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"Certification" means that the lot of seed potatoes was inspected and meets the requirements of this chapter.
"Cull" means any lot of potatoes rejected for certification for any reason.
"Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or his/her duly appointed representative.
"Disease tested" means tested for and found free of all of the following diseases: Potato virus A (PVA), potato virus M (PVM), potato virus S (PVS), potato virus X (PVX), potato virus Y (PVY), potato leafroll virus (PLRV), potato mop top virus (PMTV), potato spindle tuber viroid (spindle tuber), Erwinia carotovora ssp. carotovora (soft rot), Erwinia carotovora ssp. atroseptica (black leg) and Clavibacter michiganense spp. sepedonicus (ring rot).
"ELISA testing" means laboratory testing by enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay or other equivalent methodologies.
"Micropropagated" means potato stock propagated using aseptic laboratory techniques and culture media to promote plant tissue growth.
"Microtubers" means tubers produced in vitro by a micropropagated plant or plantlet.
"Minitubers" means tubers produced under controlled greenhouse conditions.
"Nematode" means plant parasitic nematodes capable of infesting potatoes, including but not limited to the genus Meloidogyne.
"Nuclear stock" means plantlets, microtubers, minitubers, or seed potatoes produced from prenuclear stock, and grown in the field for the first time.
"Plot" means a seed potato planting that is 0.25 acre or less in size.
"Powdery scab" means the disease caused by the fungus Spongospora subterranea.
"Prenuclear" means micropropagated plants or tubers and plants or minitubers produced in a greenhouse.
"Quarantine pest" means a pest of potential economic importance and not yet present in the state, or present but not widely distributed and being officially controlled.
"Recertification" means the process of certifying a seed lot that was certified the previous year.
"Rogue" means removing diseased or undesirable plants, including all associated plant parts, from a seed potato field.
"Seed lot" means a field, in whole or in part, or a group of fields producing seed potatoes, or the potato tubers harvested from a seed potato field.
"Seed potato farm" means a separate seed potato enterprise, including all land, equipment, storages and all facilities used to produce only certified seed potatoes.
"Seed potatoes" means vegetatively propagated tubers used for potato production.
"Seed source" means seed potatoes produced by an individual seed potato farm within a particular seed production area.
"Trace" means a barely perceivable indication of plant disease that amounts to less than 0.001 percent of sample.
"Tolerance" means the maximum acceptable percentage of potato plants or tubers that is diseased, infected by plant pests, defective or off-type based on visual inspection or laboratory testing by the director or other authorized person.
"Unit method" means a method of planting in which cut seed pieces from one tuber are dropped consecutively in a row, or in which all tubers from one plant are dropped consecutively in a row.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.015 and chapter 34.05 RCW. WSR 15-01-042, § 16-324-361, filed 12/9/14, effective 1/9/15; WSR 13-12-014, § 16-324-361, filed 5/24/13, effective 6/24/13. Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.14 and 34.05 RCW. WSR 07-11-010, § 16-324-361, filed 5/3/07, effective 6/3/07. Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 02-12-010, § 16-324-361, filed 5/23/02, effective 6/23/02; WSR 00-20-070, § 16-324-361, filed 10/3/00, effective 11/3/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.030. WSR 97-11-028, § 16-324-361, filed 5/14/97, effective 6/14/97.]
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Certified seed potato stock—Fees.
(1) The seed potato certification fee is twenty-nine dollars per acre or fraction of an acre.
(2) The certification fee for a field plot is twenty dollars per application.
(3) The department may assess additional fees for time and mileage pursuant to chapter 16-470 WAC.
(4) Growers must submit a minimum of fifty percent of the total certification fees with the applications.
(5) Final payment of certification fees is due and payable November 1 of each year.
(6) For the purpose of fee assessment, acreage may be adjusted by no more than ten percent prior to the first field inspection. The department will refund certification fees, if a written withdrawal notice is received by the department prior to the first field inspection.
(7) Growers are not required to pay the final half of the certification fee on lots rejected or withdrawn before the second inspection.
(8) The department will deny certification to any applicant who fails to pay fees when due.
(9) The department will not accept applications from any grower owing the department for previous fees.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 00-20-070, § 16-324-381, filed 10/3/00, effective 11/3/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.030. WSR 97-11-028, § 16-324-381, filed 5/14/97, effective 6/14/97.]
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(1) All seed potatoes entered for certification are classified on the basis of production phases as follows:
(a) Prenuclear (PN) - Micropropagated potatoes or seed potatoes grown in a greenhouse or screenhouse under sanitary conditions free of insects, weeds that can harbor potato diseases or other sources of disease contamination.
(b) Nuclear (N) - First field production year.
(c) Generation 1 (G1) - Second field production year.
(d) Generation 2 (G2) - Third field production year.
(e) Generation 3 (G3) - Fourth field production year.
(f) Generation 4 (G4) - Fifth field production year.
(g) Generation 5 (G5) - Sixth field production year.
