[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 29, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S454]
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                      MAKING TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS

  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the 
consideration of S. 2571.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2571) to make technical corrections to the 
     Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent the bill be read three times and 
passed; the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table; that there be 
no intervening action or debate; that any statements be printed in the 
Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2571) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2571

       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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