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PUBLIC LAW 86-139-AUG. 7, 1969

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Public Law 86-139 August 7 1959 -^^ '^^'^ [H. R. 6436] ipQ amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act so as to include nematocides, plant regulators, defoliants, and desiccants, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may Defo'iian?,"'tod"D^ be cited as the "Nematocide, Plant Regulator, Defoliant, and DesicS^igsgf"''"'*"'*"* cant Amendment of 1959". SEC. 2. (A) The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (61 Stat. 163; 7 U.S.C. 135-135k) is amended so that sections 2a and 2b read as follows: "a. The term 'economic poison' means (1) a n j substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi, weeds, and other forms of plant or animal life or viruses, except viruses on or in living man or other animals, which the Secretary shall declare to be a pest, and (2) any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant. "b. The term 'device' means any instrument or contrivance intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigating insects or rodents or destroying repelling, or mitigating fungi, nematodes, or such other pests as may be designated by the Secretary, but not including equipment used for the application of economic poisons when sold separately therefrom." 7 USC 135. ^g^ Section 2 of such Act is further amended by redesignating subsections g through u to be subsections 1 through z respectively; and by adding new subsections g, h, i, j, and k, and amending new subsections p and z, to read respectively as follows: "g. The term 'nematocide' means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating nematodes. "h. The term 'plant regulator' means any substance or mixture of substances, intended through physiological action, for accelerating or retarding the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or for otherwise altering the behavior of ornamental or crop plants or the produce thereof, but shall not include substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, and soil amendments. "i. The term 'defoliant' means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission. " j. The term 'desiccant' means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue, "k. The term 'nematode' means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and class nematoda, that is, unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or saclike bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, plants or plant parts; may also be called nemas or eel worms. "p. The term 'active ingredient' means— "(1) in the case of an economic poison other than a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant, an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate insects, nematodes, fungi, rodents, weeds, or other pests; "(2) in the case of a plant regulator, an ingredient which, through physiological action, will accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants or the produce thereof; N e matocide, «a«t«r P l a n t Regulator,

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