7 U.S.C. § 136w–7 — Department of Agriculture minor use program

(a) In general The Secretary of Agriculture must make sure the Department's work on minor pesticide uses is coordinated. This includes: (1) running the Inter-Regional Project Number 4 (IR–4), as described in section 2 of Public Law 89–106, and the national pesticide resistance monitoring program set up under the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990; (2) supporting research on integrated pest management; (3) consulting with growers to develop data for minor uses; and (4) helping with minor use registrations, tolerances, and reregistrations submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency. (b) Minor use pesticide data and revolving fund Paragraph (1), Grant authority: The Secretary, working with the Administrator, must set up a program of grants. These grants pay for developing data to support registering or reregistering pesticides for minor uses. A grant cannot cover more than half the cost of the project it funds. Applicants: Anyone who wants to develop this kind of data may apply for a grant. Applicants who do not get money directly from selling pesticides registered for minor uses get priority. Data ownership: Data developed with a grant is jointly owned by the Department of Agriculture and the person who got the grant. That person must agree to share with the Secretary any fee they are paid under section 136a(c)(1)(F). Paragraph (2), Minor Use Pesticide Data Revolving Fund: This section creates a revolving fund in the U.S. Treasury, called the Minor Use Pesticide Data Revolving Fund. It stays available with no fiscal-year limit, for the purposes of this subsection. Contents of the Fund: Two kinds of money go into the Fund: money Congress appropriates for this purpose, and fees the Secretary collects for data developed under the grants described above. Authorizations of appropriations: Congress may appropriate up to $10,000,000 each fiscal year for this subsection. That money stays available until it is spent.