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The bill aims to make pesticide mitigation more practical for farmers and more transparent by requiring USDA input and published economic analyses, but it risks delaying EPA actions, raising costs, and tilting outcomes toward agricultural production at the potential expense of environmental and public-health protections.
Farmers and agricultural workers will see USDA agronomic data formally considered before EPA imposes pesticide mitigation requirements, making mitigation measures more practical for real-world farming.
Growers, state agencies, and the public will get clearer information because EPA must publish economic analyses of mitigation costs and disclose whether and how USDA-provided data were used, increasing transparency and accountability.
Wildlife and conservation interests (and those who rely on healthy ecosystems in rural areas) will have DOI and DOC coordination built into ESA section 7 considerations, ensuring biological conservation concerns are explicitly weighed alongside pesticide decisions.
The public and taxpayers may face slower EPA pesticide registration and review timelines because added coordination and analyses can delay regulatory decisions.
Growers and consumers could face higher costs because mandated economic analyses and extra coordination may raise compliance costs for EPA and registrants, potentially increasing prices for small farms and consumers.
The public-health and environmental protections could be weakened if USDA's formal role biases mitigation outcomes toward agricultural production priorities rather than stricter health or environmental safeguards.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires EPA to coordinate with USDA and other agencies on pesticide registration decisions, publish economic analyses and USDA agronomic data in dockets, consider ESA consultation measures, and allow joint waivers.
Introduced June 9, 2025 by Roger Wayne Marshall · Last progress June 9, 2025
Requires the EPA Administrator to coordinate with the USDA (through the Office of Pest Management Policy) and certain other agencies when making pesticide registration and registration review decisions. The EPA must obtain and publish USDA agronomic and economic data, publish an economic analysis of risk-mitigation costs to growers and state agencies, consider reasonable and prudent measures from ESA consultations, and may waive these coordination steps by mutual agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture and the registrant. The change adds new procedural requirements for how EPA documents and justifies pesticide decisions, increases interagency data-sharing and transparency in decision dockets, and creates an optional waiver pathway agreed to by EPA, USDA, and the registrant.