(c)
Set-Aside for Expedited Rulemaking and Guidance Development for Certain Purposes.— Paragraph (4) of section 4(k) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (
7 U.S.C. 136a–1(k)) is amended to read as follows:
“(4) Expedited rulemaking and guidance development for certain product performance data requirements.—
“(A) Set-aside.—For each of fiscal years 2018 through 2023, the Administrator shall use not more than $500,000 of the amounts made available to the Administrator in the Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund for the activities described in subparagraph (B).
“(B) Products claiming efficacy against invertebrate pests of significant public health or economic importance.—The Administrator shall use amounts made available under subparagraph (A) to develop, receive comments with respect to, finalize, and implement the necessary rulemaking and guidance for product performance data requirements to evaluate products claiming efficacy against the following invertebrate pests of significant public health or economic importance (in order of importance):
“(i) Bed bugs.
“(ii) Premise (including crawling insects, flying insects, and baits).
“(iii) Pests of pets (including pet pests controlled by spot-ons, collars, shampoos, powders, or dips).
“(iv) Fire ants.
“(C) Deadlines for guidance.—The Administrator shall develop, and publish guidance required by subparagraph (B), with respect to claims of efficacy against pests described in such subparagraph as follows:
“(i) With respect to bed bugs, issue final guidance not later than 30 days after the effective date of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2018.
“(ii) With respect to pests specified in clause (ii) of such subparagraph—
“(I) submit draft guidance to the Scientific Advisory Panel and for public comment not later than June 30, 2018; and
“(II) complete any response to comments received with respect to such draft guidance and finalize the guidance not later than September 30, 2019.
“(iii) With respect to pests specified in clauses (iii) and (iv) of such subparagraph—
“(I) submit draft guidance to the Scientific Advisory Panel and for public comment not later than June 30, 2019; and
“(II) complete any response to comments received with respect to such draft guidance and finalize the guidance not later than March 31, 2021.
“(D) Revision.—The Administrator shall revise the guidance required by subparagraph (B) from time to time, but shall permit applicants and registrants sufficient time to obtain data that meet the requirements specified in such revised guidance.
“(E) Deadline for product performance data requirements.—The Administrator shall, not later than September 30, 2021, issue regulations prescribing product performance data requirements for any pesticide intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any invertebrate pest of significant public health or economic importance specified in clauses (i) through (iv) of subparagraph (B).”
(d)
Set-Aside for Good Laboratory Practices Inspections.— Section 4(k) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (
7 U.S.C. 136a–1(k)) is
amended—
(1)
by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs (6) and (7), respectively;
(2)
by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph:
“(5) Good laboratory practices inspections.—
“(A) Set-aside.—For each of fiscal years 2018 through 2023, the Administrator shall use not more than $500,000 of the amounts made available to the Administrator in the Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund for the activities described in subparagraph (B).
“(B) Activities.—The Administrator shall use amounts made available under subparagraph (A) for enhancements to the good laboratory practices standards compliance monitoring program established under part 160 of title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), with respect to laboratory inspections and data audits conducted in support of pesticide product registrations under this Act. As part of such monitoring program, the Administrator shall make available to each laboratory inspected under such program in support of such registrations a preliminary summary of inspection observations not later than 60 days after the date on which such an inspection is completed.”
; and
(3)
in paragraph (7), as so redesignated, by striking “ paragraphs (2), (3), and (4)” and inserting “ paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5)”.