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(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. Pests in aquatic environments.
2. Pesticides that may be used to control relevant aquatic pests, and factors that may affect the need for and appropriate use of those pesticides.
3. Potential health and environmental effects of pesticide applications, including potential downstream effects, secondary effects, and effects on nontarget organisms.
4. Proper procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of pesticides, to prevent or minimize pesticide-related hazards. This includes limited area application principles.
5. Applicable regulations including s. ATCP 29.62 and ch. 281, Stats., and ch. NR 107.
6. Public and community relations issues related to aquatic pesticide applications.
(9)Antifouling paint applications.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals who use or direct the use of anti-fouling paint pesticides to preserve and protect boat hulls, buoys, and other materials against damage from marine plants and animals such as barnacles, algae, and tube worms.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. The pests against which antifouling paints are commonly used.
2. Antifouling paints, and factors that may affect the need for and appropriate use of antifouling paints.
3. Potential health and environmental hazards related to antifouling paints.
4. Proper procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of antifouling paints, to prevent or minimize hazards related to those paints.
(10)Right-of-way and natural area pest control.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals who use or direct the use of pesticides to maintain lands used for electric power lines, pipelines, railways, public roads, or similar purposes, or to restore or maintain the ecological integrity of natural areas.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. The variety of environments that may be affected by right-of-way and natural area pesticide applications.
2. Recognition of common pests controlled by right-of-way and natural area pesticide applications.
2m. Restoration and maintenance of natural areas.
3. Pesticides that may be used to control relevant pests, and factors that may affect the need for and appropriate use of those pesticides.
4. Potential health and environmental hazards, including hazards related to surface water and groundwater.
5. Hazards to treated plants and nontarget organisms, including phytotoxicity.
6. Appropriate procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of pesticides, to prevent or minimize pesticide-related hazards.
7. Notice, posting, and restricted entry interval requirements.
8. Pesticide overspray and drift, and how to avoid them.
9. Public and community relations issues related to pesticide applications.
(11)Industrial, institutional, structural, and health- related pest control; general.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals, other than those included in categories subs. (12) to (15), who use or direct the use of pesticides for any of the following purposes:
1. To protect stored, processed, or manufactured products.
2. To control pests in or around food handling establishments, human dwellings, schools, institutions, industrial establishments, warehouses, grain elevators, or like facilities. It includes individuals making perimeter barrier applications. It also includes individuals making spot or directed applications to landscapes to control structural, household, or nuisance pests such as ants, fleas, wasps, bees, and hornets. It does not include individuals making applications under sub. (5) to control pests of turf or ornamentals; nor does it include individuals making applications under sub. (8) to control mosquitoes.
Note: Landscape applications other than perimeter barrier applications must comply with s. ATCP 29.56.
3. To control, as part of a public health program, pests other than mosquitoes that have public health or medical importance.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. Pests that have public health or medical importance.
2. Pesticides that may be used to control relevant pests, and factors that may affect the need for and appropriate use of those pesticides.
3. Potential health and environmental hazards related to the use of pesticides in this category.
4. Appropriate procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of pesticides, to prevent or minimize pesticide-related hazards.
(12)Fumigation; spaces and commodities.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals who use or direct the use of fumigant pesticides to control pests in industrial, institutional, or structural settings, or for health-related purposes. It includes individuals who apply fumigants by means of general, spot, tarpaulin, chamber, vehicle, or in-transit fumigation, or who aerate or ventilate fumigated spaces. It does not include individuals who use or direct the use of soil fumigants.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. Pests that are subject to control by fumigation, including pest biology.
2. Fumigants that may be used to control relevant pests.
3. Factors that may determine the need for, or appropriate use of, a fumigant.
4. Potential health and environmental hazards related to fumigants.
5. Appropriate procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of fumigants, to prevent or minimize fumigant-related hazards.
6. Fumigation equipment.
7. Worker safety, notice, posting, and restricted entry interval requirements.
(13)Sewer root control.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals who use or direct the use of metam sodium or other fumigants to control root growth in sewers.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. The use of metam sodium and other fumigants to control root growth in sewers.
2. Factors that may determine the need for, or appropriate use of, a sewer fumigant.
3. Potential health and environmental hazards related to sewer fumigants.
4. Appropriate procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of sewer fumigants, to prevent or minimize fumigant-related hazards.
5. Fumigation equipment.
6. Worker safety, notice, posting, and restricted entry interval requirements.
(14)Termite control.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals who use or direct the use of pesticides to prevent or control termites.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. Termites, including termite biology.
2. Pesticides that may be used to control termites, and factors that may affect the need for, and appropriate use of, those pesticides.
3. Potential health and environmental hazards related to termite control.
4. Key factors affecting the nature and severity of health and environmental hazards related to termite control.
5. Appropriate procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of pesticides, to prevent or minimize pesticide-related hazards.
(15)Wood preservation.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals, other than those identified under sub. (9), who use or direct the use of pesticides for wood treatment to preserve and protect wood or wood-based materials against damage from insects, fungi, surface molds and mildew, marine crustaceans, shipworms, and other pests.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. Wood species and wood structure.
2. Wood destroying pests and their biology.
3. Wood preservatives that may be used to prevent or control damage caused by wood destroying pests.
4. Factors that may affect the need for, and appropriate use of, wood preservatives.
5. Potential health and environmental hazards related to the use of wood preservatives.
6. Appropriate procedures for mixing, loading, applying, and disposing of wood preservatives, to prevent or minimize related hazards.
(16)Companion animal pest control.
(a) Category description. This category includes individuals who use or direct the use of pesticides to do either of the following:
1. Control pests on companion animals, such as dogs or cats.
2. Control pests in places, other than human habitations, where companion animals are confined.
(b) Certification requirements. To be certified in this category, an individual shall demonstrate practical knowledge and competency related to all of the following:
1. Common companion animals and household pets, and the pests that affect them.
2. Pesticides that may be used to control relevant pests, and factors that may affect the need for, and appropriate use, of those pesticides.
3. Potential toxic or adverse health effects on animals or humans.
4. Appropriate procedures for preparing, applying, and disposing of pesticides, to prevent or minimize pesticide-related hazards.
History: Cr. Register, May, 1998, No. 509, eff. 6-1-98; CR 12-003: am. (10) (title), (a), (b) 1., 2., cr. (10) (b) 2m., am. (11) (a) 2. Register May 2013 No. 689, eff. 6-1-13.
ATCP 29.32Trainee registration.
(1)General. An employer licensed under s. ATCP 29.20 may register an employee as a trainee if that employer is training that employee for licensing under s. ATCP 29.25 and certification under s. ATCP 29.26 or 29.28. A registered trainee may, without being licensed or certified, temporarily engage in activities for which a license and certification are normally required if those activities are reasonably necessary for the training. A trainee registration takes effect when properly filed with the department, and expires 30 days after it is filed.
(2)Restrictions on trainee use of pesticides. A trainee registration under sub. (1) does not authorize the trainee to do any of the following:
(a) Use any pesticide except under the direct on-site supervision of an individual who is licensed under s. ATCP 29.25 and certified under s. ATCP 29.26 or 29.28 to perform the functions for which the trainee is being trained.
(b) Direct the use of pesticides.
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