Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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state environmental goals and indication project

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Program to assist state environmental agencies by providing technical and financial assistance in the development of environmental goals and indicators.

State Implementation Plans (SIP)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

EPA approved state plans for the establishment, regulation, and enforcement of air pollution standards.

state management plan

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Under FIFRA, a state management plan required by EPA to allow states, tribes, and U.S. territories the flexibility to design and implement ways to protect ground water from the use of certain ...

static water depth

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The vertical distance from the centerline of the pump discharge down to the surface level of the free pool while no water is being drawn from the pool or water table.

1. Elevation or level of the water table in a well when the pump is not operating. 2. The level or elevation to which water would rise in a tube connected to an artesian aquifer or basin in a conduit ...

stationary source

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A fixed-site producer of pollution, mainly power plants and other facilities using industrial combustion processes. (See: point source.)

sterilizer

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

One of three groups of anti-microbials registered by EPA for public health uses. EPA considers an antimicrobial to be a sterilizer when it destroys or eliminates all forms of bacteria, viruses, and ...