APHIS Expands the Asian Citrus Psyllid Quarantined Area in Arizona

FOR INFORMATION

DA-2015-09

February 10, 2015

 

Subject: APHIS Expands the Asian Citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri) Quarantined Area in Arizona

 

To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials

 

Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Agriculture (ADA) and the Arizona citrus industry, is expanding the area quarantined for the Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) in Arizona. APHIS is adding new areas in Pima and Santa Cruz counties and expanding the previously established quarantined area in Yuma County. APHIS is taking this action because of the positive detection of ACP in these areas. The samples were collected during surveys conducted as part of the cooperative Citrus Health Response Program (CHRP).

 

APHIS is applying safeguarding measures on the interstate movement of regulated articles from the newly regulated areas in Pima, Santa Cruz, and Yuma counties. These measures parallel the intrastate quarantine the ADA initiated on December 8, 2014. This action is necessary to prevent the spread of ACP to non-infested areas of the United States.

 

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

 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant-health/citrus-greening

 

APHIS will publish a notice of this change in the Federal Register. For additional information, you may call CHRP 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

 

• SPRO-DA-2015-09+-+ACP+Arizona+expansion.pdf