LUCAS INTRODUCES NPDES FIX IN HOUSE
News Date August 17, 2010
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), Ranking Member of the House Agriculture Committee, introduced legislation (H.R. 6087) in the House last week that would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to clarify that additional permits are not required for pesticide applications made in accordance with FIFRA. Lucas’s bill is companion legislation to S. 3735 which was introduced earlier this month in the Senate by Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). Both bills would clarify that permits under the Clean Water Act (CWA), for example, are not required for pesticide applications that comply with FIFRA.
NASDA joined last week with a number of other agricultural organizations in signing a letter of support of the Lincoln/Chambliss legislation. (Contact: Nathan Bowen)