G/SPS/N/USA/2719/Add.1  
 
5 February 2016  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 5 February 2016, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Final Rule: Importation of Orchids in Growing Media from Taiwan (Docket No. APHIS-2014-0041) 
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (A PHIS) is amending the regulations governing the 
importation of plants and plant products to add or chid plants of the genus Oncidium from Chinese 
Taipei to the list of plants that may be imported into the United States in an approved growing medium, subject to specified growing, inspection, and certification requirements. It is taking this 
action in response to a request from the Governme nt of Chinese Taipei and after determining that 
the plants could be imported, under certain conditions, without resulting in the introduction into, or the dissemination within, the United States of a quarantine plant pest. 
This notice is available in English at: h ttp://www.regulations.gov/#! documentDetail;D=APHIS-
2014-0041-0058. 
Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 23 Thursday, 4 February 2016 pgs. 5881-5888. APHIS solicited comments concerning the proposal for 60 days ending 2 February 2015. It 
reopened and extended the deadline for comments until 18 March 2015, in a document published 
in the Federal Register on 12 March 2015 (80 FR 12954, Docket No. APHIS-2014-0041). APHIS received 50 comments on the proposed rule by that date. 
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) : The rule is effective on 7 March 2016. G/SPS/N/USA/2719/Add.1 
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle co mments: [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax nu mber and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
Ms Heather Coady, Regulatory Policy Specialist, Plants for Planting Policy, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 
Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737; +(301) 851 2076  
Text(s) available from: [X] National Notificati on 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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