Florida Administrative Code › 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › 5B - Division of Plant Industry › Chapter 5B-2 - FLORIDA NURSERY STOCK AND CERTIFICATION FEE › Section 5B-2.010 - Special Inspection and Certification Fees

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Special inspection and certification
				services that may be provided by the division when requested by farmers,
				growers or other interested parties may include treatments, pest
				identifications, plant identifications, investigations, and regulatory
				activities not otherwise specifically provided for by chapter 581, F.S. The
				prescribed fees for these special inspections and certifications shall be as
				follows:
Type of Certification
Charge
Form
Inspection and state of origin certificate,
							 Phytosanitary export certificate, Phytosanitary reexport certificate, Post
							 entry quarantine site inspection.
Mileage1 and $50 minimum
							 per inspection2.
Other special
							 inspection2.
Temporary inspection
							 fee2.
Mileage1 and $50 minimum
							 per inspection2.
Follow-up Quarantine Inspections.
Mileage1 and $50 minimum
							 per inspection2.
No charge first inspection.
Phytosanitary export certificate noncommercial
							 (homeowner plants or homeowner plant products).
Mileage1 and $25 minimum
							 per inspection2.
Cut flower, cut fern.
$10 per acre per crop. Inspection plus
							 mileage1, $25 minimum per location.
Import inspection for commercial shipments of plants
							 or plant products.
Mileage1 and $50 per hour
							 per inspection from time of arrival to departure, $50 minimum per
							 location.
Growing season field inspection of bulbs, seed,
							 vegetable and tobacco transplants.
$10 per acre per inspection plus
							 mileage1, $25 minimum per location.
Vegetable transplants, aquatic and annual (bedding)
							 plants (greenhouse, hotbeds, or other growing units).
Mileage1 and $25 per 10,
							 000 square feet of growing unit space, $25 minimum per location and $10 for
							 each 1000 square feet of approved growing space per inspection.
Nematode certification.
Mileage1 and $50 per
							 sample.
FDACS-08270, Consolidation Declaration For Florida
							 Nursery Stock Destined To Texas Or Louisiana, Revised 11/15.
FDACS-08472, Revised 11/15, Texas/Louisiana Stock
							 Dealer Compliance Agreement.
Botany diagnostic fee.
$55 per sample.
FDACS 08078, Botany Specimen Report, Revised
							 11/15.
Entomology diagnostic fee.
$55 per sample.
FDACS 08400, Specimen Submission Form, Revised
							 11/15.
Plant Pathology diagnostic fee.
$55 per sample.
FDACS 08429, Plant Pathology Specimen Report, Revised
							 11/15.
Molecular diagnostic fee.
$55 per sample.
FDACS 08078, Botany Specimen Report, Revised
							 11/15.
FDACS 08400 Specimen Submission Form, Revised
							 11/15.
FDACS 08429, Plant Pathology Specimen Report, Revised
							 11/15.
FDACS 08077, Nematode Report, Revised 11/15.
Lettuce mosaic samples.
$90 per sample ($180 if found positive).
FDACS 08429, Plant Pathology Specimen Report, Revised
							 11/15.
Nematology diagnostic fee.
$55 per sample.
FDACS-08077, Nematode Report, Revised 11/15.
Caribbean fruit fly protocol participation.
Up to $4.00 per acre per month.
FDACS-08161, Caribbean Fruit Fly Protocol Program
							 Application For Participation, Revised 11/15.
FDACS-08233, Caribbean Fruit Fly Certification
							 Program-Establishment Of McPhail Traps, Revised 11/15.
Grades and Standards regrading inspections.
Mileage1 and $50 per hour
							 per inspector from time of arrival to departure, $50 minimum per
							 inspection2.
Permits for importing regulated organisms.
$12.50 per species not to exceed $50 per
							 permit.
FDACS-08208, Application And Permit To Move Organisms
							 Regulated By The State Of Florida, Revised 1/13, incorporated by reference in
							 Rule 5B-57.004, F.A.C.
(2)
				Governmental agencies requesting one of the above services for research
				purposes may be exempt from fees if the following criteria is met:
(a) Department staff time does not exceed two
				hours of an eight-hour work day; and,
(b) Department staff is not required to
				travel greater than fifty miles from employee headquarters.
1Mileage shall be based on the
				  prevailing state mileage rate.
2There shall be a $15 charge for
				  each additional phytosanitary export, phytosanitary reexport, inspection and
				  state of origin, post entry quarantine site inspection and other applicable
				  special inspection certificates written at the same location for the same
				  destination provided no inspection was
				  made.