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Colorado has the following Pesticide Applicator Categories:

DoD Category	Colorado State Equivalent and Number
2 Forest	Forest Pest Control (106)
3 Ornamental and Turf	Turf Pest Control (206), Ornamental Pest Control (207)
3a Soil Fumigation	Agricultural Insect Control (101)
5 Aquatic Plant and Animal	Aquatic Pest Control (108)
6 Right-of-Way	Industrial and Right-of-Way Weed Control (109)
6a Grassland and Non-Crop Agricultural Land	Rangeland Pest Control (107)
7 Industrial, Institutional, Structural and Health-Related	Wood Destroying Organism Pest Control (301), Outdoor Vertebrate Pest Control (302), Residential/Commercial Pest Control (304)
7a Stored Product Fumigation	Fumigation (303)
8 Public Health	Public Health Pest Control (110)
10 Demonstration and Research	Research and Demonstration (111)
11 Aerial	Endorsement by Colorado Department of Agriculture

Certifications granted by Colorado Department of Agriculture

Contractor's license is required.
Subcontractor's company license is required.

Mitch Yergert, Division Director
303-239-4140
mitch.yergert@ag.state.co.us

Directory of Pesticide Control Officials

Part 8. Agricultural Applicators.
8.01. The agricultural classification includes the following categories:

1. Agricultural Insect Control: the application of pesticides to agricultural plants, including applications performed on pastures, croplands and non-crop agricultural lands, to control invertebrate pests, including insects, mites, slugs, snails, and nematodes.
2. Agricultural Plant Disease Control: the application of pesticides to agricultural plants, including applications performed on pastures, croplands and non-crop agricultural lands, to control plant diseases.
3. Agricultural Weed Control: the application of pesticides to agricultural lands, including pastures, croplands and non-crop agricultural lands, to control weeds.
4. Seed Treatment: the application of pesticides to seeds.
5. Livestock Pest Control: the application of pesticides to livestock.
6. Forest Pest Control: the application of pesticides in forests, forest nurseries, forest seed producing areas, windbreaks and downed timber. For applications in forested areas that come within maintained areas surrounding residential or commercial structures or within fifty (50) feet of a residential or commercial structure, an applicator must also hold the ornamental pest control category in accordance with Part 9 of these rules and comply with all of the posting and notification requirements in section 35-10-112, C.R.S., of the Pesticide Applicators' Act. This additional certification in the ornamental pest control category shall not apply to aerial applicators or ground applications made by federal, state, or local governments on property they own.
7. Rangeland Pest Control: the application of pesticides to rangeland. For applications performed in rangeland areas that come within maintained areas surrounding residential or commercial structures or within fifty (50) feet of a residential or commercial structure, an applicator must also hold the turf pest control category in accordance with Part 9 of these rules and comply with all of the posting and notification requirements in section 35-10-112, C.R.S., of the Pesticide Applicators' Act. This additional certification in the ornamental pest control category shall not apply to aerial applicators or ground applications made by federal, state, or local governments on property they own.
8. Aquatic Pest Control: the application of pesticides to standing or running water, except for pesticide applications which are included in the "Public Health" category, at rule 8.0l(j).
1. Metam sodium for root control in sewers: the application of metam sodium in sewers to control roots. For purposes of this sub-category, "sewer" shall mean any artificial conduit for the trans mission of wastewater to a wastewater treatment plant.
9. Industrial and Right-of-Way Weed Control: the application of pesticides to maintain public and private roads, electrical powerlines, railway rights-of-way, construction and maintenance of parking lots, drilling rigs, substations, or similar areas.
10. Public Health Pest Control: the application of pesticides for control of disease vectors, except vertebrates.
11. Research and Demonstration: the application of pesticides in the course of conducting field research or demonstration. No license or certification will be issued in this category unless the applicant also obtains licensing or certification in the specific category listed in these rules which is appropriate to the research activity.

Part 9. Ornamental Applicators.
9.01. The ornamental classification includes the following categories:

1. Turf Pest Control: the application of pesticides to: (1) turf to control invertebrate pests, including insects, mites, slugs, snails, and nematodes, or to control plant diseases or weeds; or (2) ornamental beds to control weeds.
2. Ornamental Pest Control: the application of pesticides to ornamental trees, shrubs, beds, flowers and other ornamental plants, except turf or indoor ornamental plants, to control invertebrate pests, including insects, mites, slugs, snails and nematodes, or to control plant diseases.

Part 10. Structural Applicators.
10.01. The structural pest control classification includes the following categories:

1. Wood Destroying Organism Pest Control: the application of pesticides to control termites, carpenter ants, powder post beetles, fungi, and/or other wood destroying organisms in structures and/or adjacent outside areas.
2. Outdoor Vertebrate Pest Control: the application of pesticides, bait stations or devices intend ed for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any amphibian, reptile, bird, fish, feral dogs and cats, moles, voles, bats, wild carnivores, rabbits, skunks, and any other vertebrate pest, except rats and mice.
3. Fumigation: the application of a fumigant to one or more rooms in a structure or to the entire structure at a desired concentration and for a length of time necessary for the control of rodents and/or insect pests, including the application of a fumigant to a localized space or harborage within a structure for local insect and/or rodent control.
4. Residential/Commercial Pest Control: the application of pesticides, bait stations, or devices intended for use for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating structural pests, including without limitation insects and rodents. However, this category does not include the application of fumigants or actions taken to control wood destroying organisms, outdoor vertebrates, or grain storage pests.
5. Stored Commodities Treatment: the application of pesticides for the treatment of pests in raw grain stored in facilities which are not used for animal or human habitation; the application of plant growth regulators to agricultural commodities stored in facilities which are not used for animal or human habitation; and the application of pesticides to commodity processing equipment or commodity storage facilities (not including offices or other structures).
6. Wood Preservation and Wood Products Treatment: the application of pesticides to prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate pests in wood or wood products which are, or are capable of being, incorporated into a structure, not including downed timber prior to bark removal or sawing.
7. Interior Plant Pest Control: the application of pesticides to house plants and other indoor ornamental plants kept or located within structures occupied by humans, including, but not limited to houses, apartments, offices, shopping malls, other places of business and other dwelling places, to control invertebrate pests that adversely affect such plants, including insects, mites, slugs, snails and nematodes; and to control plant diseases.