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Louisiana has the following Pesticide Applicator Categories:

All certifications granted by Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry

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Bobby Simoneaux, Director
225-925-3763
Bobby_S@ldaf.state.la.us

Directory of Pesticide Control Officials

1. Agricultural Pest Control (Category 1). This Category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use pesticides on agricultural lands, grasslands and non-crop agricultural lands.
   1. This Category also includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use pesticides on animals and to places on or in which animals are confined.
   2. This Category includes Doctors of Veterinary Medicine engaged in the business of applying pesticides for hire, publicly holding themselves out as pesticide applicators, or engaged in large scale use of pesticides.
2. Forest Pest Control (Category 2). This Category has been subdivided into the following three Subcategories:
   1. General Forestry (Subcategory 2a). This Subcategory includes commercial applicators using or supervising pesticides with restricted use to control pests in the regeneration, management, and production of forest stands.
   2. Forest Tree Seed Orchards and Nurseries (Subcategory 2b). This Subcategory includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use pesticides to control pests and undesirable plants in the production of forest tree seed, seedlings, and cuttings.
   3. Wood Processing (Subcategory 2c). This Subcategory includes wood or fiber processing firms such as sawmills, veneer plants, plywood plants, wood preservation plants and pulping facilities which use restricted use pesticides in the manufacturing process of wood products.
3. Ornamental and Turf Pest Control (Category 3). This Category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use pesticides to control pests in the maintenance and production of ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers, and turf.
4. Seed Treatment (Category 4). This Category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use pesticides on seeds.
5. Aquatic Pest Control (Category 5). This category is subdivided into two subcategories:
   1. Subcategory 5a includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of any restricted use pesticide purposefully applied to standing or running water, excluding applicators engaged in public health related activities included in Category 8 (§125.B.2.h);
   2. Subcategory 5b includes commercial applicators using, or supervising the use of, any restricted use pesticide containing Tributyltin (TBT) in paints to be applied to vessel hulls and other marine structures to inhibit the growth of aquatic organis ms such as barnacles and algae.
6. Right-of-way Pest Control (Category 6). This Category includes commercial applicators using or supervising the use of restricted use pesticides in the maintenance of public roads, electric power lines, pipelines, railway rights-of-way or other similar areas.
7. Industrial, Institutional, Structural, and Health Related Pest Control (Category 7). This category includes commercial applicators and nonfee commercial applicators using, or supervising the use of, pesticides with restricted uses in, on, or around food-handling establishments; human dwellings; institutions, such as schools and hospitals; industrial establishments, including warehouses and grain elevators; and any other structures and adjacent area, public or private; and for the protection of stored, processed or manufactured products. This category has been subdivided into four subcategories:
   1. Subcategory 7a is for pest control operators who are, or will be, certified and licensed by the Structural Pest Control Commission. The commissioner hereby delegates to the Structural Pest Control Commission the authority to examine and certify all persons in this subcategory. The commissioner hereby delegates to the Structural Pest Control Commission the authority to enforce all federal and state laws and regulations as they apply to persons certified under this subcategory.
   2. Subcategory 7b is for applicators who apply or supervise the application of restricted use pesticides on a nonfee basis in, on or around institutions, motels, hotels, hospitals and like places as the owner or in the employ of the owner and for persons applying or supervising the application of any herbicide, rodenticide, or insecticide for grass and weed control and rodent and general pest control in, on, or around structures or grounds of government subsidized and administered housing and multiplex housing.
   3. Subcategory 7c is for applicators who apply, or supervise the application of, restricted use pesticides on a nonfee basis in, on, or around commercial grain elevators and other grain handling establishments, feed mills, flour mills, food processing plants, and other places where processed or unprocessed foods are stored, as the owner or in the employ of the owner. This subcategory is divided into three separate areas of certification:
      1. (7c1) general pest control;
      2. (7c2) vertebrate control;
      3. (7c3) stored grain pest control.
   4. Subcategory 7d is for applicators who apply or supervise the application of pesticides on a nonfee basis for grass and weed control and rodent and general pest control (roaches, wasps, and ants) or restricted use pesticides, in, on, or around structures and grounds of schools that provide education for classes kindergarten through 12. Pesticide applications for wood destroying insects shall be applied by licensed structural pest control operators. Each 7d certified applicator shall annually train all persons applying pesticides under his \her supervision in the proper handling, storage, use, application and disposal of pesticides.
8. Public Health Pest Control (Category 8). This category is for commercial applicators and state, federal and other government employees using or supervising the use of pesticides in public health programs for the management and control of pests having medical and public health importance. This category has been subdivided into six subcategories, as follows.
   1. Mosquito Control: Applicator (Subcategory 8a). This subcategory is for commercial applicators and government employees who are applicators in mosquito control programs.
   2. Rodent Control (Subcategory 8b). This subcategory is for commercial applicators and government employees who are applicators in rodent control programs.
   3. Community Public Health (Subcategory 8c). This subcategory is for commercial applicators and government employees who are applicators concerned with the control of all arthropods and rodents of public health importance.
   4. Mosquito Control: Program Supervisor (Subcategory 8d). This subcategory is for commercial applicators and government employees who are program supervisors in organized mosquito control programs.
   5. Antimicrobial Pest Control (Subcategory 8e). This subcategory is for commercial applicators engaged in antimicrobial pest control using restricted use pesticides.
   6. Sewer Root Control (Subcategory 8f). This subcategory is for commercial applicators and government employees who are applicators engaged in root control in sewers using restricted use pesticides.
9. Regulatory Pest Control (Category 9). This category includes state, federal or other governmental employees using or supervising the use of pesticides with restricted uses in the control of regulated pests.
10. Demonstration and Research Pest Control (Category 10). This category includes individuals who demonstrate to the public the proper use and techniques of application of pesticides with restricted uses, or supervise such demonstrations and persons conducting field research with pesticides, and in doing so, use or supervise the use of pesticides with restricted uses. This category has been subdivided into eight subcategories:
    1. agricultural pest control;
    2. forest pest control;
    3. ornamental and turf pest control;
    4. seed treatment;
    5. aquatic pest control;
    6. right-of-way pest control;
    7. industrial, institutional, structural and health related pest control;
    viii. public health pest control.