The state agencies also have primary responsibility for training and certifying pesticide applicators.

Statewide licensing programs for pesticide applicators and users.

It holds confidential any information about the names and addresses of the pesticide applicators - including farmers.

Would have required farmers and commercial pesticide applicators to report annually the types and quantities of chemicals they use.

The plaintiffs had charged that the new regulations went beyond a state law that says pesticide applicators must provide property owners with information about the chemicals used.

Pest at Rest, a commercial and residential pest control service that prepares trainees to take a state licensing exam as pesticide applicators.

To the Editor: I am a certified arborist and pesticide applicator.

- **Each student will be trained as a private pesticide applicator.

In some circumstances, use of a registered pesticide may be restricted to pesticide applicators with special training.

The incidents led to extensive public discussion of the dangers of pesticides and to several arrests of pesticide applicators.