Report Title:
Pesticides; Public Notification of Use
Description:
Allows the DOA to develop rules to require notification to the public when areas routinely accessible to the public are treated with highly or moderately toxic pesticides.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
670 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PESTICIDES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 149A-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§149A-33 Rules. The department shall have the authority to carry out and effectuate the purpose of this chapter by rules, including but not limited to the following:
(1) To establish fees, procedures, conditions, and standards to certify persons for the use of restricted use pesticides under section [4] 11 of FIFRA;
(2) To establish limitations and conditions for [the application] methods of pesticides application by aircraft, power rigs, mist blowers, [and] other equipment[;], and pesticides application technologies;
(3) To establish, as necessary, specific standards and guidelines which specify those conditions which constitute unreasonable adverse effects on the environment;
(4) To establish, as necessary, record keeping requirements for pesticide use by applicators; [and]
(5) To establish, as necessary, procedures for the issuance of guidelines to specify those conditions that constitute use of a pesticide in a manner inconsistent with its label[.]; and
(6) To establish requirements for applicators to notify the public when areas routinely accessible to the public are treated with pesticides that are highly or moderately toxic."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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INTRODUCED BY: |
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BY REQUEST |