Resources for States and Educators to Use in Training Pesticide Applicators

National Training Manuals

• National Pesticide Applicator Certification Core Manual (pdf) (26.96 MB, 2014)
• National Aerial Applicator's Manual (pdf) (4.83 MB, 2014)
• National Right-of-Way Herbicide Applicator Test Plan and Training Syllabus (pdf) (3.95 MB, 2010)
• National Soil Fumigation Manual (pdf) (5.05 MB, 2012)

National Exam Item Banks

EPA’s cooperative agreement partners, state lead agencies and extension agent educators have developed the following training and testing resources for applicator certification that are available only for state, tribal and territory pesticide lead agencies.  Request access to these materials from Jeanne Kasai (kasai.jeanne@epa.gov). 

• National Core Exam Item Bank
• National Aerial Application Exam Item Bank
• National Right-of-Way Exam Project
• National Soil Fumigation Exam Item Bank
• National Non-soil Fumigation Exam Item Bank

For Additional Information

Applicator certification and training resources are available from the:

• Certification Plan and Reporting Database (CPARD)