diff --git a/test/testUtils/imageUtils.py b/test/testUtils/imageUtils.py
index c93cf38fb0..235b67b841 100644
--- a/test/testUtils/imageUtils.py
+++ b/test/testUtils/imageUtils.py
@@ -180,20 +180,6 @@ def imageDiff(imagePath1, imagePath2, verbose, fail, failpercent, hardfail,
         sys.__stdout__.write("\nimage diffing with {0}".format(cmd))
         sys.__stdout__.flush()
 
-    # LD_LIBRARY_PATH(or PATH or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH) needs to be set for the idiff executable because its 
-    # RPATH is absolute rather than relative to ORIGIN, meaning the RPATH 
-    # points to the absolute path on the machine where idiff was built.
-    # This absence of relative paths for RPATH comes from OpenImageIO.
-    # We introduce a second workaround to avoid Maya using usd's libpng, 
-    # because both use incompatible versions of libpng. This is done by 
-    # setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to IDIFF_LD_LIBRARY_PATH only when we run 
-    # idiff using Python's subprocess module.
-
-    if sys.platform == "darwin":
-        os.environ["DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = os.environ['IDIFF_LD_LIBRARY_PATH']
-    elif sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
-        os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = os.environ['IDIFF_LD_LIBRARY_PATH']
-    
     # Run idiff command
     proc = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=False, env=os.environ.copy(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
     return proc