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11-2001 Restricted-Use Pesticide Recordkeeping Rules for Certified rP ivate Applicators Joyce Hornstein Iowa State University

Richard O. Pope Iowa State University, [email protected]

Julie Todd Iowa State University

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Recommended Citation Hornstein, Joyce; Pope, Richard O.; and Todd, Julie, "Restricted-Use Pesticide Recordkeeping Rules for Certified Private Applicators" (2001). Agriculture and Environment Extension Publications. 185. http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/extension_ag_pubs/185

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The Federal Pesticide Recordkeeping • The crop, commodity, stored • county, range, township, and Program was authorized by the Food, product, or site to which the section; Agriculture, Conservation, and pesticide was applied. Trade Act of 1990, commonly • an identification system using referred to as the 1990 Farm Bill.1 • The month, day, and year on maps and/or written descriptions These rules apply to both certified which the restricted-use pesticide that accurately identify the location; private and commercial applicators. application occurred. The Iowa Pesticide Act already • an identification system requires commercial applicators to • The name and certification number established by a USDA agency, such keep records of all pesticide of the certified applicator who as the Farm Service Agency (FSA) or applications for 3 years. The new applied the restricted-use pesticide. the Natural Resources Conservation rules for private pesticide applicators Service (NRCS), that uses maps and require records for all restricted use The following frequently asked a numbering system to identify field be kept for 2 years. questions and their answers may locations; or help you understand the The federal regulations require recordkeeping regulations. • the legal property description. private pesticide applicators to record the following information What do I include in the total What can I record as the within 14 days2 of the restricted-use amount of the restricted-use size of area treated? pesticide application: pesticide applied? Match the terms used in the Record the total quantity of pesticide directions for use section of the • The brand or product name and product used, listing each restricted- product label. For example, use the Environmental Protection use pesticide separately. Do not acres for field crops, linear feet for Agency (EPA) registration number record the percentage of active fencerows and rights of way, square of the restricted-use pesticide that ingredient or the amount of water feet for greenhouses and nurseries, was applied. Note: The registration used as a carrying agent. or whatever designation was used on number is not the same as the EPA the label of the product you used. Establishment Number, which is also How should I record the location For livestock and poultry records, on the label. of the pesticide application? enter the number of animals treated. Record the actual location where the • The total amount of the restricted- application of restricted-use pesticide use pesticide applied. was made. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1 • The location of the application. allows several options for recording Officially known as section 1491 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and the field “location,” including the Trade (FACT) Act of 1990. • The size of the area treated. following: 2However, whether or not the written record has been completed, the certified applicator shall provide the record information for medical treatment or first aid.

PAT 11 Revised September 2000 1 How do I record spot How long must I keep restricted- pesticide. By law, the commercial applications? use pesticide records? applicator must provide these If you apply restricted-use pesticides Records of restricted-use pesticide records to the client within 30 days 1 in a total area of less than /10 of an applications by private applicators of the restricted-use pesticide acre on the same day, you must must be retained for 2 years from application. Commercial pesticide record the brand or product name, the date of application. The Iowa applicators can choose to provide EPA registration number, total Pesticide Act requires commercial either a copy of the application amount applied, the location of applicators to keep restricted-use records required for the Iowa treatment designated as spot pesticide records for 3 years. Pesticide Act or the records required application, description of the area under the 1990 Farm Bill. treated, and the month, day, and Does the regulation for private year of the application. Your record applicators apply to all pesticide Is a federal form required to also must include a concise applications? maintain the record(s)? description of location of treatment. No. The regulations only require No. Applicators may fit the record- For example, if you applied a recordkeeping for applications of keeping requirements into their herbicide for noxious weed control, federally restricted-use pesticides. current recordkeeping scheme. An you could record the location of example of a form that may be used treatment as a spot application, What is the difference between a for recordkeeping is an insert to this followed by an explanation such as certified commercial applicator publication. Request PAT 11A or “treated Canada thistle throughout and a certified private applicator? visit the ISU Extension website at field number 8.” This provision Certified private pesticide www.extension.iastate.edu to print excludes greenhouse and nursery applicators are persons, or their out copies. applicators, who are required to employees, who are certified by the keep their records as described on state to apply restricted-use Which federal and/or state page 1. pesticides in the production of an agencies can request my agricultural commodity on property restricted-use pesticide records? What is meant by crop, owned or rented by the applicator or Under the Federal Insecticide, commodity, stored product, or the applicator’s employer. In Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act site to which a restricted-use addition, individuals who apply a (FIFRA) and the Iowa Pesticide Act, pesticide was applied? restricted-use pesticide without the Iowa Department of Agriculture This includes general references compensation, other than trading and Land Stewardship has access to such as corn, soybean, or alfalfa, not personal services between producers all commercial pesticide applicator specific scientific or variety names. of agricultural commodities, on the records for 3 years after the date of Commodity also includes stored property of another person are application. Under the 1990 Farm products such as grain, apples, or considered private pesticide Bill, private pesticide applicators are other agricultural products to which applicators. Certified commercial required to provide access to their a restricted-use pesticide may be pesticide applicators are certified to restricted-use pesticide records to applied, whereas site includes apply general or restricted-use authorized representatives of the fencerow, livestock, and poultry. pesticides on the property of another USDA and the Iowa Department of person for compensation. Agriculture and Land Stewardship. When do I have to record the restricted-use pesticide How does the law affect certified Who else has access to my application information? commercial applicators? restricted-use pesticide records? You must record the required Commercial pesticide applicators are Licensed health care professionals, information within 14 days follow- required to provide a copy of the or those acting under their direction, ing the pesticide application. required records to individuals who may access your records when hire them to apply a restricted-use treating individuals who may have

2 been exposed to restricted-use information, maintained in a data Are there any penalties for pesticides. A licensed health care base on agricultural pesticide violation of the federal pesticide professional is defined as a use, provides annual reports to recordkeeping requirements? physician, nurse, emergency medical Congress, which can be valuable Yes. A certified pesticide applicator technician, or other qualified in policy discussions involving who violates any provision of the act individual, licensed or certified pesticide use. will be subject to a fine of not more by the state to provide medical than $550 for the first violation. For treatment. Who is responsible for surveying subsequent violations, the penalties the nonagricultural uses of will be not less than $1,100 for each Will the records be surveyed? restricted-use pesticides? violation, unless the administrator of USDA’s National Agricultural EPA surveys commercial pesticide the USDA Agricultural Marketing Statistics Service (NASS) conducts applicators who apply restricted-use Service, or his or her designee, surveys on pesticide use for agri- pesticides to nonagricultural sites determines that the certified cultural production. The survey such as turf and roadsides. applicator made a good faith effort to comply.

Recordkeeping Pocket Guide Available

Iowa State University Extension has numbers for commonly used such as fertilizer use, manure developed a recordkeeping pocket restricted-use pesticides. The applications, and variety planted. guide to help farmers comply with pesticide applicator’s name and Not all of this general information is the restricted-use pesticide rules. certification number, and the total required under law, but producers The pocket guide is an effective tool amount of pesticide applied per field should find the records useful. for farmers to use to be in should be recorded in the tables Pocket guides are available compliance. It includes space for provided in the pocket guide. at county extension offices. Ask for each of the items to be recorded on a ICM 1, Field Records for Integrated field-by-field basis and contains a In addition, the pocket guide has Crop Management, Restricted-Use directory of EPA registration space to enter general field records, Pesticide Applications and Manure Applications.

Prepared by Joyce Hornstein and Rich Pope, extension program specialists, and edited by Julie Todd, extension program specialist, Department of Entomology.

This project has been funded by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship through a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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