INSECTS

Bills and resolutions

Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund: establish (see S. 3568), S6454 [19SE]

EPA: implement integrated pest management systems to minimize pesticide use in schools and provide parents and employees with notices of such use (see H.R. 4225), H1427 [20MR]

Foreign trade: establish U.S. trade negotiating objectives relative to application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures to agricultural products to facilitate trade in agriculture (see H.R. 6538), H6276 [21SE]

Forests: address bark beetle epidemic, drought, deteriorating forest health, and wildfire risk on Federal lands and increase State control of forest management in high-risk areas (see H.R. 6089), H4684 [9JY]

——— improve response to insect infestations and forest diseases, change the Healthy Forests Reserve Program funding source, codify stewardship end result contracting, and improve post fire rehabilitation (see H.R. 5960), H3806 [19JN]

National forests: declare state of emergency and implement hazardous fuel reduction projects for extreme fire hazard and unsafe conditions caused by pine beetle infestations, drought, disease, or storm damage (see S. 2277), S2243 [29MR] (see H.R. 4331), H1804 [29MR]

Tariff: portable personal area mosquito repellents (see S. 2531), S2922 [7MY] (see H.R. 5279), H2273 [27AP]

Remarks in House

Dept. of HHS: establish a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee (H.R. 2557), E1303 [24JY]

Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture: enter into contracts with States to treat insect-infested trees and clear hazardous fuel to prevent wildfires, H3785 [19JN]

Remarks in Senate

Foreign trade: establish U.S. trade negotiating objectives relative to application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures to agricultural products to facilitate trade in agriculture, S7653 [6DE]

Forest Service: hazardous fuel reduction projects funding, S4660 [27JN]

——— reduce risk of catastrophic wildfire through the facilitation of insect and disease infestation treatment of national forests and adjacents lands, S4127 [13JN], S4660 [27JN]

Forests: trees killed by bark beetles removal funding, S3891 [11JN], S4127 [13JN], S4339 [20JN]

Reports filed

Citrus, Wool, and Cotton Trust Fund Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 3568), S6451 [19SE]

——— Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 3568) (S. Rept. 112–227), S6545 [20SE]

Safeguarding American Agriculture Act: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Senate) (S. 1673) (S. Rept. 112–240), S6894 [26NO]