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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1187/Add.5 
18 June 2008  
 (08-2890) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
 
 
The following communication, received on 12 June 2008, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the United States . 
 
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 Proposed rule; withdrawal:  Importation of Nursery Stock; Postentry Quarantine Requirements for 
Potential Hosts of Chrysanthemum White Rust and Definition of From (03–002–7)  
  The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the US Department of 
Agriculture is withdrawing a proposed rule that w ould have amended the nursery stock regulations to 
provide an option in which the postentry quarantine growing period for articles of Chrysanthemum  
spp., Leucanthemella serotina , and Nipponanthemum nipponicum  that are imported from certain 
locations would have been reduced  from 6 months to 2 months, pr ovided that the grower of those 
plants implemented a systems approach to preven t the imported articles from being infected with 
chrysanthemum white rust.  The proposed rule woul d also have amended the definition of from.  We 
are taking this action after considering the comme nts we received following the publication of the 
proposed rule.   This action was published in the Federal Re gister:  6 May 2008 (Volume 73, Number 88) 
Proposed Rules Pages 24886-24887 (available in  English).  To view online, go to 
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/advanced.html, select 2008 FR Vol. 73, and type 24886 in search box. 
  On 8 August 2007, we published in the Fe deral Register (72 FR 44425–44433, Docket 
No. 03–002–4) a proposed rule that would have amended the nursery stock regulations in 7 CFR 
part 319 to provide an option in which the postentry quarantine growing period for articles of 
Chrysanthemum  spp., Leucanthemella serotina , and Nipponanthemum nipponicum  that are imported 
from certain locations would have been reduced from 6 months to 2 months, provided that the grower 
of those plants implemented a systems approach in  the country of origin to prevent the imported 
articles from being infected with chrysanthemum white rust.  The pr oposed rule would also have 
amended the definition of from in § 319.37–1 to read:  "An article is considered to be "from" the 
country where it, or the plants from which the artic le was derived, was actively growing for at least 
9 months immediately prior to export."  This  proposed rule can be viewed online; go to 
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/advanced.html
, select 2007 FR Vol. 72, and type 44425 in search box.  
  We solicited comments concerning our proposal for 60 days ending on 9 October 2007.  We 
reopened and extended the deadline for comments un til 26 November 2007 in  a document published 
in the Federal Register on 26 October 2007 (Doc ket No. 03–002–5, 72 FR 60790).  We received G/SPS/N/USA/1187/Add.5 
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  13 comments by that date.  They were from produ cers, exporters, researchers, and representatives of 
local, State, and foreign governments.  
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, 
International Regulations and Sta ndards Division (IRSD), Stop 1027, 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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