Sec. 11315. Protection of honey bees and other pollinators
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The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall carry out such activities as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to protect and ensure the long-term viability of populations of honey bees, wild bees, and other beneficial insects of agricultural crops, horticultural plants, wild plants, and other plants, including— providing technical expertise relating to proposed agency actions that may threaten pollinator health or jeopardize the long-term viability of populations of pollinators; providing formal guidance on national policies relating to— permitting managed honey bees to forage on National Forest Service lands where compatible with other natural resource management priorities; and planting and maintaining managed honey bee and native pollinator forage on National Forest Service lands where compatible with other natural resource management priorities; making use of the best available peer-reviewed science regarding environmental and chemical stressors on pollinator health; and regularly monitoring and reporting on the health and population status of managed and native pollinators including bees, birds, bats, and other species.
The Secretary shall establish a task force— to coordinate Federal efforts carried out on or after the date of enactment of this Act to address the serious worldwide decline in bee health, especially honey bees and declining native bees; and to assess Federal efforts to mitigate pollinator losses and threats to the United States commercial beekeeping industry. The task force established under this subsection shall seek ongoing consultation from any Federal agency carrying out activities important to bee health and commercial beekeeping, including officials from— the Department of Agriculture; the Department of the Interior; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Food and Drug Administration; the Department of Commerce; and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection. The task force established under this subsection shall consult with beekeeper, conservation, scientist, and agricultural stakeholders. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the task force established under subsection
(b)shall submit to Congress a report that— summarizes Federal activities carried out pursuant to subsection
(f)of section of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 ( 7 U.S.C. 5925 ) (as redesignated by section 7209) or any other provision of law (including regulations) to address bee decline; summarizes international efforts to address the decline of managed honey bees and native pollinators; and provides recommendations to Congress regarding how to better coordinate Federal agency efforts to address the decline of managed honey bees and native pollinators. The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, may conduct feasibility studies regarding— re-locating existing honey bee and native pollinator research from Federal laboratories to a cooperator-run facility in a location most geographically appropriate for pollinator research; and modernizing existing honey bee research laboratories identified by the Agricultural Research Service in the capital investment strategy document dated 2012. In conducting the feasibility studies under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall consult with— beekeeper, native bee, agricultural, research institution, and bee conservation stakeholders regarding new research laboratory needs under paragraph (1)(A); and commercial beekeepers regarding the modernizing of existing honey bee laboratories under paragraph (1)(B).
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Sec. 11315
Protection of honey bees and other pollinators
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