Bill > HR9357

This bill, known as the Paraquat Prevention Act, aims to immediately cancel the registration of all uses of the pesticide paraquat, a herbicide used to control weeds. It directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to declare paraquat as generally causing unreasonable adverse effects on the environment, a term defined in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which is the primary law governing pesticide regulation in the United States. Following this cancellation, the EPA Administrator must also revoke any existing tolerances or exemptions that permit paraquat or its residues to be present in food, as outlined in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Furthermore, the bill prohibits the sale and use of any existing stocks of paraquat and prevents the EPA from reregistering paraquat under FIFRA.