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May 25, 2017
The Office of Pesticide Products (OPP) is authorized in the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, which sets timelines for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and register pesticides, as well as collect fees from registrants for products. Before registrants are required to pay these fees, Congress is supposed to meet a minimum appropriation of $128.3 million per year.
In recent years however, the Appropriations Committee has waived funding provisions, providing only $120 million per year, thus leading to inadequate funding, a decrease in staffing and delays in the review, registration and renewal of pesticide products.
This lack of funding means that producers don’t have access to crop protection tools they need or may be required to wait another planting season before these options become available.
Please contact your Senators through the Soy Action Center and ask them to contact leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee to express support for funding OPP at the statutory level of $128.3 million before the May 24 deadline for the Senate Interior and Environment Subcommittee appropriations request.
If you have any questions or get any feedback from your Senate offices, please contact Renee Munasifi in the ASA Washington office at rmunasifi@soy.org or 202-969-7040.
