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H.R. 1029, Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2017 1 (July 21, 2017)

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                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                              COST ESTIMATE

                                                                     July 21, 2017


                                  H.R.   1029
        Pesticide  Registration  Improvement Extension Act of 2017

      As reported by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
                                 on June 29, 2017


SUMMARY

H.R. 1029 would modify the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(FIFRA), the law that regulates the distribution, sale, and use of pesticides. Under
FIFRA,  the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to evaluate the safety of
new pesticides entering the market (known as pesticide registration) by conducting risk
assessments and must periodically re-evaluate the health and environmental effects of
pesticides (known as reregistration). The EPA charges fees to pesticide manufacturers
and distributors to cover the agency's costs of performing those registration and
reregistration activities.

The act would extend the agency's authority to charge those fees-currently set to expire
in 2018-and  also would increase the total amount of fees that the agency is allowed to
charge. CBO estimates that the collection of additional fees would be offset by additional
spending, resulting in no significant net effect on direct spending, or spending subject to
appropriation, over the 2018-2027 period.

Because enacting H.R. 1029 would affect direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures
apply. Enacting the legislation would not affect revenues.

CBO  estimates that enacting H.R. 1029 would not increase net direct spending or on-
budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.

H.R. 1029 would impose intergovernmental and private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded  Mandates Reform Act (UMRA).   CBO  estimates that the cost of those
mandates would fall below the annual thresholds for intergovernmental and private-sector
mandates established in UMRA ($78 million and $156 million in 2017, respectively,
adjusted annually for inflation).

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