Final Regulations for Plant-Pesticides (Plant-Incorporated Protectants); Notification to the Secretary of Agriculture

Zusammenfassung

This document notifies the public that the Administrator of EPA has forwarded to the Secretary of Agriculture, a draft final rule under section 25(a) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The substances plants produce for protection against pests are pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act definition of pesticide, if humans intend to use these substances for "preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest." These substances, produced and used in living plants, along with the genetic material necessary to produce them, are currently called "plant-pesticides" by EPA. In this final rule, EPA will rename these pesticides, calling them "plant-incorporated protectants," will exempt a category of plant-pesticides, will clarify the relationship between plants and plant-pesticides and confirm that plants used as biological control agents are exempt from regulation under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, and will establish new part 174 in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, specifically for plant-pesticides.