(2) If a seed lot fails to meet the standards established in this chapter for its class, then it will be reclassified to the earliest generation for which it meets established standards.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 00-20-070, § 16-324-382, filed 10/3/00, effective 11/3/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.030. WSR 97-11-028, § 16-324-382, filed 5/14/97, effective 6/14/97.]
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(1) All field locations for nuclear and generation 1 production must have prior approval from the department.
(3) When ring rot is found in a field planted with more than one lot of seed potatoes, the department will reject the entire field.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.015 and chapter 34.05 RCW. WSR 13-12-014, § 16-324-392, filed 5/24/13, effective 6/24/13. Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.14 and 34.05 RCW. WSR 07-11-010, § 16-324-392, filed 5/3/07, effective 6/3/07. Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 00-20-070, § 16-324-392, filed 10/3/00, effective 11/3/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.030. WSR 97-11-028, § 16-324-392, filed 5/14/97, effective 6/14/97.]
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(1) Chemicals used in the sanitation of equipment should be those recommended by the Pacific Northwest Plant Disease Management Handbook. This handbook is available online at:http://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/. Vector control must be maintained throughout the growing season as recommended by the Pacific Northwest Insect Management Handbook. This handbook is available online at: http://pnwpest.org/pnw/insects/.
(2) Seed stocks entered for certification should be planted and harvested prior to handling any other seed stock. The earliest generation should be handled prior to later generations within the program.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.015 and chapter 34.05 RCW. WSR 13-12-014, § 16-324-396, filed 5/24/13, effective 6/24/13. Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.14 and 34.05 RCW. WSR 07-11-010, § 16-324-396, filed 5/3/07, effective 6/3/07. Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 00-20-070, § 16-324-396, filed 10/3/00, effective 11/3/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.030. WSR 97-11-028, § 16-324-396, filed 5/14/97, effective 6/14/97.]
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(1) Compliance with a 0.0% tolerance is not intended, nor should it be construed, to mean that the lot inspected is free from the disease. It means that the disease was not detected during visual inspections of the seed lot.
(2) First and second field inspection tolerances, expressed as percentages.
Total visible virus
Phytoplasmas (including Candidatus liberibacter)
Spindle tuber viroid and other quarantined pests
*Tolerance for black leg does not apply to G5.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.015 and chapter 34.05 RCW. WSR 15-01-042, § 16-324-398, filed 12/9/14, effective 1/9/15; WSR 13-12-014, § 16-324-398, filed 5/24/13, effective 6/24/13. Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.13, 15.14 and 34.05 RCW. WSR 04-12-026, § 16-324-398, filed 5/26/04, effective 6/26/04. Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 02-12-010, § 16-324-398, filed 5/23/02, effective 6/23/02; WSR 00-20-070, § 16-324-398, filed 10/3/00, effective 11/3/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.030. WSR 97-11-028, § 16-324-398, filed 5/14/97, effective 6/14/97.]
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(1) The department will visually inspect each seed lot at least two times during the growing season. The department may make additional inspections if the department deems it necessary.
(2) The department will reject all seed lots that do not comply with minimum field inspection standards at the time of inspection.
(3) Growers must notify the department of unusual field conditions, which may cause premature dying from any cause prior to the final reading of the field.
(4) Postharvest testing is required for any seed lot with a field condition preventing adequate field evaluation at the time of the first field inspection.
(5) If the department is unable to perform the final field inspection of a seed potato lot for any reason at least one of the following actions will be taken:
(a) The seed lot will be denied certification;
(b) The seed lot will be denied recertification; and/or
(c) The lot must be postharvest tested and found free of ring rot.
(6) The department will reject any seed lot in which ring rot is detected and will conduct additional inspections on all of the grower's remaining seed lots. The department will not recertify any seed lot associated with or planted after the rejected lot. The department will submit samples of ring rot detected during field inspections to an approved laboratory for confirmation.
(7) The department may require a postharvest test and withhold certification pending results of the postharvest test on seed potato lots exposed to any chemical that causes tuber-borne injury. Any seed potato lot showing five percent or greater tuber-borne chemical damage in the postharvest test will be rejected for certification.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 00-20-070, § 16-324-399, filed 10/3/00, effective 11/3/00.]
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TOLERANCE TABLE: PERCENT DISEASE
(includes ELISA for PVY)
[Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.015 and chapter 34.05 RCW. WSR 13-12-014, § 16-324-420, filed 5/24/13, effective 6/24/13. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.14.030. WSR 97-11-028, § 16-324-420, filed 5/14/97, effective 6/14/97. Statutory Authority: Chapters 34.05 and 15.14 RCW. WSR 92-22-017 (Order 4014), § 16-324-420, filed 10/22/92, effective 11/22/92. Statutory Authority: Chapter 15.14 RCW. WSR 78-12-034 (Order 1587), § 16-324-420, filed 11/21/78; Order 1199, § 16-324-420, filed 5/5/71, effective 6/7/71.]
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