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Board News—Meetings and Related Issues
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- Attention Applicators
- Effective 1/1/08, Policy Relating to Verifiable Authorization of Ongoing Commercial Pesticide Application Services. (Important Note: This policy does not apply to agricultural commercial applications [all commodities, including forest products]).
- Restrictions on pesticide applications to control browntail moths will be effective for the 2008 season. See Section 5 of Chapter 29—Standards for Water Quality Protection.
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- Board Rulemaking Update
- At it's January 25, 2008 meeting, the Board voted unanimously to adopt amendments to Chapters 26, 29, and 41.
- Chapter 26 was amended to exempt crack and crevice treatments from the notification requirements and modify the posting provisions.
- Chapter 29 was amended to establish restrictions on pesticide applications to control browntail moths near marine waters and require an untreated 25-foot buffer zone for outdoor terrestrial broadcast pesticide applications near waters of the state.
- Buffer Variance Permit (Chapter 29, Section 6) [PDF or RTF]
- Chapter 41 was amended to include regulations that control the distribution and use of genetically modified plants that produce pesticides (specifically Bt corn).
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- In the News
- (Board Member) John Jemison: Creating Community Around Food (Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener, Winter 2007/2008
- Aerial pesticide spraying regulation top priority for Maine in 2008 (Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News, January 14, 2008) [PDF]
- Looking at the Maine BPC (The Republican Journal, January 14, 2008)
- Pest control businesses becoming chem-free (Portland Press Herald, October 3, 2007) [PDF]
- Of rain and runoff: Home gardeners may want to embrace new practices (Maine Sunday Telegram, September 30, 2007 [PDF]
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