To transfer Federal financial assistance currently used to develop herbicide resistant plants to non-chemical weed control systems, and for other purposes.
Herbicide Reduction Act of 1991 - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture, with specified exceptions, from obligating funds for applied research to develop herbicide resistant plants.
Directs the Secretary to reallocate existing funds for such purpose to alternative weed control systems.
Directs: (1) the Secretary to survey land grant colleges to determine the extent to which the private sector is supporting such research; and (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to review herbicide resistant plant research.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture.
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