The Senate Agriculture Committee plans to move a bill reauthorizing the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act “in a matter of weeks,” committee chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said following a hearing on PRIA legislation today.

 

Roberts added that was his “hope,” saying he “can’t be more definitive. We have an outrage of the week around here.”

 

The committee heard from a variety of interested parties about the benefits of PRIA, which establishes fees for registration and re-registration of pesticides, food tolerances, and dozens of other actions authorized by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The fees account for between 30 and 35 percent of the budget for EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, according to acting OPP director Rick Keigwin, who testified in support of the legislation along with Sheryl Kunickis, who heads USDA’s Office of Pest Management Policy.

 

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