APHIS Expands the Regulated Area for the Asian Citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri) in San Luis Obispo County in California

FOR INFORMATION

DA-2014-46

October 28, 2014

 

Subject: APHIS Expands the Regulated Area for the Asian Citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri) in San Luis Obispo County in California

 

To:   State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials

 

Effectively immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in cooperation with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), is expanding the area regulated for the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) in California. APHIS is adding 158 square miles to the quarantined area due to additional detections of ACP in San Luis Obispo County.

 

APHIS is applying safeguarding measures on the interstate movement of regulated articles from the regulated area in San Luis Obispo County. These measures parallel the intrastate quarantine that CDFA enacted on August 26, 2014. This action is necessary to prevent the spread of ACP to non-infested areas of the United States. ACP is considered present only in some areas in California and is subject to official control via state and federal quarantines.

 

The specific changes to the regulated areas in California are attached and can also be found at:

 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_pest_info/citrus_greening

 

APHIS will publish a notice of this change in the Federal Register. For additional information, you may call Citrus Health Response Program National Coordinator Prakash Hebbar at 301-851-2228 or National Policy Manager for Citrus Disease Programs Lynn Evans-Goldner at 301-851-2286.

 

 

/s/

Osama El-Lissy

Deputy Administrator

Plant Protection and Quarantine

 

Attachment: Quarantined Areas for Citrus Greening and Asian Citrus Psyllid