DATE: December 17, 2024
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Paul Nerland, County Administrative Officer
SUBJECT: 2024 Annual Integrated Pest Management Progress Report
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Receive County of Fresno's Annual Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Progress Report for 2024.
2. Direct the County's IPM Coordinator to submit such Annual IPM Progress Report directly to the State of California Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Central Valley Water Board).
REPORT
Your Board's adopted County IPM Plan, section 4.1, states that a County annual progress report is to be submitted as follows:
The [State's] Pyrethroid Control Program requires an annual progress report to be developed to document the management practices that have been implemented, evaluate pyrethroid concentrations with respect to the pyrethroid triggers, and identify effective actions to be taken in the future. Accordingly, the Permittees [e.g., the County] will prepare and submit a progress report by October 1 each year in conjunction with the annual report submittal for the Region-wide Permit. Pending approval of this Pyrethroid Management Plan, the first progress report is anticipated to be submitted in 2024, after a full year of plan implementation.
This Annual IPM Progress serves the foregoing purpose. This is the County's first Annual IPM Progress Report.
Normally, the County would be expected to submit the County's Annual IPM Progress report to the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District (FMFCD), who will then submit all of the Co-Permittee's (i.e., FMFCD, County of Fresno, City of Clovis, and City of Fresno) Annual IPM Progress Reports to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Central Valley Water Board). But the other Co-Permittees have not completed their own Annual IPM Progress Reports for 2024.
To avoid delay for the County's reporting, Staff recommend that your Board approve the recommended actions. If approved, the FM...
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