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

REGULATORY: AMS, CFTC, EPA

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE

Proposed rule proposing to implement a recommendation from the Kiwifruit Administrative Committee to modify the handling regulations prescribed under the Federal marketing order for kiwifruit grown in California. Info here.

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

Final rule announcing the fees for review of the rule enforcement programs of the designated contract markets and registered futures associations. Info here.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Final rule announcing the EPA’s receipt of an initial filing of a pesticide petition requesting the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of a pesticide chemical in or on various commodities. Info here.

Notice announcing that the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, signed by the President on March 15, 2022, Congress provided $5 million in budget authority solely for the cost of direct loans or guaranteed loans to state infrastructure financing authority borrowers for projects described in Section 5026(9) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014. Info here.

Notice announcing that the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, signed by the President on March 15, 2022, Congress provided $58.5 million in budget authority for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 program to cover the subsidy required to provide a much larger amount of credit assistance. Info here.

Notice announcing a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Mitigation of Contaminated Transboundary Flows Project. Info here.