49-301. Definitions


In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:


1. "Active ingredient" has the meaning assigned to the term by title 7 United
States Code section 136.


2. "Applicant" means any person who applies for a registration or amended
registration pursuant to title 3, chapter 2, article 5 or a conditional registration
pursuant to section 49-310.


3. "Chemigation" means a method of irrigation by which a pesticide is mixed with
irrigation water before the water is applied to the crop or the soil.


4. "Degradation product" means a substance resulting from the transformation of a
pesticide by physicochemical or biochemical means.


5. "Groundwater protection data gap" means that a pesticide for agricultural use
has been registered with the Arizona department of agriculture without the director of
environmental quality finding that the information submitted pursuant to section 49-302
meets the requirements of this article.


6. "Henry's law constant" means an indicator of the escaping tendency of dilute
solutes from water which is approximated by the ratio of the vapor pressure to the water
solubility at the same temperature.


7. "New pesticide" means a pesticide that contains an active ingredient for which
the information required under section 49-302, subsection A has not been submitted by the
applicant for registration and that has not been approved by the director of
environmental quality.


8. "Pesticide" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for either:


(a) Preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest.


(b) Use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.


9. "Pollution" means the introduction into the groundwaters of this state of an
active ingredient, other specified product or degradation product of an active ingredient
at above a level, with an adequate margin of safety, that does not cause adverse effects
on human health or safety.


10. "Registrant" means a person that has registered a pesticide pursuant to title 3,
chapter 2, article 5.


11. "Soil adsorption coefficient" means a measure of the tendency of a pesticide, or
its biologically active transformation products, to bond to the surfaces of soil
particles.