DER means the Department of Environmental Regulation. Desiccant means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissues. Device means any instrument other than a firearm which is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest or any form of plant or animal life other than man, bacteria, virus, or other microorganism on or in living man or other living animals, but not including equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately from the pesticide. Distribute means to offer for sale, hold for sale, sell, barter or supply pesticides in this state. Emergency exemption means an exemption as authorized in section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
Environment means all water, air, land, plants and animals, and their relationship with one another.
EPA means the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Equipment means any type of ground, water or aerial equipment using motorized, mechanical or pressurized power to apply any pesticide on land and on anything which may be growing, habituating or stored on or in such land, but shall not include any pressurized hand-sized household apparatus used for pesticides, or any equipment of which the person who is applying the pesticide is the energy source. Experimental-use permit means a permit issued by DACS or by the EPA as authorized in section 5 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. Fungicide means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating fungi. Herbicide means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating weeds.