APHIS Reopens Comment on 148 Plant Taxa Considered for New Import Prohibition

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is reopening the comment period of its July 2011 notice that advised the public that APHIS had determined that 41 taxa of plants for planting are quarantine pests and 107 taxa of plants for planting are hosts of 13 quarantine pests and therefore should be added to its new lists of taxa of plants for planting whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis. The notice also made available to the public for review and comment data sheets that detail the scientific evidence APHIS evaluated in making its determinations.