ARMED FORCES PEST MANAGEMENT BOARD
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MISSION: The Armed Forces Pest Management Board (AFPMB) recommends policy,
provides guidance, and coordinates the exchange of information on all
matters related to pest management throughout the Department of Defense
(DoD). The AFPMB's mission is to ensure that environmentally sound and
effective programs are present to prevent pests and disease vectors
from adversely affecting DoD operations.
In support of this mission, the Armed Forces Pest Management
Board:
- Develops and recommends policy
to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and
Logistics.
- Coordinates pest management
activities in the DoD.
- Develops issues, and maintains
manuals and other guidance necessary to implement the technical
requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA).
- Implements the DoD plan for
Certification of Pesticide Applicators and develops comprehensive
training guidance for DoD pest management personnel.
- Coordinates DoD contingency
disease vector and pest management with the Joint Staff, the Combatant
Commands and other contingency planning organizations.
- Serves as an advisory body
to the DoD Components and provides timely scientific and professional
pest management advice.
- Develops and distributes technical
information and guidance on pest management to the Components by
means of Technical Information Memoranda and Bulletins, Disease
Vector Ecology Profiles and similar publications.
- Reviews and approves any introduction,
stockage, and deletion of pest management materiel (excluding disinfectants
and biocides) by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in the DoD supply
system.
- Coordinates and develops requirements
for pest management research, development, testing and evaluations
in the DoD.
VISION: The Armed Forces Pest Management Board's vision
is that the DoD will be the Federal leader for innovative prevention
and management of disease vectors and pests.
HISTORY: The Armed Forces Pest Management Board, established by DoD Directive
4715.1, operates under DoD Instruction 4150.7 and a multiservice
regulation. Originally chartered in 1956 as the Armed Forces Pest
Control Board, it was renamed the Armed Forces Pest Management Board in
1979. It meets three times a year in the Washington D.C. area, and once
a year at one of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
laboratories, where research of interest to the DoD is reviewed with
USDA researchers. The Armed Forces Pest Management Board is a
Directorate in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Installations and Environment (DUSD(I&E)).
STRATEGY: The strategy of the Armed Forces Pest Management Board is to
support military readiness and preventive defense and to demonstrate
environmental leadership and avert future pollution problems by maximizing
the use of non-chemical or least toxic chemical techniques to control
pests and disease vectors. To support this strategy, the Board will:
- Promote integrated pest management,
biopesticides and least toxic pesticides for installations and deployments.
- Advocate personal protection
measures against vector-borne diseases.
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