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The bill increases transparency and alignment of pesticide mitigation with farming practices—helping growers plan and reducing some conflicts with species protections—at the cost of added analyses and coordination that can delay registrations, raise compliance costs, and in some cases produce stricter use limits or reduced stakeholder input via waivers.
Farmers and agricultural producers will get EPA-provided economic analyses estimating the costs of required mitigation, enabling better planning for compliance and budgeting.
Farmers will see mitigation measures more closely aligned with agronomic practices and available alternatives because EPA must consider agronomic use data and alternatives when developing measures.
Farmers and state governments may face fewer conflicts between species protections and practical pesticide uses because EPA must coordinate with Interior and Commerce on ESA-related measures.
Farmers and small-business owners may face slower access to new or continued pesticide uses because added coordination and required analyses could delay EPA registration decisions.
Farmers, small businesses, and taxpayers may incur higher compliance and administrative costs because EPA and registrants must perform additional economic analyses and coordination.
Farmers may lose pest-control options if coordinated ESA-related measures result in more restrictive use conditions to protect species.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires EPA to coordinate with USDA (and consult Interior/Commerce) on pesticide mitigation/registration, publish economic analyses, and consider agronomic data and alternatives.
Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate with USDA (and consult Interior and Commerce) when it imposes pesticide risk mitigation measures or conducts registrations or registration reviews. The bill directs EPA to publish economic analyses estimating costs to growers, State lead agencies, and other affected parties, to obtain and consider agronomic use data and alternatives information, to explain how such data were used, and allows the agencies or a registrant to waive coordination for a specific action if they jointly publish that agreement.
Official title: 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.
Introduced September 26, 2025 by Jodey Cook Arrington · Last progress September 26, 2025