---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 136w–5"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "136w–5"
heading: "Minimum requirements for training of maintenance applicators and service technicians"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/136w-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Insecticides and Environmental Pesticide Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Environmental Pesticide Control"
---

# §136w–5. Minimum requirements for training of maintenance applicators and service technicians


Each [State](/usc/7/136.md?p=aa) may establish minimum requirements for training of [maintenance applicators](/usc/7/136.md?p=jj) and [service technicians](/usc/7/136.md?p=kk). Such training may include instruction in the safe and effective handling and use of [pesticides](/usc/7/136.md?p=u) in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency approved [labeling](/usc/7/136.md?p=p-2), and instruction in integrated [pest](/usc/7/136.md?p=t) management techniques. The authority of the [Administrator](/usc/7/136.md?p=b) with respect to minimum requirements for training of [maintenance applicators](/usc/7/136.md?p=jj) and [service technicians](/usc/7/136.md?p=kk) shall be limited to ensuring that each [State](/usc/7/136.md?p=aa) understands the provisions of this section.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1947, ch. 125, § 30, as added Pub. L. 104–170, title I, § 121(2), Aug. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 1492.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 30 of act June 25, 1947, ch. 125, was renumbered section 34 and is classified to section 136x of this title.