| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1471-M, sub-§7, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 389, §1, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | 7. Data collection; annual report. The board shall implement | | a system of record keeping, reporting, data collection and | | analysis that provides information on the quantity of product and | | brand names of pesticides sold. The board, in cooperation with | | the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service, shall | | study ways to improve pesticide information data bases and to | | optimize the useful analysis of reported information. |
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| | | No later than October 1, 1998, and each year thereafter, the | | board shall publish an annual pesticides report containing the | | quantity of product, sorted by the name and United States | | Environmental Protection Agency registration number, of all | | pesticides sold in the prior year, with the data further sorted | | by sector of use wherever possible, except that the pesticides | | report under this subsection is not required in the years 2000 | | and 2001. |
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| | | Sec. 2. State Board of Pesticides Control; progress report. During the First | | Regular Session of the 120th Legislature, the State Board of | | Pesticides Control shall report to the joint standing committee | | of the Legislature having jurisdiction over agricultural matters | | on the board's discussions regarding data collection and progress | | in developing methods to increase the reliability and usefulness | | of data collected on pesticide use. The joint standing committee | | of the Legislature having jurisdiction over agricultural matters | | may report out legislation to the Second Regular Session of the | | 120th Legislature regarding data collection and reporting of | | pesticide use. |
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| | | The State Board of Pesticides Control will realize some minor | | savings in fiscal years 1999-00 and 2000-01 from not having to | | publish certain reports in the years 2000 and 2001. |
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| | | This bill suspends for 2 years the statutory requirement that | | the State Board of Pesticides Control submit an annual report | | containing the quantity of pesticide products sold the previous | | year sorted by name and registration number of the pesticides. | | It directs the board to report on its progress in developing a | | preferred method of data collection and reporting to |
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