Washington. DC
July 23, 2009
[Federal Register: July 23, 2009
(Volume 74, Number 140)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 36403-36414]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr23jy09-5]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
7 CFR Part 319
[Docket No. APHIS-2006-0011]
RIN 0579-AC03
Importation of Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category
of Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation Pending
Pest Risk Analysis
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
SUMMARY: 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. We would allow
any person to petition for a pest risk analysis to be conducted
for a taxon that has been added to the new category. After the
pest risk analysis was completed, we would remove the taxon from
the category and allow its importation subject to general
requirements, allow its importation subject to specific
restrictions, or prohibit its importation. We would consider
applications for permits to import small quantities of germplasm
from taxa whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk
analysis, for experimental or scientific purposes under
controlled conditions. This new category would allow us to take
prompt action on evidence that the importation of a taxon of
plants for planting may pose a risk while continuing to allow
for public participation in the process.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or
before October 21, 2009.
Full notice:
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-17535.pdf |
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