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[CITE: 7USC136e]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 6--INSECTICIDES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE CONTROL
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE CONTROL
 
Sec. 136e. Registration of establishments


(a) Requirement

    No person shall produce any pesticide subject to this subchapter or 
active ingredient used in producing a pesticide subject to this 
subchapter in any State unless the establishment in which it is produced 
is registered with the Administrator. The application for registration 
of any establishment shall include the name and address of the 
establishment and of the producer who operates such establishment.

(b) Registration

    Whenever the Administrator receives an application under subsection 
(a) of this section, the Administrator shall register the establishment 
and assign it an establishment number.

(c) Information required

        (1) Any producer operating an establishment registered under 
    this section shall inform the Administrator within 30 days after it 
    is registered of the types and amounts of pesticides and, if 
    applicable, active ingredients used in producing pesticides--
            (A) which the producer is currently producing;
            (B) which the producer has produced during the past year; 
        and
            (C) which the producer has sold or distributed during the 
        past year.

    The information required by this paragraph shall be kept current and 
    submitted to the Administrator annually as required under such 
    regulations as the Administrator may prescribe.
        (2) Any such producer shall, upon the request of the 
    Administrator for the purpose of issuing a stop sale order pursuant 
    to section 136k of this title, inform the Administrator of the name 
    and address of any recipient of any pesticide produced in any 
    registered establishment which the producer operates.

(d) Confidential records and information

    Any information submitted to the Administrator pursuant to 
subsection (c) of this section other than the names of the pesticides or 
active ingredients used in producing pesticides produced, sold, or 
distributed at an establishment shall be considered confidential and 
shall be subject to the provisions of section 136h of this title.

(June 25, 1947, ch. 125, Sec. 7, as added Pub. L. 92-516, Sec. 2, Oct. 
21, 1972, 86 Stat. 987; amended Pub. L. 95-396, Sec. 13, Sept. 30, 1978, 
92 Stat. 829; Pub. L. 102-237, title X, Sec. 1006(b)(1), (3)(F), (G), 
Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1895, 1896.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7 of act June 25, 1947, was classified to section 
135e of this title prior to amendment of act June 25, 1947, by Pub. L. 
92-516.


                               Amendments

    1991--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102-237, Sec. 1006(b)(1), substituted 
``the Administrator'' for ``he'' before ``shall''.
    Subsec. (c)(1)(A) to (C). Pub. L. 102-237, Sec. 1006(b)(3)(F), 
substituted ``the producer'' for ``he''.
    Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 102-237, Sec. 1006(b)(3)(G), substituted 
``the Administrator'' for ``him'' after ``inform'' and ``the producer'' 
for ``he''.
    1978--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-396, Sec. 13(1), made requirement of 
registration applicable to production of active ingredient used in 
producing a pesticide subject to this subchapter.
    Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 95-396, Sec. 13(2), required information 
pertaining to types and amounts of active ingredients used in producing 
pesticides where applicable.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95-396, Sec. 13(3), considered names of 
pesticides or active ingredients used in producing pesticides produced, 
sold, or distributed at an establishment as not being confidential 
information.


                             Effective Date

    For effective date of section, see section 4 of Pub. L. 92-516, set 
out as a note under section 136 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 136, 136a, 136j, 136o, 136w 
of this title.
