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H. Rept. 115-49,Part 1 1 (2017-03-20)

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                       115TH CONGRESS                                            REPT. 115-49
                          1st Session      HOUSE   OF  REPRESENTATIVES              Part 1






                        PESTICIDE REGISTRATION ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2017



                        MARCH  20, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
                                           of the Union and ordered to be printed



                                Mr. CONAWAY, from the Committee on Agriculture,
                                              submitted   the  following


                                                  REPORT

                                                [To accompany H.R. 1029]

                                 [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                         The  Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
                      (H.R.   1029)   to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
                      Rodenticide   Act  to improve   pesticide registration  and  other  activi-
                      ties under   the  Act, to extend   and  modify   fee authorities,  and  for
                      other  purposes,  having  considered   the same,  report favorably  there-
                      on  with  an  amendment and recommend that the bill as amended
                      do  pass.
                         The  amendment is as follows:
                         Strike all after the enacting  clause  and  insert the following:
                      SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
                        (a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Pesticide Registration Enhance-
                      ment Act of 2017.
                        (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
                      Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
                      Sec. 2. Extension and modification of maintenance fee authority.
                      Sec. 3. Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund.
                      Sec. 4. Experimental use permits for pesticides.
                      Sec. 5. Pesticide registration service fees.
                      Sec. 6. Revision of tables regarding covered pesticide registration applications and other covered actions and
                             their corresponding registration service fees.
                      SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF MAINTENANCE FEE AUTHORITY.
                        (a) MAINTENANCE  FEE.-Section 4(i)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
                      Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136a-1(i)(1)) is amended-
                            (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking an aggregate amount of $27,800,000 for
                          each of fiscal years 2013 through 2017 and inserting an average amount of
                          $31,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2023;
                            (2) in subparagraph (D)-
                                (A) in clause (i), by striking $115,500 for each of fiscal years 2013
                              through 2017 and inserting $129,400 for each of fiscal years 2017 through
                              2023; and


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