The department may cooperate, receive grants-in-aid and enter into cooperative agreements with any agency of the federal government, of this state or its subdivisions, or with any agency of another state, in order to:

A. secure uniformity of regulations;

B. enter into cooperative agreements with the United States environmental protection agency to register pesticides under the authority of the Pesticide Control Act and the federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act;

C. cooperate in the enforcement of the federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act and regulations through the use of state or federal personnel and facilities or both and to implement cooperative enforcement programs including but not limited to the registration of pesticides, collection and analysis of pesticides and devices, inspection of storage facilities and certification of applicators;

D. enter into contracts with other agencies including federal agencies for the purpose of training pesticide dealers, pesticide management consultants, pesticide applicators or operators;

E. publish information and conduct short courses on the storage, transportation, distribution, application, use, registration and disposal of pesticides and devices and environmental implications thereof;

F. enter into contracts for either monitoring pesticides, or analyzing land, including agricultural products that will be consumed by any living organism other than plants, for pesticide residues, or both;

G. prepare and submit a state plan to meet federal certification standards including issuing experimental use permits; and

H. regulate pesticide applicators and operators.

History: 1953 Comp., § 45-25-38, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 366, § 38.

Cross references. — For the federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act, see 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 3 Am. Jur. 2d Agriculture §§ 22 to 37, 43.

3 C.J.S. Agriculture §§ 25 to 56.