The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a notification informing pesticide registrants of a decrease in the annual pesticide registration maintenance fee. To meet statutory requirements, the fee for each pesticide product registered during fiscal year 2023 will be $3,400, down from $3,660 in fiscal year 2022.
The Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2018 (PRIA 4) directs EPA to collect, to the extent practicable, an average amount of $31 million in pesticide registration maintenance fees annually for fiscal years 2019-2023, or a total of $155 million. EPA has collected $124.2 million to date.
As seen in the table below EPA only has $30.8 million remaining to collect. The Agency collected more than the target amount from fiscal years 2020-2022 due to an unexpected influx of new product applications in response to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). To avoid overcollection, EPA is thus required to reduce the fee amount for fiscal year 2023.
Pesticide Maintenance Fee Collection from Fiscal Years 2019-2023
Fiscal YearActual Amount CollectedTarget AmountFee Per Product
| 2019 | $27,797,000 (under collected) | $31,000,000 | $3,392 |
| 2020 | $31,899,000 (over collected) | $31,800,000 | $4,000 |
| 2021 | $32,842,000 (over collected) | $31,800,000 | $4,000 |
| 2022 | $31,628,000 (over collected) | $31,200,000 | $3,660 |
| 2023 | To be determined | $30,800,000 | $3,400 |
For more information and to access instructions, the maintenance fee filing form, fee tables and product listings grouped by company numbers, please visit the Annual Pesticide Registration Maintenance Fees webpage.
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