GAO Recognizes USDA and EPA Actions to Protect Bee Health, Calls for More Coordination, Input from Stakeholders
March 11, 2016
Editor’s Note: GAO’s complete report, Bee Health: USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations [GAO-16-220] is available here. Below are brief excerpts.
From: US GAO
USDA and EPA have taken numerous actions to protect the health of honey bees and other species of bees, thereby supporting agriculture and the environment.
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Monitoring honey bees and other bee species is critical to understanding their population status and threats to their health. The task force’s research action plan on bees and other pollinators identified monitoring of wild, native bees as a priority and directed agencies in USDA and the Department of the Interior to take leading and supporting roles.
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Monitoring honey bees and other bee species is critical to understanding their population status and threats to their health. The task force’s research action plan on bees and other pollinators identified monitoring of wild, native bees as a priority and directed agencies in USDA and the Department of the Interior to take leading and supporting roles.
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To provide Congress and the public with accurate information about the schedules for completing the registration reviews for existing pesticides required under FIFRA, we recommend that the Administrator of EPA disclose in its PRIA implementation reports, or through another method of its choosing, which registration reviews have potentially inaccurate schedules and when it expects those reviews to be completed.
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