7 U.S.C. § 5506
Water policy with respect to agrichemicals
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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The Department of Agriculture shall be the principal Federal agency responsible and accountable for the development and delivery of educational programs, technical assistance, and research programs for the users and dealers of agrichemicals to insure that—
The authority granted in subsection (a) does not alter or effect the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.).
The following agencies shall participate in the Department’s water program: the Agricultural Research Service; the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, in conjunction with the system of State agricultural experiment stations and State and county cooperative extension services; the Economic Research Service; the Forest Service; the National Agricultural Library; the National Agricultural Statistics Service; the Soil Conservation Service; and other agencies within the Department deemed appropriate by the Secretary.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
- Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991House: 417–5Senate: no recorded tally
- Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
- Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
- Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008