USDA/APHIS National Plant Board Federally Recognized State 

Managed Phytosanitary Program Petition Worksheet 

Scientific Name: 

Order/Family: 

Common Name(s): 

Synonym(s): 

Domestic distribution (may collaborate with PPQ on this section): 

Provide a list of states where your pest occurs in states in the United States. Use the IPPC 

definition of establishment, which is: “Perpetuation, for the foreseeable future, of a pest within 

an area after entry [FAO, 1990; revised FAO, 1995; IPPC, 1997; formerly established].” 

Provide references. 

Potential pathways of introduction (may collaborate with PPQ on this section): 

Provide information on any means (e.g., importation of a host, interstate trade, smuggling, 

natural spread, a hurricane) that would allow the continued introduction of the pest into the 

State, or further facilitate the pest’s introduction to the State. 

Provide references. 

Foreign Pathway (material intercepted as general or permit cargo) 

Host Imported as Origin Quantity Destination 

State 

Consumption 

or Propagation 

Domestic Pathway 

Host Imported as State of Origin Notations 

Data to determine federal inspection equivalence 

Does a phytosanitary certificate requirement exist, which exceeds a 1-2% port of entry 

inspection rate? 

If not, provide evidence of interstate inspections to equal or exceed 1-2% 

Inspection rates 

Infested States # Shipments 

Host 1 # Inspections # Shipments 

Host 2, etc. # Inspections Total # 

Inspections 

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Potential economic/environmental impacts (may collaborate with PPQ on this section): 

Provide a list of hosts that are of importance to your State. 

Describe the potential economic and/or environmental impacts as they apply to your state, 

including the economic value of impacted crops and host acreage. Check the National Agricultural 

Statistics Service for the latest U.S. value of production. 

Consider the following questions for economic impact: 

Is the pest likely to attack federally listed threatened or endangered plants? Check the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service’s Threatened and Endangered Species System (TESS). 

Is the pest likely to reduce or eliminate a native plant that plays a major role in maintaining 

or defining a native ecosystem (i.e., a keystone species)? Refer to ISPM No. 5 Supplement 

No. 2 of the IPPC Glossary of Phytosanitary Terms (Attachment 1) and section 2.3 of ISPM 

No. 11 (Attachment 2) for further guidance. 

Provide references. 

Host Crop Acreage Value 

Regulatory Program Workplan: This section will be incorporated into Appendix A of the 

Cooperative Arrangement between APHIS and the your State upon recognition of your petition. 

Special instructions for multi-state petitions: It is necessary that one harmonized workplan be 

submitted that all participating states will follow as minimum. 

Describe the phytosanitary requirements, interstate inspection procedures, surveillance and 

control methods or other related actions that will be used in your state regulatory program. 

Describe quality assurance activities that support the state phytosanitary requirements or 

regulations. 

Describe your response plan should the pest be detected. 

APHIS does not confer any authority under the Plant Protection Act not specifically outlined in 

the Cooperative Arrangement and is not conferring authority under any other statute 

administered by APHIS, including the authority to establish and collect fees. Indicate your 

source of funding to support these activities. 

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Workplan1 

Exterior Quarantine 

 Cite State statute and summarize 

Interstate Inspection 

 Phyto requirements 

 Audit protocol 

 Inspection protocol 

 Inspection sites: entry points, fields, distributions centers, etc. 

 Quality Assurance activity 

Surveillance 

Traps Field/Commodity Inspections Other 

 Response plan if pest is detected 

Annual Reporting: Summary of activities/results 

(e.g. number of interstate shipments inspected; number of interstate shipments mitigated for the pest; what mitigation 

was used. Examples for Surveillance: number traps set, number traps set in counties bordering infested areas, number 

visual inspections, results) 

For mulit-state petitions, compose one unified workplan outlining minimum activities - e.g. for Exterior Quarantine - All States 

require treatment and/or certification of regulated hosts, in addition to the following requirements and regulation of host material. 

State/local/Tribal phytosanitary regulations: 

Provide a copy of the State/local/Tribal mandatory quarantine regulations associated with pest 

management programs, testing protocols (if applicable), and other related actions recently taken 

to maintain pest freedom or contain pest distribution for the specific pest in this FRSMP 

petition. 

If no State/local/Tribal regulations are currently in place, what steps are being taken to establish 

State-based regulations? 

Funding statement: Indicate your source of funding for program activities. 

Author(s): Type the names of all authors, contact information such as phone number and email, and 

their affiliation. 

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