Louisiana: Toxic substances

June 2009
Volume
39
Issue
16
The Department of Agriculture and Forestry adopted amendments to La. Admin. Code tit. 7, §§103, 121, 125, 129, 143, 173, 181, and 205, relating to pesticides. The amendments add definitions and make other technical changes; provide for failure to pass an examination and cheating on examinations; change the name of the right-of-way pest control category for commercial applicators; provide a numbering system for subcategories that agricultural consultants may become certified for; repeal a restriction on application of pesticides; repeal the requirement for publication in the Louisiana Register of an annual list of pesticides that, upon disposal, are declared by U.S. EPA to be hazardous waste; and change the water monitoring frequency from monthly to quarterly and the fish tissue sampling from annually to on an as-needed basis. http://www.doa.la.gov/osr/reg/0905/0905.pdf p. 870.