I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1709 
To authorize resources for sustained research and analysis to address Colony 
Collapse Disorder, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 27, 2007 
Mr. HASTINGS of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To authorize resources for sustained research and analysis 
to address Colony Collapse Disorder, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pollinator Protection 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Many of the crops that humans and live-
stock consume rely on pollinators for healthy 
growth. More specifically, pollination by honey bees 
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adds over $15,000,000,000 annually to the value of 
United States crops. 
(2) One-third of our food supply depends on 
honey bee pollination, which makes the management 
and protection of pollinators an issue of paramount 
importance to the security of the United States food 
supply system. 
(3) Colony Collapse Disorder is the name that 
has been given to the latest die-off of honey bee colo-
nies, exacerbating the continual decline of pollinators 
in North America. Colonies in more than 23 states 
have been affected by this disorder. 
(4) If the current rate of decline continues, the 
United States will be forced to rely more heavily on 
imported foods. Thus, American food security would 
be destabilized through adverse affects on avail-
ability, price, and quality of the many fruits, vegeta-
bles, and other products that depend on animal polli-
nation. 
(5) Enhanced funding for research on honey 
bees, parasites, pathogens, toxins, and other environ-
mental factors affecting bees and pollination of cul-
tivated and wild plants will yield responses to Colony 
Collapse Disorder and other factors causing the de-
cline of pollinators in North America. 
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SEC. 3. SUSTAINED APICULTURAL RESEARCH AND COLONY 
COLLAPSE DISORDER WORKING GROUP. 
(a) AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agri-
culture, acting through the Agricultural Research Service, 
the following: 
(1) $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 
through 2012 for new personnel, facilities improve-
ment, and additional research at Department of Ag-
riculture Apicultural Research Laboratories. 
(2) $2,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 
and 2009 for research on honey bee physiology, in-
sect pathology, insect chemical ecology, and honey 
bee toxicology at other Department of Agriculture 
facilities in New York, Florida, California, and 
Texas. 
(3) $1,750,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 
through 2010 for an area-wide research program to 
identify causes and solutions for Colony Collapse 
Disorder in affected States. 
(b) COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, 
AND EXTENSION SERVICE.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through 
the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension 
Service, $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 
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through 2012 to fund Department of Agriculture research 
grants to investigate— 
(1) honey bee immunology; 
(2) honey bee biology and ecology; 
(3) pollination biology; 
(4) honey bee genomics; 
(5) honey bee bioinformatics; 
(6) sublethal effects of insecticides, herbicides 
and fungicides on honey bees and other beneficial in-
sects; and 
(7) effects of genetically modified crops and 
their interaction with honey bees and other polli-
nators. 
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