OMB Approves APHIS Final Rule on Importation of Nursery Stock Plants
The Office of Management and Budget has approved an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service final rule to establish a new category of "regulated articles" in the regulations governing the importation of nursery stock, also known as plants for planting.…
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This category will list taxa of plants for planting whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis. This new category will allow APHIS to take prompt action on evidence that the importation of a taxon of plants for planting poses a risk while continuing to allow for public participation in the process.