Fwd: Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk Analysis - Proposed rule

Lee Poulsen wpoulsen@pacbell.net
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:03:53 PDT
I just got this notice. Is this proposed new category and rules 
something we should be worried about? It kind of sounds like a good 
effort to control the entry of potential new weeds or pests. On the 
other hand, would it make it inordinately difficult to import something 
that we all know is perfectly safe?

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category of 
Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk 
Analysis - Proposed rule
Date: 	Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:31:24 -0400
From: 	PPQ_Stakeholder_Registry@aphis.usda.gov
To: 	wpoulsen@pacbell.net



                  Greetings PPQ Stakeholders,

                  You are receiving this email alert because you signed up
                  with USDA-APHIS-PPQ's Stakeholders' Registry to receive
                  information related to the importation of plants.  If you
                  would like to have your name removed from the
                  Stakeholders Registry list please send an email  to
                  Linda.Toran@aphis.usda.gov.  If you would like to make a
                  change in your topics of interest please go to:
                  https://web01.aphis.usda.gov/PPQStakeWeb2.nsf.

                  We are proposing to establish a new category of regulated
                  articles in the regulations governing the importation of
                  nursery stock, also known as plants for planting.  This
                  category would list taxa of plants for planting whose
                  importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis.
                  If scientific evidence indicated that the taxon of plants
                  for planting is a potential quarantine pest or a
                  potential host of a quarantine pest, we would publish a
                  notice that would announce our determination that the
                  taxon is a potential quarantine pest or a potential host
                  of a quarantine pest, cite the scientific evidence we
                  considered in making this determination, and give the
                  public an opportunity to comment on our determination.
                  If we received no comments that changed our
                  determination, the taxon would subsequently be added to
                  the new category.

                  APHIS will consider all comments received on this Docket
                  No. APHIS-2006-0011 on or before October 21, 2009.

                  For additional information go to:
                  http://regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/…
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