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Petition for Rulemaking to Limit Specific Emergency Exemptions to Two Years under FIFRA

This petition from Center for Biological Diversity dated February 20, 2020, asks that EPA initiate rulemaking to limit specific emergency exemptions for pesticide use to two years under Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S. C. § 136p.

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