Under Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill, the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS) provides funding for Federal, 

State, tribal, and nongovernmental efforts to protect 

U.S. plant health. Specifically, Section 10007 authorizes 

$62.5 million per year in Commodity Credit Corporation 

funding from fiscal year (FY) 2014 to FY 2017 and 

$75 million per year in FY 2018 and beyond. Since 2009, 

APHIS has funded more than 1,700 Farm Bill projects 

across the United States.

Through these projects, APHIS partners with a broad 

range of stakeholders to achieve shared plant health 

protection goals. These goals include: 

• finding and responding to invasive pests and diseases 

that threaten American agriculture; 

• increasing public involvement in efforts to stop

pest and disease spread; and 

• ensuring the global competitiveness of U.S. nursery 

production and specialty crops (such as grapes, fruit 

and nut trees, citrus, berries, and ornamentals) by 

protecting them from economically harmful pests 

and diseases.

Section 10007 funding supports two specific areas: 

the Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster 

Prevention Program and the National Clean Plant Network. 

Plant Pest and Disease Management and 

Disaster Prevention Program

Under this program, funding is available for cooperators 

in all U.S. States and Territories. This includes State 

and Federal agencies, Tribal Nations, universities, 

nongovernmental organizations, and private entities.

Funded projects are organized around six goals.

These goals represent critical needs and opportunities to 

strengthen, prevent, detect, and mitigate invasive pests 

and diseases. The six strategic goals focus on:

1. enhancing plant pest and disease analysis 

and survey,

2. targeting domestic inspection activities at vulnerable 

points in the safeguarding continuum,

3. enhancing and strengthening pest identification 

and technology,

4. safeguarding nursery production,

5. conducting targeted outreach and education, and 

6. enhancing mitigation and rapid response capabilities. 

National Clean Plant Network

Each year, at least $5 million of the Farm Bill Section 

10007 funding goes to the National Clean Plant Network 

(NCPN). Network funding supports established university 

and government clean plant centers to develop, maintain, 

and provide stock of select specialty crops. Industry and 

others use the stock material to start or regrow clean 

plant orchards, vineyards, groves, and other commercial 

plantings.

Funding supports projects that:

• organize clean plant centers into collaborative networks;

• improve diagnostic capabilities, offer therapeutic 

treatments in specialty crop plants, modernize facility 

infrastructure, and establish foundation plantings; and

• provide high-quality propagative plant material tested 

for targeted plant pathogens.

2014 Farm Bill Section 10007 

Protecting Plant Health

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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

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Use science to make informed

decisions

Develop risk-based models for

decision making

Gather and analyze available data

Monitor high-risk pathways

Detect plant pests early 

Mitigate pest risk to promote 

safe trade

Deploy survey procedures

and tools

Accurately identify new pest

threats faster

Support rapid response

Develop management strategies

Harmonize clean plant standards

Mitigate pests and pathogens 

in nurseries 

STRATEGIC GOALS

Develop pest management tools

Reduce potential adverse impacts

Minimize spread of detected plant

pests

Enhance plant pest and 

disease analysis

Start clean, stay clean

Improve plant pest and 

disease survey efforts

Enhance and strengthen pest 

identification and technology

Conduct targeted 

outreach and education

Target domestic inspection

Safeguard nursery 

production

National Clean

Plant Network

Enhance mitigation and rapid

response capabilites

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Build interconnections and

partnerships to enhance clean 

plant center capacity

Conduct plant pathogen diagnostics

and therapy

Establish foundations of clean 

source plants

Increase understanding of plant 

pest management

Raise awareness about high-risk

pathways and pest control efforts

Educate the public on preventing 

the spread of pests in nurseries

Inspect cargo for pests in

interstate trade

Efficiently move products

and commodities

Enhance inspections using 

dog teams

Survey for invasive 

threats to honey 

bee populations

Collect baseline 

data on environmental toxins and 

diseases to help 

understand 

colony losses

Use national survey 

data to predict 

colony losses

Safeguard highvalue commodities 

for trade

Detect pests and 

pathogens in highrisk pathways

Protect specialty 

crops from pests 

and diseases

Enhance mitigation 

to minimize pest 

threats

Conduct outreach 

and education

Collaborate on 

biological control 

strategies 

PREVENTION

RECOVERY RESPONSE

PREPAREDNESS

SAFEGUARDING

CONTINUUM

Fruits of the 2014 Farm Bill 

Section 10007 include...

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STRATEGIC GOALS

Program Aid No. 2165

Issued July 2015

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