Florida Administrative Code › 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › 5B - Division of Plant Industry › Chapter 5B-63 - CITRUS HEALTH RESPONSE PROGRAM › Section 5B-63.001 - Citrus Health Response Program

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
				Definitions. For the purpose of this rule, the definitions in Section
				581.011, F.S., and the following
				definitions shall apply:
(a) "Abandoned
				grove" means a commercial citrus grove without production, care, or commercial
				harvesting activities, or has minimal or no production value, or is no longer
				economically viable as a commercial citrus grove.
(b) "Abandoned Grove Initiative" means a
				program developed to encourage removal of abandoned groves by offering growers
				property tax abatement as an incentive to remove their abandoned
				groves.
(c) "Approved
				decontaminants" means products verified as effective by the Department and
				capable of decontaminating equipment and personnel of citrus black spot, citrus
				canker, or other organisms of regulatory significance.
(d) "Approved landfill" means a facility
				permitted and designated as Class I by the Florida Department of Environmental
				Protection and designed for the disposal of waste to include citrus plant
				material that may be infected or contaminated by any organisms of regulatory
				significance.
(e) "Asian citrus
				psyllid" means the insect known as the Asian citrus psyllid,
Diaphorina
				citri
Kuwayama
,
classified in the order Homoptera,
				family Psyllidae, and all of its life stages.
(f) "Budwood facility or citrus nursery"
				means a geographically distinct location where citrus nursery stock is produced
				for wholesale or retail sale, is held for movement to another location or is
				used within a citrus grove, or where citrus trees are maintained as sources of
				budwood or seed in order to propagate citrus nursery stock.
(g) "Caretaker" means a person or company
				that has been contracted to provide production and/or management services of a
				commercial citrus grove.
(h)
				"Citrus" means all plants, plant parts, and plant products, including seed and
				fruit, of all genera species, and varieties of the Rutaceous subfamilies
				Aurantiodeae, Rutoideae, and Toddalioidae, unless specifically excluded by the
				rules of the Department.
(i)
				"Citrus black spot" means a fungal disease of citrus incited by the fungal
				organism
Phyllosticta citricarpa
(formally known as
Guigardia citricarpa
).
(j) "Citrus canker" means a bacterial disease
				of citrus incited by the organism
Xanthomonas citri
subsp.
citri
(formerly known as
Xanthomonas
				axonopodis
pv.
citri
), Asian strain and
Xanthomonas citri
pv.
aurantifolii.
(k) "Citrus culls" means blemished or
				otherwise non-marketable fruit.
(l)
				"Citrus greening" means a phloem-limited bacterial disease of citrus and citrus
				relatives incited by the organism
Candidatus
Liberibacter
				asiaticus,
Candidatus
Liberibacter americanus, and
Candidatus
Liberibacter africanus (also known as
				huanglongbing, yellow dragon disease, or yellow shoot disease).
(m) "Citrus Health Response Program (CHRP)"
				means the successor program to the Citrus Canker Eradication Program, which is
				used to sustain the citrus industry, to maintain growers' continued access to
				export markets, and to safeguard the other citrus producing areas against
				organisms of regulatory significance.
(n) "Commercial citrus grove" means a solid
				set planting of 40 or more citrus trees, or any citrus planting from which
				fruit is marketed.
(o) "Exposed"
				means determined by the Department to likely harbor citrus black spot or citrus
				canker bacteria, but not expressing visible symptoms or determined by the
				Department to likely harbor citrus greening bacteria or any other organism of
				regulatory significance because of proximity to infected plants or infected
				vectors of organisms of regulatory significance.
(p) "Foundation tree" means a citrus tree
				owned and maintained by the Department in accordance with Rule
				5B-62.014, F.A.C., to provide a
				source of budwood to nurseries, primarily for establishing scion and increase
				trees.
(q) "Infected" means citrus
				trees harboring any organisms of regulatory significance as confirmed by
				diagnostic tests conducted in laboratories approved by the Department or the
				USDA.
(r) "Multi-block" means a
				solid set planting of citrus trees that have been surveyed and mapped by the
				Citrus Health Response Program, is identified by a unique number, and is under
				compliance per the stipulation outlined in the Grower/Caretaker Compliance
				Agreement, FDACS-08316, Rev. 04/22.
(s) "Regulated articles" means any article
				capable of transporting or harboring any organisms of regulatory
				significance.
(t) "Regulatory
				significance" means the same as the term 'plant pest' which is defined in
				Section 581.011(26),
				F.S., as any living stage of any insects, mites, nematodes, slugs, snails,
				protozoa, or other invertebrate animals, bacteria, fungi, other parasitic
				plants or their reproductive parts, or viruses, or any organisms similar to or
				allied with any of the foregoing, including any genetically engineered
				organisms, or any infectious substances which can directly or indirectly injure
				or cause disease or damage in any plants or plant parts or any processed,
				manufactured, or other plant products.