---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 136w–6"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "136w–6"
heading: "Environmental Protection Agency minor use program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/136w-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Insecticides and Environmental Pesticide Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Environmental Pesticide Control"
---

# §136w–6. Environmental Protection Agency minor use program

- (a) The [Administrator](/usc/7/136.md?p=b) shall assure coordination of [minor use](/usc/7/136.md?p=ll) issues through the [establishment](/usc/7/136.md?p=dd) of a [minor use](/usc/7/136.md?p=ll) program within the Office of [Pesticide](/usc/7/136.md?p=u) Programs. Such office shall be responsible for coordinating the development of [minor use](/usc/7/136.md?p=ll) programs and policies and consulting with growers regarding [minor use](/usc/7/136.md?p=ll) issues and [registrations](/usc/7/136.md?p=z) and amendments which are submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency.
- (b) The Office of [Pesticide](/usc/7/136.md?p=u) Programs shall prepare a public report concerning the progress made on the [registration](/usc/7/136.md?p=z) of [minor uses](/usc/7/136.md?p=ll), including implementation of the exclusive use as an incentive for registering new [minor uses](/usc/7/136.md?p=ll), within 3 years of the passage of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.

## Source credit

(June 25, 1947, ch. 125, § 31, as added Pub. L. 104–170, title II, § 210(i), Aug. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 1500.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The passage of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, referred to in subsec. (b), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 104–170, which was approved Aug. 3, 1996.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 31 of act June 25, 1947, ch. 125, was renumbered section 35 and is classified to section 136y of this title.