1.1 FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND (Since the latest amendments have not been codified, see 1.1k for text) 1.1k FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE October 21, 1972, P.L. 92-516, 86 Stat. 973 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972". AMENDMENTS TO FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT SEC. 2. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 135 et seq.) is amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. "(a) SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the 'Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act'. "(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— "Section 1. Short title and table of contents. "(bb) Unreasonable adverse effects on the environment. "(cc) Weed. "(dd) Establishment. "Sec. 3. Registration of pesticides. "(a) Requirement. "(b) Exemptions. "(c) Procedure for registration. "(1) Statement required. "(2) Data in support of registration. "(3) Time for acting with respect to application. "(4) Notice of application. “(5) Approval of registration. "(6) Denial of registration. [p. 1] "(d) Classification of pesticides. "(1) Classification for general use, restricted use, or both. "(e) Products with same formulation and claims. "(1) Effect of change of labeling or formulation. '(3) Authority to consult other Federal agencies. "(1) Federal certification. "(b) State plans. "Sec. 5. Experimental use permits. "Sec. 16. Administrative procedure; judicial review. "(a) District court review. "(b) Review by Court of Appeals. "(c) Jurisdiction of district courts. 66 (d) Notice of judgments. "Sec. 17. Imports and exports. "(a) Pesticides and devices intended for export. "(b) Cancellation notices furnished to foreign governments. "(d) Cooperation in international efforts. "(e) Regulations. "Sec. 21. Solicitation of public comments; notice of public hearings. "Sec. 22. Delegation and cooperation. "Sec. 23. State cooperation, aid, and training. "(a) Cooperative agreements. "(b) Contracts for training. "Sec. 24. Authority of States. "Sec. 25. Authority of Administrator. "(a) Regulations. "(b) Exemption of pesticides. "Sec. 26. Severability. "Sec. 27. Authorization for appropriations. "SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. "For purposes of this Act "(a) ACTIVE INGREDIENT.-The term 'active ingredient' means— "(1) in the case of a pesticide other than a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest; "(2) in the case of a plant regulator, an ingredient which. through physiological action, will accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants or the product thereof; "(3) in the case of a defoliant, an ingredient which will cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant; and "(4) in the case of a desiccant, an ingredient which will artificially accelerate the drying of plant tissue. "(b) ADMINISTRATOR.-The term 'Administrator' Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. means the "(c) ADULTERATED.-The term 'adulterated' applies to any pesticide if: "(1) its strength or purity falls below the professed standard of quality as expressed on its labeling under which it is sold; 66 (2) any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the pesticide; or "(3) any valuable constituent of the pesticide has been wholly or in part abstracted. "(d) ANIMAL.-The term 'animal' means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including but not limited to man and other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish. "(e) CERTIFIED APPLICATOR, ETC. "(1) CERTIFIED APPLICATOR.-The term 'certified applicator' means any individual who is certified under section 4 as authorized to use or supervise the use of any pesticide which is classified for restricted use. "(2) PRIVATE APPLICATOR.-The term 'private applicator' means a certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any pesticide which is classified for restricted use for purposes of producing any agricultural commodity on property owned or rented by him or his employer or (if applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities) on the property of another person. "(3) COMMERCIAL APPLICATOR.-The term 'commercial applicator' means a certified applicator (whether or not he is a private applicator with respect to some uses) who uses or supervises the use of any pesticide which is classified for restricted use for any purpose or on any property other than as provided by paragraph (2). "(4) UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF A CERTIFIED APPLICATOR. Unless otherwise prescribed by its labeling, a pesticide shall be considered to be applied under the direct supervision of a certified applicator if it is applied by a competent person acting under the instructions and control of a certified applicator who is available if and when needed, even though such certified applicator is not physically present at the time and place the pesticide is applied. "(f) DEFOLIANT.-The term 'defoliant' means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission. "(g) DESICCANT.-The term 'desiccant' means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue. (h) DEVICE.-The term 'device' means any instrument or contrivance (other than a firearm) which is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest or any other form of plant or animal life (other than man and other than bacteria, virus, or other microorganism on or in living man or other living animals); but not including equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately therefrom. "(i) DISTRICT COURT.-The term 'district court' means a United States district court, the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the highest court of American Samoa. "(j) ENVIRONMENT.-The term 'environment' includes water, air, land, and all plants and man and other animals living therein, and the interrelationships which exist among these. "(k) FUNGUS.-The term 'fungus means any non-chlorophyllbearing thallophyte (that is, any non-chlorophyll-bearing plant of a lower order than mosses and liverworts), as for example, rust, smut, mildew, mold, yeast, and bacteria, except those on or in living man or other animals and those on or in processed food, beverages, or pharmaceuticals. "(1) IMMINENT HAZARD.-The term 'imminent hazard' means a situation which exists when the continued use of a pesticide during the time required for cancellation proceeding would be likely to result in unreasonable adverse effects on the environment or will involve unreasonable hazard to the survival of a species declared endangered by the Secretary of the Interior under Public Law 91-135. "(m) INERT INGREDIENT.-The term 'inert ingredient' means an ingredient which is not active. "(n) INGREDIENT STATEMENT.-The term 'ingredient statement' means a statement which contains "(1) the name and percentage of each active ingredient, and the total percentage of all inert ingredients, in the pesticide; and "(2) if the pesticide contains arsenic in any form, a statement of the percentages of total and water soluble arsenic, calculated as elementary arsenic. "(o) INSECT. The term 'insect' means any of the numerous small invertebrate animals generally having the body more or less obviously segmented, for the most part belonging to the class insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms, as for example, beetles, bugs, bees, flies, and to other allied classes of arthropods whose members are wingless and usually have more than six legs, as for example, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice. "(p) LABEL AND LABELING. "(1) LABEL.-The term 'label' means the written, printed, or graphic matter on, or attached to, the pesticide or device or any of its containers or wrappers. "(2) LABELING.-The term 'labeling' means all labels and all other written, printed, or graphic matter 66 (A) accompanying the pesticide or device at any time; or (B) to which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying the pesticide or device, except to current official publications of the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Departments of Agriculture and Interior, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, State experiment stations, State agricultural colleges, and other similar Federal or State institutions or agencies authorized by law to conduct research in the field of pesticides. "(q) MISBRANDED. "(1) A pesticide is misbranded if— "(A) its labeling bears any statement, design, or graphic representation relative thereto or to its ingredients which is false or misleading in any particular; "(B) it is contained in a package or other container or wrapping which does not conform to the standards established by the Administrator pursuant to section 25 (c) (3); "(C) it is an imitation of, or is offered for sale under the name of, another pesticide; "(D) its label does not bear the registration number assigned under section 7 to each establishment in which it was produced; "(E) any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of this Act to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs, or graphic matter in the labeling) and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use; "(F) the labeling accompanying it does not contain directions for use which are necessary for effecting the purpose for which the product is intended and if complied with, together with any requirements imposed under section 3(d) of this Act, are adequate to protect hea'th and the environment; "(G) the label does not contain a warning or caution statement which may be necessary and if complied with, together with any requirements imposed under section 3(d) of this Act, is adequate to protect health and the environment. "(2) A pesticide is misbranded if "(A) the label does not bear an ingredient statement on that part of the immediate container (and on the outside container or wrapper of the retail package, if there be one, through which the ingredient statement on the immediate container cannot be clearly read) which is presented or dis 525-313 O 73 - 2 |