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106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1913

To authorize registration of Canadian pesticides for agricultural crops.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 24, 1999

Mr. POMEROY (for himself, Mr. HILL of Montana, and Mr. BALDACCI) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To authorize registration of Canadian pesticides for

agricultural crops.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pesticide Registration

5 Harmonization Act of 1999’’.

6 SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO HARMONI7 ZATION OF REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN PES8 TICIDES FOR USE ON AGRICULTURAL CROPS.

9 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con10 gress that the President should direct the United States
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1 representative to the United States-Canada Technical

2 Working Group (hereafter referred to as ‘‘TWG’’) to use

3 the voice and vote of the United States to urge the TWG

4 to make the harmonization of registration of pesticides de5 scribed in subsection (b) the highest priority.

6 (b) PESTICIDE DEFINED.—For purposes of this Act,

7 a pesticide is a crop protection product which is registered

8 in Canada for use on agricultural crops and which is not

9 registered in the United States for use on such crops but

10 is registered in the United States for other food use crops.

11 SEC. 3. ACCEPTANCE OF REGISTRATION FOR CERTAIN PES12 TICIDES.

13 (a) ACCEPTANCE OF REGISTRATION.—Within 180

14 days of receiving a written request from the registrant of

15 a pesticide in Canada, the Administrator of the Environ16 mental Protection Agency (hereafter referred to as the

17 ‘‘Administrator’’) shall accept registration of the pesticide

18 for use in the United States on the same crops as it is

19 registered for in Canada unless the Administrator deter20 mines that substantial evidence exists to preclude United

21 States acceptance of the registration.

22 (b) ACCEPTANCE REQUIREMENT.—To be eligible for

23 acceptance of a pesticide under subsection (a), the reg24 istrant shall submit with its request—
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1 (1) copies of all the data and other registration

2 materials submitted to and approved by the Pes3 ticide Management and Registration Agency of Can4 ada; and

5 (2) an estimate of the expected use of the pes6 ticide on the crops subject to acceptance and an ex7 planation of how total use of the pesticide on all

8 crops will be made to conform with the applicable re9 quirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,

10 and Rodenticide Act.

11 (c) PRIORITIES.—In deciding whether to accept a

12 registration, the Administrator shall take into account the

13 priority of harmonizing registrations of pesticides between

14 the United States and Canada, as established in the Can15 ada-United States Trade Agreement and the North Amer16 ican Free Trade Agreement. A request submitted under

17 this section for pesticide registration shall not be counted

18 against any other priority submitted by a registrant.

19 (d) DENIAL.—In the event registration of a pesticide

20 is denied, the Administrator shall publicly identify the rea21 sons and causes for the denial.

22 SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

23 Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment

24 of the Act, and every year thereafter, the United States

25 representative to the TWG shall report to appropriate
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1 committees of Congress on the status of TWG efforts to

2 harmonize registrations of pesticides for use on agricul3 tural crops in the United States and Canada.

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