Sponsor
Roger Wayne Marshall
Senator · R-KS
Senator · R-KS
Requires EPA to coordinate with USDA on pesticide registrations, publish economic analyses and USDA data use, consider ESA consultation measures, and allow publishable waivers by agreement.
Official title: 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 June 9, 2025 by Roger Wayne Marshall · Last progress June 9, 2025
The bill improves transparency and makes pesticide mitigation decisions more practical for farmers by incorporating USDA data and analyses and coordinating conservation agencies, but it also adds delay and costs to regulatory reviews and risks tilting decisions toward agricultural priorities at the expense of stricter health or environmental protections.
Farmers and growers will have USDA agronomic data formally considered in EPA pesticide mitigation decisions, making required mitigation measures more practical for real-world agriculture.
State agencies, growers, and the public will see EPA's economic analysis of mitigation costs, increasing transparency about the financial impacts of restrictions and enabling better-informed local planning.
EPA's required coordination with the Department of the Interior and Department of Commerce on Endangered Species Act section 7 measures helps ensure biological conservation concerns are integrated alongside pesticide-use decisions.
Requiring additional coordination and analyses may slow EPA registration and review decisions, delaying regulatory actions or approvals that affect product availability and oversight timelines.
Mandating economic analyses and coordination could raise administrative and compliance costs for EPA and registrants, which may translate into higher costs for growers or consumers.
Giving USDA a formal role in shaping mitigation could bias outcomes toward agricultural production priorities rather than stricter environmental or public-health protections.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the EPA Administrator to coordinate with the USDA (through the Office of Pest Management Policy) when developing pesticide registrations and registration review decisions. The EPA must seek and publish USDA agronomic use data and economic analyses, consider availability and viability of alternatives, incorporate input from ESA consultations with DOI and DOC, and may waive coordination for a specific action if EPA, USDA, and the pesticide registrant agree and publish that agreement.