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Safeguarding American Plant Resources

A Stakeholder Review of the APHIS-PPQ Safeguarding System

• Main Report
• Report Summary
• Appendices
• PPQ Safeguarding Study

National Plant Board
The National Plant Board is a non-profit organization of the plant pest regulatory agencies of each of the states and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.  Member agencies must be members in good standing of the regional plant board in which their state or commonwealth is located.

Current Award Winners and Honorable Mentions

2007

• Deputy Administrator's Safeguarding Award
  
  • Cactoblastis
  • Red Palm Mite
    
    
• Outstanding Achievement Award
  • CBP Agriculture Specialist Alisha Shumaker
  • Cooperative Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Program
    
    
• Promising Practices Award: Q56 and EAB Program Staff
  • Q56 Staff
  • Cooperative Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Program Clinics
    
    
• Honorable Mentions:
  
  • Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance (SITC) National Information, Communication and Activity System (NICAS) Development and Implementation Team
  • Treatment Quality Assurance Unit
  • Eastern Plant Board
  • Customs and Border Protection, Seattle Field Office and Port of Blaine

Last Modified: June 20, 2008

• Overview
• Plant Pest Program Information
  
• Pest Detection
• Pest Identification
• Plant Import and Export
• Permits
• Crop Biosecurity and Emergency Response
• Spotlights for PPQ

• Learn About and Access the FAVIR Database
• Learn About the Special Needs Request Rule
• View PPQ electronic manuals
• Import a plant, plant product, or soil into the U.S. (PERMIT)
• Transit a plant, plant product, or soil through the U.S.
• Join the PPQ Stakeholder Registry
• Bring a plant pest or biological control organism into the U.S.
• Export a plant or plant product
• Identify a pest
• View environmental documents
• Learn about PPQ
• View the PPQ Organization Structure
  
• Learn about the Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST)
• Learn about the New Pest Advisory Group (NPAG)
• View the MOA between DHS and USDA
• View the Final Report and Action Plans of the APHIS-CBP Joint Task Force on Improved Agriculture Inspection
• View the Declaration requirements of the Lacey Act
• Locate my State Plant Health Director
• View the PPQ Strategic Plans
• Work for PPQ

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