A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

                                                                                                                                               

REGULATORY: EPA, FWS

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Notice announcing EPA’s recent findings that, under the Toxic Substances Control Act, a new chemical substance or significant new use is not likely to present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. Info here.

Notice announcing a proposed extension of an information collection request on the Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program Annual Measures Reporting. Info here.

Notice announcing a process for stakeholders to submit nomination letters to the EPA and U.S. Department of the Army for one of ten geographically focused roundtables. The roundtables are to discuss the revision of the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Info here.

Notice in accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by the registrants to voluntarily cancel their registrations of certain products and to amend certain product registrations to terminate uses. Info here.

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Notice announcing that FWS received an application for an incidental take permit to take the federally listed Delhi Sands flower-loving fly under the Endangered Species Act. Info here.

Proposed rule announcing that FWS proposes critical habitat for the coastal distinct population segment of Pacific marten (coastal marten) (Martes caurina), a mammal species from coastal California and Oregon, under the Endangered Species Act. In total, approximately 1,413,305 acres (571,965 hectares) in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon fall within the boundaries of the proposed critical habitat designation. If we finalize this rule as proposed, it would extend the Act’s protections to this entity’s critical habitat. Info here.

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