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

REGULATORY: Includes EPA, NOAA

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Notice that EPA has received applications to register new uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active ingredients pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Info here.

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Final Rule requiring commercial groundfish bottom longline vessels 26 feet length overall or longer managed under the Pacific Coast Groundfishery Management Plan to use streamer lines when setting gear or to set gear between civil dusk and civil dawn when fishing in Federal water north of 36 degrees North latitude. Info here.

Temporary Rule implementing an accountability measure for the recreational sector for the snapper-grouper deep-water complex in the South Atlantic for the 2019 fishing year. Info here.

STATUTORY: Includes New York

NEW YORK

SB 6184 relates to the growth of industrial hemp, the regulation of hemp extract, and provides for the licensing of cannabinoid related hemp extract and the requirements for such licenses. Info here.