TITLE 22

AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE

CHAPTER 34

PESTICIDES AND CHEMIGATION

22-3421.  Adoption and scope of rules. (1) The director is authorized to adopt appropriate rules for carrying out the purpose and provisions of this act including, but not limited to, rules providing for:

(a)  The collection and examination of samples of pesticides or devices; and

(b)  the safe handling, transportation, storage, display, distribution and disposal of pesticides and their containers; and

(c)  procedures in making pesticide recommendations; and

(d)  procedures for obtaining permits; and

(e)  regulating the labeling of devices; and

(f)  procedures to take possession and dispose of canceled, suspended, or otherwise unusable pesticides held by persons. For the purpose of this section, the department may become a hazardous waste generator, and may set fees to partially offset an agricultural chemical waste disposal program’s cost; and

(g)  antipollution devices, chemigation equipment requirements, performance standards and installation requirements; and

(h)  listing of the sites where chemigation will be conducted by the applicator.

(2)  Such rules shall be promulgated in accordance with chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code.

History:

[22-3421, added 1976, ch. 190, sec. 2, p. 704; am. 1992, ch. 43, sec. 2, p. 145; am. 1996, ch. 22, sec. 14, p. 56; am. 1999, ch. 69, sec. 14, p. 190.]