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.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires EPA to coordinate more closely with USDA when developing pesticide risk-mitigation measures and registration decisions, publish economic analyses and data-use explanations, and coordinate with other agencies on Endangered Species Act-related pesticide measures.
Who Benefits and How
Growers, registrants, and other affected users could benefit from more formal economic analysis and USDA input when EPA develops pesticide restrictions and related measures.
Who Bears the Burden and How
EPA would take on new coordination, analysis, and docket-publication duties, and pesticide decisions could face additional procedural steps involving USDA, Interior, and Commerce.
Key Provisions
- Requires EPA to coordinate with USDA on risk mitigation measures for pesticides and publish an economic analysis of implementation costs and cost-benefit considerations.
- Requires EPA to coordinate with USDA on agronomic use data and alternative-viability information during pesticide registration and review decisions and explain in the docket how that information was used or not used.
- Requires EPA to coordinate with USDA, Interior, and Commerce on reasonable and prudent actions and measures related to ESA consultations for pesticides.
- Allows the coordination requirements to be waived or modified for a specific action if EPA, USDA, and the registrant agree and the agreement is published in the docket.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires EPA to coordinate more closely with USDA when developing pesticide risk-mitigation measures and registration decisions, publish economic analyses and data-use explanations, and coordinate with other agencies on Endangered Species Act-related pesticide measures.
Key Policy Areas
Agriculture, Environment, Regulation
Primary Purpose
Requires EPA to coordinate more closely with USDA when developing pesticide risk-mitigation measures and registration decisions, publish economic analyses and data-use explanations, and coordinate with other agencies on Endangered Species Act-related pesticide measures.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Growers, pesticide registrants, and other affected entities seeking more economic consideration in pesticide decisions
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- EPA administrators and other agencies responsible for the additional coordination and publication duties
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
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.
Growers, State lead agencies, registrants, and other affected pesticide users whose costs and alternatives must be analyzed
EPA officials conducting economic analyses, interagency coordination, and docket publication
USDA and other federal agencies drawn into the expanded coordination process
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "administrator"
- → Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- "secretary_of_agriculture"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
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