As responses from the remaining States are received, they will be added to make this list as complete as possible. Each request for a permit is evaluated individually. The decision to grant or deny a permit is made only after consultation with Federal, State, or private specialists. The applicant must comply with the conditions specified in the permit. Safeguards listed in the permit may specify method of packaging and how material is to be shipped, handled, treated, confined, used, and inactivated or destroyed.
Instructions vary depending upon pest species, origin, and destination of shipment.
Any deviation from the requirements in the permit must have prior approval from the issuing office. Permits are also required to import or to move interstate or intrastate certain animal pathogens and vectors. All pests must be shipped in sturdy, escape-proof containers. Upon receipt of pests, all packing material media, substrate, soil and shipping containers shall be sterilized or destroyed immediately after removing pests. Pest shall be kept only within the laboratory or designated area at the permittee's address.