Title: Protect Against Paraquat Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Protect Against Paraquat Act
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel the registration for all uses of the pesticide paraquat and to ban paraquat residue on food.
The bill prohibits the sale and use of existing stock of paraquat.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3817 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3817

 To cancel the registration of all uses of the pesticide paraquat, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2019

 Ms. Velazquez (for herself, Ms. Clarke of New York, and Mr. Danny K. 
Davis of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
   the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To cancel the registration of all uses of the pesticide paraquat, and 
                          for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Against Paraquat Act''.

SEC. 2. CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION OF PARAQUAT.

    (a) In General.--Pursuant to section 6(b) of the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136d(b)), 
effective on the date of the enactment of this Act--
            (1) paraquat shall be deemed to generally cause 
        unreasonable adverse effects to humans in part due to its acute 
        systemic toxicity and for being a known neurotoxin which causes 
        Parkinson's disease;
            (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
        Agency shall cancel the registration of all uses of paraquat; 
        and
            (3) following such cancellation, the Administrator shall, 
        in accordance with section 408(l)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, 
        and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 346a(l)(2)), revoke any tolerance 
        or exemption that allows the presence of paraquat or any 
        pesticide chemical residue that results from its use, in or on 
        food.
    (b) Use of Existing Stocks.--Notwithstanding section 6(a) of the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136d(a)), 
effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the continued sale 
and use of existing stocks of paraquat is prohibited.
    (c) Reregistration.--Effective on the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not 
reregister paraquat under section 4 of the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136a-1).
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