[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 23]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR170.103]



[Page 209-210]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 170_WORKER PROTECTION STANDARD--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart B_Standard for Workers

 

Sec.  170.103  Exceptions.



    Exceptions. This subpart does not apply when any pesticide is 

applied on an agricultural establishment in the following circumstances:

    (a) For mosquito abatement, Mediterranean fruit fly eradication, or 

similar wide-area public pest control programs sponsored by governmental 

entities;

    (b) On livestock or other animals, or in or about animal premises;

    (c) On plants grown for other than commercial or research purposes, 

which may include plants in habitations, home fruit and vegetable 

gardens, and home greenhouses;

    (d) On plants that are in ornamental gardens, parks, and public or 

private lawns and grounds that are intended only for aesthetic purposes 

or climatic modification;

    (e) By injection directly into agricultural plants. Direct injection 

does not include ``hack and squirt,'' ``frill and spray,'' chemigation, 

soil-incorporation, or soil-injection;

    (f) In a manner not directly related to the production of 

agricultural plants, including, but not limited to, structural pest 

control, control of vegetation along rights-of-way and in other noncrop 

areas, and pasture and rangeland use;

    (g) For control of vertebrate pests;

    (h) As attractants or repellents in traps;



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    (i) On the harvested portions of agricultural plants or on harvested 

timber; and

    (j) For research uses of unregistered pesticides.



[57 FR 38151, Aug. 21, 1992. Redesignated at 60 FR 21952, May 3, 1995]