Specifications include, but are not limited to: a) Focuses on the long-term prevention or suppression of pest problems through economically sound measures that: i. Protect the health and safety of students, staff and faculty; ii. Protect the integrity of campus buildings and grounds; iii. Maintain a productive learning environment; and iv. Protect local ecosystem health b) Focuses on the prevention of pest problems by working to reduce or eliminate conditions of property construction, operation, and mainte nance that promote or allow for the establishme nt, feeding, breeding, and proliferation of pest populations or other conditions that are conducive to pests or that create harborage for pests; Incorporates the use of sanitation, structural remediation, or habitat manipulation or of mechanical, biological, and chemical pest control measures that present a reduced risk or have a low impact and, for the purpose of mitigating a declared pest emergency, the application of pesticides that are not low-impact pesticide; c) Includes regular monitoring and inspections to detect pests, pest damage and unsanctioned pesticide usage; d) Evaluates the need for pest control by identifying acceptable pest population density levels; e) Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of pest control measures; f) Excludes the application of pesticides on a routine schedule for purely preventative purposes, other than applications of pesticides designed to attract or be consumed by pests; g) Excludes the application of pesticides for purely aesthetic purposes; h) Includes school staff education about sanitation, monitoring, inspection, and pest control measures; i) Gives preference to the use of nonchemical pest control measures; j) Allows the use of low-impact pesticides if nonchemical pest control measures are ineffective; and Allows the application of a pesticide that is not a low-impact pesticide only to mitigate a declared pest emergency or if the application is by, or at the direction or order of, a public health official.
