§136w–7 Department of Agriculture minor use program

Summary

Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to coordinate USDA work on minor uses of pesticides. The Secretary must run the IR–4 project and the national pesticide resistance monitoring program, support integrated pest management research, talk with growers to collect data for minor uses, and help with registrations, tolerances, and reregistrations with the EPA. The Secretary and the EPA Administrator must set up a grant program to pay for data to support minor-use pesticide registrations. Grants can cover up to 1/2 of a project’s cost. Anyone may apply, but priority goes to applicants who do not get money from selling those pesticides. Data made with a grant will be jointly owned by USDA and the grantee, and the grantee must agree to share any fees it receives for that data. A Minor Use Pesticide Data Revolving Fund is created in the U.S. Treasury. It can hold money across years and will receive appropriations and fees collected for grant-funded data. Congress may appropriate $10,000,000 each fiscal year for these purposes, available until spent. Secretary: the Secretary of Agriculture.