APHIS Removes a Portion of the Township of Monroe, Clermont County, Ohio, from the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) Regulated Area

FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION
DA-2018-39
October 29, 2018

Subject: APHIS Removes a Portion of the Township of Monroe, Clermont County, Ohio, from the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) Regulated Area

To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials

Effective immediately, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is removing the one-half square mile from the Asian Longhorned beetle (ALB) regulated area in the Township of Monroe, Clermont County, Ohio. APHIS determined that this area can be removed from quarantine after the program completed final surveys of host trees within the regulated area. The regulated area that includes all of East Fork State Park, Tate Township, and a portion of Williamsburg Township remains in effect.

ALB is a destructive wood-boring pest of maple and other hardwoods. ALB was first discovered in the United States in Brooklyn, New York, in August 1996. ALB was later detected in Chicago, Illinois (1998), New Jersey (2002, 2004), Massachusetts (2008, 2010), and Ohio (2011). After the completion of control and regulatory activities, and following confirmation surveys, ALB was declared eradicated from Illinois (2008); Hudson County, New Jersey (2008); Islip, New York (2011); Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey (2013); Manhattan and Staten Island, New York (2013); and Suffolk and Norfolk Counties, Massachusetts (2014). In 2018, eradication of ALB was declared from Batavia and Stonelick Townships in Clermont County, Ohio. Program activities continue in the boroughs of Queens, and Brooklyn, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties in New York, and Worcester County, Massachusetts.

For more information regarding APHIS’ ALB Eradication Program, you may contact Paul Chaloux, ALB National Policy Manager, at (301) 851-2064.

Osama El-Lissy
Deputy Administrator
Plant Protection and Quarantine

 

 

FEDERAL ORDER

Removal of a Portion of the Township of Monroe, Clermont County, Ohio as a Quarantine Area for the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)

DA-2018-39
October 29, 2018

This Federal Order removes the one-half square mile Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) regulated area in a portion of the Township of Monroe, Clermont County, Ohio.

This Federal Order is issued pursuant to the regulatory authority provided by the Plant Protection Act of June 20, 2000, as amended, Section 412(a), 7 U.S.C. 7712(a), which authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit or restrict the movement in interstate commerce of any plant, plant part, or article, or means of conveyance, if the Secretary determines the prohibition or restriction is necessary to prevent the dissemination of a plant pest within the United States and is likewise issued pursuant to the regulations promulgated under the Plant Protection Act found at 7 CFR 301.51.

Federal Orders amending quarantined areas of Ohio have been necessary due to the ongoing delimitation and control of the ALB infestation. This Federal Order updates and replaces all previous versions of Federal Orders pertaining to the modification of quarantine areas in the ALB domestic regulations.

Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is removing the one-half square mile ALB regulated area in a portion of the Township of Monroe, Clermont County, Ohio.

The land parcels being removed from quarantine in Clermont County, Ohio are as follows:

232609C094, 232609C113, 232609C215, 232609C085, 232609C128, 232609B224, 232609B188, 232609E223, 232609B215, 232609B193, 232609E075, 232609B161, 232609E156, 232609E245, 232609E037, 232609E074, 232609E230, 232609E031, 232609E220, 232609E232, 232609E240, 232609E239, 232609E241, 232609E175, 232609E228, 232609E250, 232609E235, 232609E238, 232609E227, 232609E242, 232609E226, 232609E249, 232609E236, 232609E234, 232609C217, 232609C040, 234715.008, 232609C227, 232609C222, 232609C092, 232609C093, 232609C129, 232609C098, 232609C195, 232609C100, 232609C169, 232609C136, 232609C097, 232609C139, 232609C148, 232609C042, 232609C150, 232609C182, 234715.009, 234715.005, 234715.006, 234715.001, 232609E246, 232609E247, 234715.004, 234715.003, 232609E222, 232609C228, 234425.001, 232609E233, 232609C170, 232609C216, 232609C196, 232609C105, 232609E237, 232609C225, 232609C091, 232609C197, 232609C218, 232609C198, 232609C041, 232609C212, 232609C194, 232609C214, 232609E224, 232609E231, 232609E248, 234715.007, 234715.002, 232609C120, 232609C226, 232609C229, and 232609C043.

The APHIS Administrator has determined that a quarantine area in the locations listed above is no longer necessary in order to prevent the human-assisted spread of ALB. After the completion of control and regulatory activities, and based on the results of negative surveys of all regulated host plants within the above quarantine area, APHIS determined that the portion of the Township of Monroe, Clermont County, Ohio, have met the criteria for removal of the federal quarantine for ALB. Therefore, effective immediately, all interstate movements of ALB regulated articles from the above described area are no longer required to be in accordance with the regulations promulgated pursuant to the Plant Protection Act found at 7 CFR 301.51 et seq. and any applicable provisions of previous Federal Orders.

APHIS has confirmed ALB infestations in various areas of the United States for which the Administrator has determined that it is necessary to regulate these areas in order to prevent the human-assisted spread of ALB. The quarantined areas established to contain the spread of ALB are designated in the Federal regulations located at 7 CFR 301.51-3 and in the Federal Orders, which are located at the following APHIS website: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/planthealth/alb-quarantine.

For more information about APHIS’ ALB Eradication Program, you may contact Paul Chaloux, ALB National Policy Manager, at 301-851-2064.

APHIS appreciates the cooperative relationship with the State of Ohio in the effort to prevent the spread of ALB.