

Current Special Local Need Labels 

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