[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 2571 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2571

 To make technical corrections to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
                          and Rodenticide Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 29, 2008

  Mr. Harkin (for himself and Mr. Chambliss) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make technical corrections to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
                          and Rodenticide Act.

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

SECTION 1. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, 
              AND RODENTICIDE ACT.

    (a) Pesticide Registration Service Fees.--Section 33 of the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136w-8) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(7)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (D)--
                            (i) by striking clause (i) and inserting 
                        the following:
                            ``(i) In general.--The Administrator may 
                        exempt from, or waive a portion of, the 
                        registration service fee for an application for 
                        minor uses for a pesticide.''; and
                            (ii) in clause (ii), by inserting ``or 
                        exemption'' after ``waiver''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (E)--
                            (i) in the paragraph heading, by striking 
                        ``Waiver'' and inserting ``Exemption'';
                            (ii) by striking ``waive the registration 
                        service fee for an application'' and inserting 
                        ``exempt an application from the registration 
                        service fee''; and
                            (iii) in clause (ii), by striking 
                        ``waiver'' and inserting ``exemption''; and
            (2) in subsection (m)(2), by striking ``2008'' each place 
        it appears and inserting ``2012''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) take 
effect on October 1, 2007.
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