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List of Pending American Viticultural Areas Petitions
The following is a listing of petitions to establish American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) that TTB has accepted as perfected in accordance with Part 9 of TTB regulations. "Accepted as perfected" means that the petition meets the requirements of Part 9, but it is not a guarantee that TTB will proceed with rulemaking.
A petitioned-for AVA will be removed from this list once a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) publishes in the Federal Register, and a rulemaking docket containing a copy of the petition and the NPRM will be available for public viewing and comment on Regulations.gov, at http://www.regulations.gov. For a listing of AVA-related rulemaking documents that are currently open for public comment, visit our wine rulemaking page at http://www.ttb.gov/wine/wine-rulemaking.shtml.
Copies of petitions and related exhibits for any of the petitioned-for AVAs in the list below are available upon submission of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. For information on submitting a FOIA request, visit our FOIA web page at http://www.ttb.gov/foia/make_request-foia.shtml.
For information on submitting a petition to establish a new AVA, visit our AVA web page at http://www.ttb.gov/wine/ava.shtml. You can also see How to Prepare an American Viticultural Area Petition (AVA Manual)
AVA Name |
State(s) |
County |
Petitioner |
Date Accepted as Perfected |
11 sub-AVAs within the established Paso Robles AVA
|
CA |
San Luis Obispo |
Paso Robles AVA Committee (PRAVAC) |
4/30/07 |
Eagle Peak Mendocino County/ Realignment of established Redwood Valley and Mendocino AVAs |
CA |
Mendocino |
Ralph and Marie Carter |
5/12/10 |
Big Valley District-Lake County |
CA |
Lake |
Terry Dereniuk |
1/30/12 |
Kelsey Bench-Lake County |
CA |
Lake |
Terry Dereniuk |
1/30/12 |
Moon Mountain District Sonoma County |
CA |
Sonoma |
Patrick Shabram |
6/27/12 |
Malibu Coast |
CA |
Los Angeles, Ventura |
Ralph Jens Carter |
8/8/12 |
Upper Hiwassee Highlands |
NC/GA |
Cherokee and Clay (NC); Towns, Union, and Fannin (GA) |
Eric Carlson |
10/24/12 |
Manton Valley |
CA |
Shasta, Tehama |
Mark Livingston |
10/24/12 |
The Rocks of Milton-Freewater |
OR |
Umatilla |
Kevin R. Pogue |
1/17/13 |
Expansion of the Fair Play viticultural area |
CA |
El Dorado |
Randy Rossi |
2/1/13 |
| Page last reviewed/updated: 02/11/2013 |
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