§136w–3 Identification of Pests; Cooperation with Department of Agriculture’s Program

Summary

The Administrator must work with the Secretary of Agriculture to find which pests need to be controlled and to improve safe, effective ways to fight them using chemicals, biological tools, or other methods. The Secretary must, not later than 180 days after November 28, 1990, and every year after that, send a report to the Administrator. The report must list available control methods by crop or animal, note minor or localized pest problems, explain why some methods are limited (for example by resistance or rules), point out where there are shortages of control options, and describe research and outreach planned to fix those shortages. The Administrator and the Secretary must create pest-control plans that use integrated pest management and focus on producers’ needs, especially for minor pests. The Administrator, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must also identify pests that affect public health and work with the Public Health Service to make programs that improve the safe and necessary use of control methods for those pests.