To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for improved coordination between the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require EPA coordination with USDA when pesticide risk mitigation measures are required. EPA must develop mitigation measures in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture and publish an economic analysis in the docket. The analysis must assess costs to growers, state lead agencies, and other affected entities, including use-requirement changes and labeling changes, and assess costs and benefits of pesticide use and risk reduction.
For pesticide registration, registration review, and tolerance actions affecting pesticide sale, distribution, or use, EPA must coordinate with USDA's Office of Pest Management Policy to obtain agronomic use data from USDA and industry and information on the availability and economic viability of alternatives. EPA must publish in the docket how it used USDA-provided data and explain its determinations.
The bill also requires EPA, USDA, Interior, and Commerce coordination on reasonable and prudent actions and measures arising from consultations affecting pesticide actions. EPA may waive or modify coordination requirements for a specific action if EPA, USDA, and the registrant agree and EPA publishes the agreement in the docket.
Who Benefits and How
Growers, pesticide registrants, state lead pesticide agencies, and agricultural producers benefit from required economic analysis, USDA agronomic input, alternatives information, and docket transparency before pesticide restrictions are finalized. USDA Office of Pest Management Policy gains a formal role in EPA pesticide decisions affecting agricultural use.
Who Bears the Burden and How
EPA pesticide registration and review staff must coordinate with USDA, publish economic analyses, document data use, and coordinate with Interior and Commerce on consultation measures. USDA Office of Pest Management Policy staff, Interior wildlife consultation staff, Commerce fisheries consultation staff, state lead agencies, and pesticide registrants must provide data, feedback, or waiver coordination.
Key Provisions
- Requires EPA to develop pesticide risk mitigation measures in coordination with USDA.
- Requires docketed economic analyses of mitigation costs to growers, state lead agencies, and affected entities.
- Requires EPA to consider USDA and industry agronomic use data and alternatives information in registration and review actions.
- Requires EPA to publish descriptions of USDA-provided data use and related determinations in the docket.
- Requires EPA, USDA, Interior, and Commerce coordination on reasonable and prudent actions and measures from consultations.
- Allows coordination waivers or modifications when EPA, USDA, and the registrant agree and EPA publishes the agreement.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires EPA to coordinate pesticide risk mitigation, registration review, and certain endangered-species-related measures with USDA, publish economic analyses and data-use explanations in dockets, consider agronomic and alternatives data, and allow coordinated waivers with pesticide registrants.
Key Policy Areas
Pesticides, Agriculture, EPA, Regulatory Analysis
Primary Purpose
Requires EPA to coordinate pesticide risk mitigation, registration review, and certain endangered-species-related measures with USDA, publish economic analyses and data-use explanations in dockets, consider agronomic and alternatives data, and allow coordinated waivers with pesticide registrants.
Policy Domains
Section 1 FIFRA pesticide mitigation, registration, and consultation coordination
Identified Gains
- Growers using registered pesticides
- Pesticide registrants
- State lead pesticide agencies
- USDA Office of Pest Management Policy
Identified Costs
- EPA pesticide registration staff
- USDA pesticide policy staff
- Interior wildlife consultation staff
- Commerce fisheries consultation staff
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
Mr. Arrington (for himself and Mr. Alford) introduced the following …
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Commerce fisheries consultation staff, EPA pesticide registration staff, Interior wildlife consultation staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "opmp"
- → USDA Office of Pest Management Policy
- "registrant"
- → Pesticide registrant
- "administrator"
- → Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
- "secretary_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce
- "secretary_interior"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "secretary_agriculture"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Measures required for a pesticide registration that EPA must develop with USDA coordination and docketed economic analysis.
USDA and industry data on agricultural pesticide use that EPA must consider in registration, review, and tolerance-related actions affecting pesticide sale, distribution, or use.
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