Section 13142 Of Article 15. The Pesticide Contamination Prevention Act From California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 7. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 15.
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. For purposes of this article, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Active ingredient" has the same meaning as defined in Section
136 of Title 7 of the United States Code.
(b) "Agricultural use" has the same meaning as defined in Section
11408.
(c) "Board" means the State Water Resources Control Board.
(d) "Chemigation" means a method of irrigation whereby a pesticide
is mixed with irrigation water before the water is applied to the
crop or to the soil.
(e) "Degradation product" means a substance resulting from the
transformation of a pesticide by physicochemical or biochemical
means.
(f) "Groundwater protection data gap" means that, for a particular
pesticide, the director, after study, has been unable to determine
that each study required pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 13143
has been submitted or that each study submitted pursuant to
subdivision (a) of Section 13143 is valid, complete, and adequate.
(g) "Henry's Law constant" is an indicator of the escaping
tendency of dilute solutes from water and is approximated by the
ratio of the vapor pressure to the water solubility at the same
temperature.
(h) "Pesticide" is defined in Section 12753.
(i) "Pesticide registrant" means a person that has registered a
pesticide pursuant to this chapter.
(j) "Pollute" means to introduce a pesticide product into the
groundwaters of the state resulting in an active ingredient, other
specified ingredient, or a degradation product of a pesticide above a
level that does not cause adverse health effects, accounting for an
adequate margin of safety.
(k) "Pollution" means the consequence of polluting.
(l) "Soil adsorption coefficient" is a measure of the tendency of
pesticides, or their biologically active transformation products, to
bond to the surfaces of soil particles.
(m) "Soil microbial zone" means the zone of the soil below which
the activity of microbial species is so reduced that it has no
significant effect on pesticide breakdown.