Section 80.01. Definitions.

  As used in these rules, the following terms mean:

(1)  "Pesticide review board" means the board created by s. 15.195 , Stats.

(2)  "Pesticide" has the meaning designated in s. 94.67 , Stats.

(3)  "Department" means the department of natural resources.

(4)  "Limited use pesticide" means a pesticide which under certain conditions or usages constitutes a serious hazard to wild animals other than those it is intended to control. The following is a list of such pesticides: - See PDF for table

(5)  "Registration" means compliance with the provisions of s. 94.68 , Stats.

(6)  "Applications" means the use of a pesticide in any manner whatsoever but excluding pesticide manufacturing or formulating processes.

(7)  "Rate of application" means the total amount of actual toxicant (not formulation) applied per unit area and ordinarily expressed in pounds per acre or in reference to shade trees or other trees treated individually in weight of actual toxicant per tree.

(8)  "Description of area to be treated" means the description for rural area by township, range, section and forty; for urban area, by the legal description.

(9)  "Use" means the application of a pesticide outdoors in such manner that it will be introduced into and become part of the natural environment. Use of the material within buildings or for termite control in the vicinity of buildings is excluded from the meaning of this term.

(10)  "Waters of the state" includes those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, and all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, drainage systems and other surface or ground water, natural or artificial, public or private, within the state or its jurisdiction.