APS REGULATORY ALERT

USDA Issues Interim Rule regarding citrus canker quarantine; EPA announces Reregistration Eligibility Decision for PCNB
Date: August 10, 2006

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued an interim rule which took effect on August 1 and upon which public comments are sought by October 2, 2006 which amends the citrus canker regulations to list the entire State of Florida as a quarantined area for citrus canker and to amend the requirements for the movement of regulated articles from Florida now that the eradication of citrus canker in Florida is no longer being carried out as an objective. For complete details see the August 1 Federal Register: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-12314.htm

EPA announces its Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for Pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB), a fungicide used to control plant diseases on vegetables (predominantly green beans and cole crops), field crops (cotton, potatoes, and peanuts), and seeds (seed treatments of barley, beans, corn, cotton, oats, peas, peanut, rice, safflower, sorghum, soybean, sugar beet, and wheat) upon which public comments are due to EPA by October 2, 2006 - For complete details see the August 2 Federal Register: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-12485.htm