APS REGULATORY ALERT

Letters of Intent for the USDA-CSREES National Research Initiative competitive program in Plant Biosecurity; APHIS is reopening the comment period on its interim rule for citrus canker quarantine regulations.
Date: February 7, 2008

March 14, 2008 is the due date for Letters of Intent for the USDA-CSREES National Research Initiative competitive program in Plant Biosecurity. This program supports integrated activities that fill gaps in knowledge on high consequence pathogens or arthropods of economic/social impact to the United States. Complete information on this program is online at http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/nri_rfa.html.

USDA APHIS is reopening the comment period on its interim rule for citrus canker quarantine regulations because APHIS plans to remove an exception for calamondin plants after several calamondin plants growing in a quarantined area were found to be infected with citrus canker. Comments are due by February 28, 2008. Complete information can be found in the January 29, 2008 Federal Register at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-1534.htm. The interim rule and comments received are online at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2007-0032.