APHIS Proposes to Add 59 Plants for Planting to NAPPRA List of Prohibited Imports
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is asking for comments by July 5 on its findings that 59 types of plants for planting are either quarantine pests or hosts of quarantine pests, and should therefore be added to APHIS' lists of taxa of plants for planting whose importation is Not Authorized Pending Pest Risk Analysis (NAPPRA). APHIS said 37 of the plants are quarantine pests, and another 22 are hosts of nine quarantine pests.
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As explained in its May 2011 final rule, importation is prohibited of plants for planting taxa designated as NAPPRA, pending completion of a pest risk analysis, which must be requested (see 11053128). APHIS said that it will allow any person to petition for a pest risk analysis to be conducted and after its completion will either: (i) remove the taxon from the category and allow its importation subject to general requirements; (ii) allow its importation subject to specific restrictions; or (iii) continue to prohibit its importation.
(Federal Register 05/06/16)