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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1201S.P. 490 In Senate, March 20, 2025
An Act to Protect Maine Agriculture and Farms by Exempting
Certain Pesticides from Regulation
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and
ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator STEWART of Aroostook.
Cosponsored by Senator: TIMBERLAKE of Androscoggin, Representatives: COOPER of
Windham, CRAY of Palmyra, GUERRETTE of Caribou, HALL of Wilton, JACKSON of
Oxford. Page 1 - 132LR1545(01)
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2 as enacted by PL 2023, c. 630, ยง1, is
3 amended by amending subparagraph (3) to read:
4 (3) The United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal
5 Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, except that any such products
6 approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to that
7 law for aerial or land application are not exempt from this section;
8 is enacted to read:
9 F-1. A pesticide registered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
10 pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act applied by a person
11 licensed by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of
12 Pesticides Control as an agricultural basic applicator, a private applicator or a
13 commercial applicator;
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15 This bill amends the law providing for exemption of certain veterinary products from
16 the law governing products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or
17 PFAS, to allow products approved for use for aerial or land application that are regulated
18 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide,
19 Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. It creates an exemption for a pesticide registered by the
20 United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide,
21 Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act applied by a person licensed by the Department of
22 Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control as an agricultural
23 basic applicator, a private applicator or a commercial applicator.
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