O.C.G.A. § 2-7-65 (2019)

federal

and

state

agencies;

The Commissioner may cooperate, receive grants-in-aid, and enter into cooperative agreements with any agency of the federal government, of this state or its subdivisions, or of another state for the following purposes, without exclusion: (1) To secure uniformity of regulations; (2) To enter into cooperative agreements with the Environmental Protection Agency to register pesticides under the authority of this article and FIFRA; (3) To cooperate in the enforcement of the federal pesticide control laws through the use of state or federal personnel and facilities or any combination thereof and to implement cooperative enforcement pro286

PLANT DISEASE, PEST CONTROL, & PESTICIDES

grams including, but not limited to, the registration and inspection of establishments; (4) To enter into a contract for monitoring pesticides for the national plan; and (5) To prepare and submit state plans to meet federal certification standards or for issuing experimental use permits.