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Plant Protection Act

Section 7721

Fiscal Year 2024 Spending 

Plan

National Clean Plant Network

January 2024
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Contents

Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 3

Information for Cooperators................................................................................................................... 3

Funding by State..................................................................................................................................... 4

Arkansas

California

Florida

Hawaii

Louisiana

Maryland

Mississippi

Missouri

New York

North Carolina

Oregon

Puerto Rico

South Carolina

Texas

Washington
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Summary

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS) is allocating $7.75 million to support 21 projects under the Plant Protection Act’s 

Section 7721 (PPA 7721) Program’s National Clean Plant Network (NCPN). This amount 

includes direct program costs. The NCPN works to establish a network of clean plant centers for 

diagnostic and pathogen elimination services to produce clean propagative plant material and 

maintain blocks of pathogen-tested plant material in sites throughout the United States. To carry 

out the program, NCPN consults with a wide range of stakeholders including State departments 

of agriculture, land grant universities, and non-land grant colleges of agriculture. In fiscal year

(FY) 2024, universities, States, Federal agencies, and non-profit organizations in 14 States and 

Puerto Rico will carry out the selected projects. By working with these groups, USDA and its 

cooperators leverage and extend their abilities to protect, detect, and respond to plant pests and 

diseases at national, regional, and local levels.

Since 2009, USDA has supported about 337 NCPN projects and provided close to $88 million in 

funding for this PPA 7721 initiative. These projects focused on producing clean plants covering 

specialty crops such as fruit trees, grapes, hops, berries, citrus, sweet potato, and roses; and have 

advanced NCPN as a network through governance, planning, education/outreach, 

communications, economics, and quality management. In FY 2024, the PPA 7721 NCPN 

Program received 26 proposals requesting about $9.52 million in funding, during the twelveweek open period last summer. USDA is satisfying approximately 77 percent of the requested 

amounts for support. USDA appreciates all the proposals received and recognizes the great 

interest in carrying out work that helps protect U.S. agriculture and the environment from 

invasive plant pests and pathogens. 

Information for Cooperators

Congratulations on receiving funding approval for your project proposal under the NCPN 

Program! In this FY2024 Spending Plan, you will find the NCPN funding level by the project 

submission’s title and state. 

As a next step, USDA will contact you in the coming weeks to discuss procedures and next steps 

in the application process. All APHIS cooperative agreements are required to be processed and 

completed using the ezFedGrants system. PPA 7721 funding recipients must have an 

eAuthentication (eAuth) account with Level 2 access to use the system. For additional 

information, please reference the ezFedGrants user guide or visit the USDA’s ezFedGrants 

website. 
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Funding by State 

Arkansas

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Arkansas Berry Clean Plant Center Univ. of Arkansas, 

Fayetteville

$250,000

NCPN Arkansas Sweet Potato Clean Plant 

Center

Univ. of Arkansas at 

Pine Bluff

$83,000

 TOTAL $333,000 

California

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Foundation Plant Services Clean Plant 

Specialty Crop Program 

Multiple Crops

Univ. of California, 

Davis

$2,277,000

NCPN California Citrus Clean Plant Network Univ. of California, 

Riverside

$923,000

NCPN California Citrus Clean Plant Network USDA-ARS 

NCGRCD, Riverside

$102,000

NCPN NCPN System Wide Quality Plan Univ. of California, 

Riverside

$75,000

 TOTAL $3,377,000 

Florida

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Florida Citrus Clean Plant Program Florida Division of 

Plant Industry

$377,000

TOTAL $377,000 

Hawaii 

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Hawaii Sweet Potato Clean Plant 

Program

Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo $44,000

 TOTAL $44,000 

Louisiana

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Louisiana Sweet Potato Clean Plant 

Program 

Louisiana State Univ. at 

Baton Rouge 

$210,000

 TOTAL $210,000
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Maryland 

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Exotic Pathogens of Citrus Collection USDA-ARS, Beltsville $22,000

 TOTAL $22,000 

Mississippi

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Mississippi Sweet Potato Clean Plant 

Program 

Mississippi State Univ., 

Pontotoc 

$160,000

 TOTAL $160,000 

Missouri

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Midwest Grapes Clean Plant Center Missouri State Univ., 

Mountain Grove

$50,000

 TOTAL $50,000 

New York

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Eastern Grapes Clean Plant Center Cornell Univ. $156,448

NCPN NCPN Economics Working Group Cornell Univ. $110,000

TOTAL $266,448 

North Carolina 

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN North Carolina Clean Plant Center 

Multiple Crops

North Carolina State 

Univ.

$487,000

 TOTAL $487,000 

Oregon 

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Oregon Berry Clean Plant Center USDA-ARS, Corvallis $245,000

TOTAL $245,000
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Puerto Rico

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Puerto Rico Citrus Clean Plant 

Program 

Univ. of Puerto Rico, 

Juana Diaz

$22,315

 TOTAL $22,315 

South Carolina 

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Clemson Clean Plant Center Clemson Univ. $326,797

TOTAL $326,797 

Texas 

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Texas Roses Clean Plant Program Agri-Life Research 

Office,Texas A&M 

Univ., College Station

$23,000

NCPN Texas Citrus Clean Plant Program Texas A&M Univ. 

Kingsville Citrus Center

$150,000

TOTAL $173,000 

Washington 

Goal Title Cooperator Entity Funding Level

NCPN Clean Plant Center Northwest

Multiple Crops

Washington State 

Univ., Prosser 

$1,206,247

TOTAL $1,206,247