Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection › ATCP 20-54 - Agricultural Resource Management › Chapter ATCP 30 - Pesticide Product Restrictions › Subchapter VIII - Atrazine Pesticides › Section ATCP 30.30 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The definitions in s.
					 94.67,
					 Stats., apply to this chapter, as do the following definitions:
(1) "Atrazine" or "atrazine active
				  ingredient" means the pesticide chemical
				  2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-1,3,5 triazine.
(2) "Atrazine product" means any pesticide
				  containing the active ingredient atrazine as identified on the EPA registered
				  label, either alone, or in combination with other pesticides.
(3) "Atrazine management area" means a
				  designated area within the state of Wisconsin in which specific restrictions on
				  atrazine use are created under s.
				  ATCP
				  30.34.
(4)
				  "Board" means the board of agriculture, trade and consumer
				  protection.
(5) "Coarse soil" means
				  a surface soil containing soil texture classes sand, loamy sand or sandy
				  loam.
(6) "Department" means the
				  Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
(7) "Enforcement standard" has the meaning
				  specified in s.
				  160.01(2),
				  Stats.
(8) "Field moisture
				  capacity" means the amount of water that can be held by soil, in the root zone
				  of the crop being grown, against the force of gravity.
(9) "Flood plain" means a nearly level
				  alluvial plain bordering a river and subject to flooding unless protected
				  artificially.
(10) "Groundwater"
				  has the meaning specified in s.
				  ATCP
				  31.01(6).
(11) "Irrigation" has the meaning specified
				  in s.
				  ATCP
				  29.01(22).
(12) "Lower Wisconsin river valley" means the
				  river terraces and flood plain on either side of the Wisconsin river,
				  downstream of the state highway 60 bridge at Prairie du Sac, and upstream of
				  the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers.
(13) "Mixer-loader" means a person who mixes
				  pesticide in or transfers pesticide into nurse tanks or application
				  equipment.
(14) "Official
				  groundwater sample" has the meaning specified in s.
				  ATCP
				  31.01(7).
(15) "Official groundwater test result" has
				  the meaning specified in s.
				  ATCP
				  31.01(8).
(16) "Preventive action limit" has the
				  meaning specified in s.
				  160.01(6),
				  Stats.
(17) "Prohibition area"
				  means an area in which atrazine product is prohibited under this
				  subchapter.
(18) "Recharge zone"
				  means the land area contributing recharge water to that portion of an aquifer
				  supplying a well.
(19) "Rescue
				  treatment" means an emergency application of atrazine with crop oil, made after
				  crop emergence to control weeds which are reasonably likely to cause crop yield
				  reduction, either because preplanting, preemergence, or planned postemergence
				  application of herbicides failed to control weeds or because weather conditions
				  prevented use of planned mechanical operations for weed control.
(20) "River terrace" means an old alluvial
				  plain, ordinarily flat or undulating, bordering a river.
(21) "Root zone" means the mass of soil
				  extending downward to the depth of the roots of the crop being grown.
(22) "Soil texture class" means the soil
				  texture designations sand, loamy sand, sandy loam, loam, silt, silt loam, sandy
				  clay loam, clay loam, silty clay loam, sandy clay, silty clay, and clay, as
				  defined in
Soil Taxonomy, Agriculture Handbook No. 436,
pages
				  469 to 472 (U.S. department of agriculture soil conservation service: 1975).
Note:
A copy of relevant portions of
Soil Taxonomy, Agriculture Handbook No. 436
may be inspected
					 at the central offices of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
					 Protection and the Legislative Reference Bureau. This volume is also commonly
					 available in USDA soil conservation service offices throughout the
					 state.
The USDA soil conservation service has prepared soil
					 surveys for most Wisconsin counties, which can be found at the following web
					 address:
http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
.
					 Atrazine users may refer to these surveys to determine the surface soil texture
					 in areas where they wish to apply atrazine. Atrazine users may also use
					 reliable sampling and testing methods to determine soil texture.
(23) "Surface soil" means the soil
				  ordinarily moved in tillage, or its equivalent in uncultivated soil, ranging in
				  depth from 4 to 10 inches.