APHIS Updates the Citrus Black Spot (Guignardia citricarpa) Quarantine Area in Florida

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FOR INFORMATION

DA-2019-16

June 25, 2019

 

 Subject:             APHIS Updates the Citrus Black Spot (Guignardia citricarpa) Quarantine Area in Florida

 

 To:                     State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials

 

Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is adding eight sections in Charlotte County, nine sections in Lee County, 28 sections in Hendry County, and five sections in Collier County to the citrus black spot (CBS) quarantine area in Florida. This action is in response to the confirmation of CBS during annual surveys conducted by APHIS and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry (DPI). The quarantine is updated annually at the completion of our residential and grove surveys for CBS. The expansion marks the first time that CBS has been detected on a residential property since the disease was first found in Florida in 2010.

 

APHIS is applying safeguarding measures and restrictions on the interstate movement or entry into foreign trade of regulated articles from the quarantine. Regulated articles from quarantine areas are subject to all interstate movement conditions outlined in a Federal Order that APHIS issued on March 16, 2012. The requirements of the Federal Order are parallel to DPI's state-interior quarantine.

 

A list of the current CBS quarantine areas, Federal Orders, and APHIS-approved packinghouse procedures may be found at:

 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/planthealth/blackspot

 

In 2010, CBS was first identified in the Collier and Hendry Counties of Florida. Symptoms of CBS are most evident on mature fruit and typically remain latent on leaves with little to no symptom development until after the leaves die. Fresh citrus fruit that is moved interstate from the CBS quarantine areas must be packed in commercial citrus packinghouses operating under a compliance agreement with APHIS and the fruit must be processed using APHIS-approved methods. Citrus plant parts other than fresh fruit are prohibited from movement outside the quarantine area.

 

For additional information regarding the CBS Program, you may contact Citrus Health Response Program National Coordinator Angela McMellen-Brannigan at 301-851-2314.

 

 

/s/

Osama El-Lissy

Deputy Administrator

Plant Protection and Quarantine

 

 

 

 

United States Department of Agriculture

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Plant Protection and Quarantine

Quarantined Areas; Citrus Black Spot (CBS)

Reason for update: Update of CBS quarantined areas in Florida (Shown below in blue).

 

Quarantined Areas for CBS

 

Florida: Portions of the State as follows:

 

County

Township

Range

Section

Charlotte

40

27

14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28

Charlotte

42

27

35, 36

Collier

46

28

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, , 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, 36

Collier

46

29

1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 1, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36

Collier

46

30

6, 7, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, 32

Collier

47

27

4, 5, 6

Collier

47

29

7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

Collier

47

30

1, 12, 13, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

Collier

48

29

1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

Collier

48

30

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Hendry

43

28

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24

Hendry

43

29

7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Hendry

43

30

13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35,

Hendry

43

31

17, 18, 19, 20, 30

Hendry

43

32

21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35

Hendry

44

31

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

Hendry

44

32

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36

Hendry

44

33

6, 7, 18

Hendry

44

29

1, 12, 13

Hendry

44

30

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Hendry

45

29

7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

Hendry

45

30

31

Hendry

45

33

32, 33, 34

Hendry

46

31

25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

Hendry

46

32

11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

Hendry

46

33

1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35

Hendry

46

34

5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18

Hendry

47

31

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30, 31,

Hendry

47

32

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Hendry

47

33

2, 3, , 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 32, 33, 34

Hendry

47

34

16, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29

Hendry

48

31

6, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, 36

Hendry

48

32

19, 30, 31

Hendry

48

34

3, 4, 5, 8, 9

Lee

43

27

1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12

Lee

45

27

1, 12, 13

Lee

46

25

7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Lee

46

27

22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

Polk

32

28

33