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CITE

    7 USC Sec. 136r                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 7 - AGRICULTURE
    CHAPTER 6 - INSECTICIDES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE CONTROL
    SUBCHAPTER II - ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE CONTROL

HEAD

    Sec. 136r. Research and monitoring

STATUTE

    (a) Research
      The Administrator shall undertake research including research by
    grant or contract with other Federal agencies, universities, or
    others as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this
    subchapter, and the Administrator shall conduct research into
    integrated pest management in coordination with the Secretary of
    Agriculture. The Administrator shall also take care to ensure that
    such research does not duplicate research being undertaken by any
    other Federal agency.
    (b) National monitoring plan
      The Administrator shall formulate and periodically revise, in
    cooperation with other Federal, State, or local agencies, a
    national plan for monitoring pesticides.
    (c) Monitoring
      The Administrator shall undertake such monitoring activities,
    including, but not limited to monitoring in air, soil, water, man,
    plants, and animals, as may be necessary for the implementation of
    this subchapter and of the national pesticide monitoring plan. The
    Administrator shall establish procedures for the monitoring of man
    and animals and their environment for incidential (!1) pesticide
    exposure, including, but not limited to, the quantification of
    incidental human and environmental pesticide pollution and the
    secular trends thereof, and identification of the sources of
    contamination and their relationship to human and environmental
    effects. Such activities shall be carried out in cooperation with
    other Federal, State, and local agencies.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1947, ch. 125, Sec. 20, as added Pub. L. 92-516, Sec. 2,
    Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 996; amended Pub. L. 95-396, Sec. 20, Sept.
    30, 1978, 92 Stat. 834; Pub. L. 102-237, title X, Sec. 1006(a)(10),
    (b)(1), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1895.)

AMENDMENTS

      1991 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-237 substituted "ensure" for
    "insure" and "the Administrator" for "he" before "shall conduct".
      1978 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-396, Sec. 20(1), substituted in
    first sentence "shall conduct research into integrated pest
    management in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture" for
    "shall give priority to research to develop biologically integrated
    alternatives for pest control".
      Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95-396, Sec. 20(2), inserted provision
    requiring establishment of monitoring procedures and the carrying
    out of the activities in cooperation with other Federal, State, and
    local agencies.
                              EFFECTIVE DATE
      For effective date of section, see section 4 of Pub. L. 92-516,
    set out as a note under section 136 of this title.
                          AVAILABILITY OF GRANTS
      Pub. L. 106-74, title III, Oct. 20, 1999, 113 Stat. 1081,
    provided in part: "That notwithstanding 7 U.S.C. 136r and 15 U.S.C.
    2609, beginning in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, grants awarded
    under section 20 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
    Rodenticide Act [7 U.S.C. 136r], as amended, and section 10 of the
    Toxic Substances Control Act [15 U.S.C. 2609], as amended, shall be
    available for research, development, monitoring, public education,
    training, demonstrations, and studies".

FOOTNOTE

    (!1) So in original. Probably should be "incidental".