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Iowa Pesticide Applicator Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Intro: Types of pesticide applicators in Iowa - CORRECT ANSWERS
Commercial Applicators (another person for compensation); Public Applicators (as
employee govt agencies); Noncommercial Applicators (property owned, rented, or
leased by the applicator or the applicator's employer); Private Applicators (agricultural);
Certified Handlers (preparing, mixing, or loading pesticides)
Intro: Describe certification & recertification requirements - CORRECT ANSWERS
Certification: Employed by a certified, licensed company; fee paid to IDALS; 21-day
grace period (direct supervision); closed-book exam. Recertification: 3-year qualification
cycle; renewable by either testing every third year or attending approved continuing
instruction courses (CIC); core & categories; fee & you get a form.
C1: What agency regulates pesticide use in US - CORRECT ANSWERS
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
C1: Summarize pesticide registration & re-registration - CORRECT ANSWERS
FIFRA requires the EPA to regulate the sale & use & they do this through registration &
labeling of pesticide products; human health & the environment. Re-registration FIFRA
requires EPA to conduct comprehensive reviews of older pesticides human health &
environmental effects
C1: Understand the penalties for violations of FIFRA - CORRECT ANSWERS
Violations of the legal provisions established in FIFRA civil penalties as much as $6,500
for each offense; violation of the law also may subject you to criminal penalties up to
$25,000 or one year in prison, or both.
C1: FIFRA - CORRECT ANSWERS Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (1947) regulates the production, transportation, sale, use, & disposal of
all pesticides
C1: FFDCA - CORRECT ANSWERS Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act sets allowable residue levels to ensure the safety of the food supply
C1: FQPA - CORRECT ANSWERS Food Quality Protection Act
amended both FIFRA & FFDCA & set a tougher standard for pesticides on food.
C1: Residues & Tolerances - CORRECT ANSWERS Residues: Small
amounts of pesticides on fruits, vegetables, grains, other foods, & animal feeds.
Tolerances: the EPA sets allowable residue levels under FFDCA regs, safe tolerances
"a reasonable certainty of no harm".

Iowa Pesticide Applicator Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
C1: How does the ESA relate to pesticides - CORRECT ANSWERS The
Endangered Species Act (ESA): Pesticides use may directly or indirectly, through drift
and runoff, affect endangered or threatened species & their habitat.
C1: Summarize RCRA - CORRECT ANSWERS Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the
"cradle-to-grave", rinsates & hazardous waste; become solid wastes when you want to
discard.
C1: Who is protected by the WPS - CORRECT ANSWERS Worker
Protection Standard (WPS) helps protect employees on farms, forests, nurseries, &
greenhouses from occupational exposure.
C2: List the requirements of pesticide applicator records - CORRECT ANSWERS
1) Name & certification number of licensee; 2) Name & address of landowner or
customer; 3) Address of the place of application of pesticide; 4) Date of application; 5)
Trade name of pesticide;
6) Quantity of pesticide used & the concentration or rate of application; 7) Temperature
and direction & velocity of wind; 8) the use of "restricted use" pesticides; 9) Time
pesticide application begins & ends.
C2: Describe the Sensitive Crops Directory - CORRECT ANSWERS It is
an online registry to identify locations of pesticide-sensitive crops & apiaries (bee
yards): vineyards, orchards, certified organic crops, and fruit & vegetable crops.
Susceptible to drift & meet minimum acreage requirements.
C2: Iowa Bee Rule - CORRECT ANSWERS Owners of apiaries shall
register location (expires Dec 31); shall not apply a pesticide labeled as toxic to bees
within 1 mile of apiaries between 8 am & 6 pm (registered on 1st day of month)
C2: List the notification requirements for urban pesticide applications - CORRECT
ANSWERS Notification: must post signs at the start of application;
display signs for at least 24 hrs after the application (longer if label requires); does not
apply to pesticides applied within a structure or within 6 ft of the outside perimeter of a
structure, nor to the homeowner or tenant. Also, prenotification, durable signs, remove,
provide label
C2: Summarize the Iowa atrazine management rules - CORRECT ANSWERS
Atrazine is a restricted use pesticide due to ground & surface water concerns. Atrazine
application rates are limited to 2.5 lbs per acre per calendar year; restricts rates to 1.5
lbs in 23 counties (7 county -wide 16 in some townships); may not be mixed, loaded, or
repackaged within 50 feet of a sinkhole, well, cistern, lake, water impoundment, this
includes, but is not limited to, abandoned wells, agricultural drainage wells & drainage

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