Sec. 10013. REPORTS TO CONGRESS
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## SEC. 10013 REPORTS TO CONGRESS ###
(a)In General Not later than 180 days and 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture and the Interior shall submit to the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and Environment and Public Works of the Senate, 2 reports that describe approaches and actions taken by the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service— ####
(1)to implement recommendations, including an analysis of how any identified delays to implementation will be overcome, of the 2013 Expert Report authored by the National Research Council of the National Academies entitled “Assessing Risks to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides”; ####
(2)to otherwise minimize delays in integrating— #####
(A)the pesticide registration and registration review requirements of sections 3 and 33 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136a, 136w-8); and #####
(B)the species and habitat protection processes described in sections 7 and 10 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536, 1539); and ####
(3)to ensure public participation and transparency during the development, implementation, and evaluation of the approaches to implement the recommendations contained in the report described in paragraph (1). ###
(b)Requirement for Final Report In addition to the requirements of subsection (a), the final report submitted to Congress under that subsection shall— ####
(1)inform Congress of specific actions that have been and will be taken to address the recommendations identified in subsection (a)(1), including an evaluation to establish that— #####
(A)the approaches utilize the best available science; #####
(B)reasonable and prudent alternatives within biological opinions are technologically and economically feasible; #####
(C)reasonable and prudent measures are necessary and appropriate; and #####
(D)the agencies ensure public participation and transparency in the development of reasonable and prudent alternatives and reasonable and prudent measures; and ####
(2)update the study and report required by subsections
(b)and
(c)of section 1010 of Public Law 100-478 (7 U.S.C. 136a note).
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- Pub. L. 100-478
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