• Authorized by Congress, the (ARS) National Genetic Resources Program (NGRP) goal is to acquire, characterize, preserve, document, and distribute to scientists, germplasm of all lifeforms important for food and agricultural production.
• National Genetic Resouces Advisory Council -- advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary and Director of the NGRP.
• National Germplasm Resources Laboratory
• The Beltsville Area Agricultural Research Service consists of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) programs at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, MD; the US National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.; and worksites in Chatsworth, NJ; Presque Isle, ME; and McMinnville, TN. BARC is the largest and most diversified agricultural research complex in the world.

California Department of Food and Agriculture

Cal/Osha Horticulture Project

California Department of Industrial Relations

California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Colorado Department of Agriculture

Cooperative State, Research & Extension Service provides links to CSREES agencies, directories, many links

Environmental Protection Agency -- rules & regulations, legislation and many links

• EPA Office of Pesticide programs

• EPA Partnerships for Reducing Pesticide Riskk

European Plant Protection Organization

Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds

Internal Revenue Service IRS news, information on tax changes

Occupational Safety & Health Administration -- compliance links, training information

Plant Introduction Station, Ames IO

The Tax Web Source for tax related problems, links to other tax sites

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

click below for other PCN portals to the internet

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