40 CFR §170.103
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Exceptions. This subpart does not apply when any pesticide is applied on an agricultural establishment in the following circumstances:
- (a)For mosquito abatement, Mediterranean fruit fly eradication, or similar wide-area public pest control programs sponsored by governmental entities;
- (b)On livestock or other animals, or in or about animal premises;
- (c)On plants grown for other than commercial or research purposes, which may include plants in habitations, home fruit and vegetable gardens, and home greenhouses;
- (d)On plants that are in ornamental gardens, parks, and public or private lawns and grounds that are intended only for aesthetic purposes or climatic modification;
- (e)By injection directly into agricultural plants. Direct injection does not include “hack and squirt,” “frill and spray,” chemigation, soil-incorporation, or soil-injection;
- (f)In a manner not directly related to the production of agricultural plants, including, but not limited to, structural pest control, control of vegetation along rights-of-way and in other noncrop areas, and pasture and rangeland use;
- (g)For control of vertebrate pests;
- (h)As attractants or repellents in traps;
- (i)On the harvested portions of agricultural plants or on harvested timber; and
- (j)For research uses of unregistered pesticides.