G/SPS/N/USA/1941/Add.2  
 
23 April 2013  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 22 Ap ril 2013, is being circulated at the request 
of the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Plants for Planting Whose Importation Is Not Authorized Pending Pest Risk Analysis; Notice of 
A d d i t i o n  o f  T a x a  o f  P l a n t s  f o r  P l a n t i n g  T o  L i s t  o f  T a x a  W h o s e  I m p o r t a t i o n  I s  N o t  A u t h o r i z e d  
Pending Pest Risk Analysis (Docket No. APHIS-2006-0011) 
 The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is advising the public that we are adding 31 taxa of plants for planting that are quarantine pests and 107 taxa of plants for planting that are 
hosts of 13 quarantine pests to our lists of taxa of plants for planting whose importation is not 
authorized pending pest risk analysis. A previous  notice made data sheets that detailed the 
scientific evidence we evaluated in making the determination that the taxa are quarantine pests or 
hosts of quarantine pests available to the public for review and comment. This notice responds to 
the comments we received and makes available final versions of the data sheets, with changes in response to comments. 
 This notice is available in English at: " http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-04-
18/pdf/2013-09147.pdf ". 
 Federal Register Vol. 78, No. 75, Thursday, 18 April 2013, pages 23209-23219. 
 This notice is subsequent to the one pub lished in the Federal Register on 27 May 2011 
(76 FR 31172-31210, Docket No. APHIS-2006-0011), and effective on 27 June 2011, establishing 
in §319.37-2a a new category of plants for planting whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis (NAPPRA) in order to prevent th e introduction of quarantine pests into the United 
States. The final rule established two lists of taxa whose importation is NAPPRA: A list of taxa of 
plants for planting that are quarantine pests, and a list of taxa of plants for planting that are hosts 
of quarantine pests. For taxa of plants for planti ng that have been determined to be quarantine 
pests, the list will include the names of the taxa. For taxa of plants for planting that are hosts of 
quarantine pests, the list will include the names of the taxa, the foreign places from which the 
taxa's importation is not authorized, and the quarantine pests of concern. The final rule did not add any taxa to the NAPPRA lists. Paragraph (b) of §319.37-2a describes the process for adding 
taxa to the NAPPRA lists. In accordance with that process, we published a notice [1] in the Federal 
Register on 26 July 2011 (76 FR 44572-44573, Docket No. APHIS-2011-0072) that announced our determination that 41 taxa of plants for planting  are quarantine pests and 107 taxa of plants for 
planting are hosts of 13 quarantine pests. That no tice also made available data sheets that detail 
the scientific evidence we evaluated in making the determination that the taxa are quarantine 
pests or hosts of a quarantine pest. We solicited comments concerning the notice and the data sheets for 60 days ending 26 September 2011. We reopened and extended the deadline for 
comments until 25 November 2011, in a document published in the Federal Register on 25 October 
2011 (76 FR 66033). We received 37 comments by that date. G/SPS/N/USA/1941/Add.2 
 
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  This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of  previously notified draft regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation 
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force 
[ ] Other:    
Comment period:  (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potent ially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, norm ally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under 
other circumstances, such as extension of or iginally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  This rule is effective 20 May 2013. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comme nts:  [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
Dr. Arnold Tschanz, Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist, Plants for Planting Policy, RPM, PPQ, 
APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; Tel: +(1 301) 851 2018.  
Text available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250; Tel: +(1 202) 720 1301; Fax: +(1 202) 720 0433; E-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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