Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Uses (December 2025)
Published Date: 2/2/2026
Notice
Summary
The EPA just announced it’s reviewing new requests to use existing pesticides in new ways. If you’re a farmer, gardener, or pesticide maker, this could affect you! Comments on these applications are open until March 4, 2026, so now’s the time to speak up before any changes happen.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
Public comment window: March 4, 2026
You can submit public comments on the pesticide new-use registration applications online at https://www.regulations.gov. Comments must be received on or before March 4, 2026, and the notice directs commenters not to submit Confidential Business Information (CBI) through regulations.gov.
Fluazifop-p-butyl proposed for sod farms
EPA received an application from Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC to register the active ingredient Fluazifop-p-butyl as a herbicide for use on sod farms. The application (EPA Registration Numbers 100-1001; 100-1084, docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-3296) was received August 27, 2025 and is being evaluated by EPA.
Trifluralin proposed for pennycress
EPA received an application from Drexel Chemical Company to register the active ingredient Trifluralin as a herbicide for use on pennycress. The application (EPA Registration Numbers 19713-254 & 19713-683, docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-3295) was received August 7, 2025 and is under evaluation by EPA.
Clomazone proposed for turfgrass
EPA received an application from Spicam Agro USA, Inc. to register the active ingredient Clomazone as a herbicide for use on turfgrass. The application (EPA Registration Numbers 60063-87, 60063-58, docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-3294) was received June 12, 2025 and is being evaluated by EPA.
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