Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 - Amended in 1990

Amended in 1990

The Act was amended by the 1990 Farm Bill on November 28, 1990. The amendment requires that each federal land-managing agency, including the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Forest Service, do the following:

• Designate an office or person adequately trained in managing undesirable plant species to develop and coordinate a program to control such plants on the agency's land;
• Establish and adequately fund this plant management program through the agency's budget process;
• Complete and implement cooperative agreements (requirements for which are provided) with the States regarding undesirable plants on agency land; and
• Establish integrated management systems (as defined in the Act) to control or contain undesirable plants targeted under the cooperative agreements.