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Water, wastewater community scrambling to make sense of USEPA action declaring chlorine gas a restricted‐use pesticide
Author(s) -
Scharfenaker Mark A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2000.tb09061.x
Subject(s) - pesticide , safe drinking water act , listing (finance) , waste management , hazardous waste , environmental science , disinfectant , environmental protection , business , engineering , chemistry , water quality , ecology , organic chemistry , finance , agronomy , biology
This column discusses the latest in a series of US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) notices declaring chlorine gas to be a restricted‐use pesticide (RUP) that will require treatment plants using it as a disinfectant to have at least one trained and certified “pesticide applicator” present during all operations. A listing of internet resources on the subject is given, along with an explanation of the essentials of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.