H.R. 5564 – To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for…

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This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require the EPA Administrator to coordinate more closely with the USDA Secretary on pesticide risk‑mitigation, data sharing, and endangered‑species actions. It adds requirements for joint development of mitigation measures, public economic analyses, and transparent use of USDA‑provided data, while allowing waivers if all parties agree. The changes affect how pesticides are registered, reviewed, and managed, impacting growers, state agencies, and other pesticide users.

Key Provisions

When a pesticide needs risk‑mitigation measures, the EPA must develop those measures together with the USDA Secretary and publish an economic analysis of costs to growers, state agencies, and others, plus a cost‑benefit assessment of the pesticide’s use.
For pesticide registration or review, the EPA must coordinate with USDA to obtain agronomic use data and information on alternative products, and must disclose in the public docket how that data was used—or why it was not used.
The EPA must work with USDA, the Interior Department, and Commerce when implementing “reasonable and prudent” actions for endangered species under the Endangered Species Act, ensuring those actions consider pesticide risk‑benefit analyses and providing feedback to the other agencies.
The coordination requirements can be waived or modified if EPA, USDA, and the pesticide registrant agree, with the waiver published in the docket.

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee

December 2, 2025

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Introduced in House

September 26, 2025

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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Agriculture Committee

September 26, 2025

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee

December 2, 2025

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Introduced in HouseIssued September 26, 2025

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119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 5564

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 26, 2025

Mr. Arrington (for himself and Mr. Alford) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for improved coordination between the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.

1.

Coordination

Section 3 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136a) is amended by adding at the end the following:

(i)

Coordination

(1)

Risk mitigation measures

If any risk mitigation measures are required for any pesticide registered under this Act, the Administrator shall—

(A)

develop such measures in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture; and

(B)

conduct, and publish in the docket, with the corresponding action, an economic analysis—

(i)

determining the cost (including with respect to changes to use requirements and cost of making any associated labeling changes) to growers, State lead agencies, and other affected entities of the implementation of such measures; and

(ii)

of the costs and benefits of the use of a pesticide that includes an assessment of how a reduction in risk to the pesticide user may be achieved by the use of risk mitigation measures.

(2)

Data and information

(A)

Coordination of data and information

With regard to the registration or registration review of a pesticide under this Act and for making a determination under section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 346a) with respect to any action that impacts the sale, distribution, or use of a pesticide, the Administrator shall coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Director of the Office of Pest Management Policy, so that the Administrator has for the Administrator’s use and consideration for such processes—

(i)

agronomic use data from—

(I)

the Department of Agriculture; and

(II)

industry; and

(ii)

any information relating to the availability and economic viability of alternatives to such pesticide.

(B)

Data and information

When issuing any decision resulting from the processes referred to in subparagraph (A), the Administrator shall publish in the docket—

(i)

a description of the use by the Administrator of any data or information provided by the Secretary of Agriculture under subparagraph (A); and

(ii)

the determination of the Administrator on whether to use such data or information, including, as applicable, the reasons that the data or information was not used.

(3)

Reasonable and prudent actions and measures

For the implementation of reasonable and prudent actions and measures identified by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536) with respect to the use of a pesticide registered under this Act, the Administrator shall coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Commerce—

(A)

to review the development of any such actions and measures that are a result of consultations relating to actions under this Act;

(B)

to fully consider the options for reasonable and prudent actions and measures in a manner consistent with practices established to evaluate the risks and benefits of a pesticide registered under this Act (including the reduction in risk to the pesticide user achieved by the use of risk mitigation measures) and to use that information to inform the final selection of reasonable and prudent actions and measures to be used to evaluate such risks and benefits and the implementation of such selection; and

(C)

to provide feedback to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce on decisions relating to any such actions and measures that may affect end users of a pesticide registered under this Act.

(4)

Waiver

The coordination requirements imposed by this subsection may be waived or modified for a specific action to the extent agreed upon by the Administrator, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the registrant so long as such agreement is published by the Administrator in the docket for the corresponding action.

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