Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 22a - Environmental Protection
54 - Application of Pesticides from the Air
Section 22a-54-1 - Application of pesticides from the air
Current through March 14, 2024
(a) No permit for the application of broad spectrum chemical pesticides from the air for non-agricultural purposes shall be issued by the commissioner of environmental protection.
Permits for agricultural purposes, such as, but not limited to, those activities set forth in the definitions of "agriculture" and "farming" in section 1-1 of the general statutes, shall be issued by the commissioner of the department of environmental protection only after the applicant has produced evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that the proposed material and its method of application shall not be injurious to the public health, aquatic and animal life, including pollinating insects, or property not owned or leased by the applicant or those on whose behalf the application is made. For purposes of this section, "broad spectrum chemical pesticides" means a pesticide not of biological origin which is non-selective, and has the potential to prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate a variety of organisms.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section or section 22a-66-7 of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies, if the commissioner of environmental protection, in consultation with the commissioner of public health, determines that the application of broad spectrum chemical pesticides from the ground is impractical and that application of broad spectrum chemical pesticides from the air is necessary to control specific vectors of human disease which pose an imminent threat to public health, the commissioner of environmental protection may authorize a state agency or a municipality or their agents to engage in such application by aircraft, subject to the following conditions: