[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1913 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1913

   To authorize registration of Canadian pesticides for agricultural 
                                 crops.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 1999

   Mr. Pomeroy (for himself, Mr. Hill of Montana, and Mr. Baldacci) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize registration of Canadian pesticides for agricultural 
                                 crops.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pesticide Registration Harmonization 
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO HARMONIZATION OF REGISTRATION OF 
              CERTAIN PESTICIDES FOR USE ON AGRICULTURAL CROPS.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the 
President should direct the United States representative to the United 
States-Canada Technical Working Group (hereafter referred to as 
``TWG'') to use the voice and vote of the United States to urge the TWG 
to make the harmonization of registration of pesticides described in 
subsection (b) the highest priority.
    (b) Pesticide Defined.--For purposes of this Act, a pesticide is a 
crop protection product which is registered in Canada for use on 
agricultural crops and which is not registered in the United States for 
use on such crops but is registered in the United States for other food 
use crops.

SEC. 3. ACCEPTANCE OF REGISTRATION FOR CERTAIN PESTICIDES.

    (a) Acceptance of Registration.--Within 180 days of receiving a 
written request from the registrant of a pesticide in Canada, the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (hereafter 
referred to as the ``Administrator'') shall accept registration of the 
pesticide for use in the United States on the same crops as it is 
registered for in Canada unless the Administrator determines that 
substantial evidence exists to preclude United States acceptance of the 
registration.
    (b) Acceptance Requirement.--To be eligible for acceptance of a 
pesticide under subsection (a), the registrant shall submit with its 
request--
            (1) copies of all the data and other registration materials 
        submitted to and approved by the Pesticide Management and 
        Registration Agency of Canada; and
            (2) an estimate of the expected use of the pesticide on the 
        crops subject to acceptance and an explanation of how total use 
        of the pesticide on all crops will be made to conform with the 
        applicable requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
        and Rodenticide Act.
    (c) Priorities.--In deciding whether to accept a registration, the 
Administrator shall take into account the priority of harmonizing 
registrations of pesticides between the United States and Canada, as 
established in the Canada-United States Trade Agreement and the North 
American Free Trade Agreement. A request submitted under this section 
for pesticide registration shall not be counted against any other 
priority submitted by a registrant.
    (d) Denial.--In the event registration of a pesticide is denied, 
the Administrator shall publicly identify the reasons and causes for 
the denial.

SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Act, and 
every year thereafter, the United States representative to the TWG 
shall report to appropriate committees of Congress on the status of TWG 
efforts to harmonize registrations of pesticides for use on 
agricultural crops in the United States and Canada.
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