Over the past couple of years, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) has worked on its new effort to regulate pesticides under the auspices of an effort known as Sustainable Pest Management (SPM). According to CDPR, SPM is “a holistic, whole system approach to managing pests in agriculture and other managed ecosystems and urban and rural communities that builds on the concept of integrated pest management (IPM) with broader consideration of human health and social equity, environmental protections and economic vitality.” CDPR developed the SPM Roadmap to guide the agency for the next 20 years to achieve sustainable pest management. In the roadmap CDPR states as their number one goal “by 2050 California has eliminated the use of Priority Pesticides by transitioning to sustainable pest management practices”. What are “priority pesticides? According to the SPM Roadmap, “priority pesticides” are pesticide products, active ingredients, and groups of related products within the context of specific product uses or pest/location use combinations that have been deemed to be of greatest concern and warrant heightened attention, planning, and support to expedite their replacement and eventual elimination. Now CDPR has identified a list of pesticides of regulatory concern. We believe this to be the initial list of chemicals for SPM, as it meets their criteria presented in the SPM Roadmap. The Association has cross refenced with products used on cotton that we will have to fight to protect and keep available.