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
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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/…
.