Pesticides: volatile organic compound emissions.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to achieve the maximum feasible reduction in volatile organic compounds emitted by consumer products, as defined, if the state board makes certain findings. Existing law requires the Director of Pesticide Regulation to develop control measures for certain pesticides designed to reduce emissions in order to protect public health. This bill would require the state board to update, in a public hearing, the commercial structural and agricultural use pesticide volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions inventory on an annual basis. This bill would require any regulation adopted by the state board, or adopted by the Department of Pesticide Regulation, or pesticide product registered by the Department of Pesticide Regulation, that reduces an environmental hazard associated with a pesticide product to not lead to the registration of, or increased use of, any product that is more toxic than that pesticide product.