Certification Categories and Definitions:

All state categories will now coincide with federal categories.   Nothing has changed except Public Health. Public Health Category is considered a special category strictly for Government Employees.

40 CFR (Code for Federal Regulations)

(c) Ornamental and turf pest control. This category applies to commercial applicators who use or supervise the use of restricted use pesticides to control pests in the maintenance and production of ornamental plants and turf.

(e) Aquatic pest control. This category applies to commercial applicators who use or supervise the use of any restricted use pesticide purposefully applied to standing or running water, excluding applicators engaged in public health related activities included in as specified in paragraph (h)of this section.
(f) Right-of-way pest control. This category applies to commercial applicators who use or supervise the use of restricted use pesticides in the maintenance of roadsides, powerlines, pipelines, and railway rights-of-way, and similar areas.

(g) Industrial, institutional, and structural pest control. This category applies to commercial applicators who use or supervise the use of restricted use pesticides in, on, or around the following: Food handling establishments, packing houses, and food-processing facilities; human dwellings; institutions, such as schools, hospitals and prisons; and industrial establishments, including manufacturing facilities, warehouses, grain elevators, and any other structures and adjacent areas, public or private, for the protection of stored, processed, or manufactured products.
(h) Public health pest control. This category applies to State, Tribal, Federal or other governmental employees and contractors who use or supervise the use of restricted use pesticides in government-sponsored public health programs for the management and control of pests having medical and public health importance.
(n) Non-soil fumigation. This category applies to commercial applicators who use or supervise the use of a restricted use pesticide to fumigate anything other than soil.

State-Only Categories

a. Wood-destroying Organism Management

i.   Wood-destroying organism treatment. Inspecting for the presence or absence of wood-destroying organisms and treating for wood-destroying organisms in or about a residential or other structure by a means other than use of a fumigant.

ii.  Wood-destroying insect inspection. Inspecting for the presence or absence of wood-destroying insects only and excluding preparing treatment proposals.

b. Wood preservation. Application of pesticides labeled for use on utility poles or railroad ties, directly to structural components of wood or wood products, to prevent or manage wood degradation by wood destroying organisms including fungi and bacteria, which are not part of an existing structure. This includes drilling a cavity into a structural timber, inserting a methylisothiocyanate or other similar product into the cavity, and sealing the cavity.