PESTT Act

Pest Elimination Services Transparency and Terminology or the PESTT Act - Amends the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988, with respect to nuisance animal control activities and agreements of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), to define "urban rodent control" (excepted from such activities) as efforts to directly control any mammal in the order Rodentia in a location that is not an airport or in a rural area.

Requires the Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress on activities carried out by the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that: (1) identifies activities that can be carried out by private sector entities, (2) prioritizes those vital to the protection of public health and safety and agricultural production and that can be performed by such entities, and (3) recommends ways to avoid duplication by the Wildlife Services program and the private sector.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6470 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6470

 To define urban rodent control for purposes of clarifying the control 
  of nuisance mammals and birds carried out by the Wildlife services 
 program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and by the 
                private sector, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2012

 Mr. Mulvaney (for himself, Mr. Schrader, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Duncan of 
Tennessee, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Southerland, Mr. Guthrie, 
 and Ms. Chu) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To define urban rodent control for purposes of clarifying the control 
  of nuisance mammals and birds carried out by the Wildlife services 
 program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and by the 
                private sector, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pest Elimination Services 
Transparency and Terminology'' or the ``PESTT Act''.

SEC. 2. URBAN RODENT CONTROL DEFINED.

    Title I of the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1988 (Public Law 100-202; 101 Stat. 1329-331) is 
amended in the last proviso under the heading ``animal and plant health 
inspection service--salaries and expenses'' (7 U.S.C. 426c), by 
striking ``Animal Damage Control activities'' at the end and inserting 
``Animal Damage Control activities, and the term `urban rodent control' 
means efforts to directly control any mammal in the order Rodentia in a 
location that is not an airport or in a rural area (as defined in 
section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490))''.

SEC. 3. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF WILDLIFE SERVICES PROGRAM OF THE ANIMAL 
              AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE.

    Not later than October 1, 2013, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry of the Senate a report that--
            (1) identifies activities carried out by the Wildlife 
        Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
        Service that can be carried out by entities with appropriate 
        expertise and capacity in the private sector;
            (2) prioritizes the activities conducted by the Wildlife 
        Services program that--
                    (A) are vital to the protection of public health 
                and safety and agricultural production; and
                    (B) can be performed by the entities referred to in 
                paragraph (1); and
            (3) recommends ways, including any necessary changes to 
        Federal statutes, to avoid duplicative work being conducted by 
        the Wildlife Services program and the private sector.
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