Light brown apple moth: pending rulemaking
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USDA/APHIS RIN: 0579-AC71 Publication ID: Fall 2009
Title: Light Brown Apple Moth Quarantine
Abstract: We are quarantining 10 counties in California and the entire State of Hawaii because of the light brown apple moth and restricting the interstate
movement of regulated articles from the quarantined areas. This action is necessary on an emergency basis to prevent the spread of the light brown apple moth
into noninfested areas of the United States.
Agency: Department of Agriculture(USDA) Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage
Major: No Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 7 CFR 301 (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: 7 USC 7701 to 7772; 7 USC 7781 to 7786
Legal Deadline: None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Interim Final Rule 12/00/2009
Interim Final Rule Comment Period End 02/00/2010
Additional Information: Additional information about APHIS and its programs is available on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes Government Levels Affected: Local, State
Small Entities Affected: Businesses Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: Yes
Agency Contact:
Deborah McPartlan
Staff Officer, Emergency and Domestic Programs, PPQ
Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
4700 River Road, Unit 134,
Riverdale, MD 20737-1236
Phone:301 734-5356
posted by Tom Karst @ 1:18 AM
1 Comments:
NO DAMAGE FROM LBAM.
After somewhere between four and 50 years in California, the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) has done NO DAMAGE. Check the LBAM Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) on the CDFA's website Chapter # 3, pages 3-20 and 3-21 - NO DAMAGE. The reports of damage in the media are false.
LBAM has been in Hawaii over 100 years and NO DAMAGE.
Check with the Agriculture Commissioner's office where media reports have publicized California damage and there is NO DOCUMENTATION of DAMAGE. Damage is stated and repeated over and over in the press, but never occurred.
The USDA has even confirmed that DNA testing for LBAM is not certain because there are still many California tortricidae moths whose DNA have not been sequenced, so the reference database is incomplete. And probable LBAM are showing up only as one in 50 to one in 200 of the other native moths that are suspect for doing any damage at all.
LBAM has so much publicity because of the story of its "Invasion" that everything gets attributed to LBAM, but in fact, LBAM has been in California for many decades and no damage was attributed to it until CDFA flooded the media with false information, false fear and outright lies about LBAM's biology, capability and damage.
WHY IS CDFA DOING THIS?
If CDFA, with the assistance of USDA, can initiate and maintain the LBAM eradication program for the average time of their other insect eradication programs, they can more than double their annual general fund budget every year for 30 years and bring approximately $3 billion ADDITIONAL taxpayer dollars into their agency. The overwhelming majority of those funds will end up in service and pesticide contracts going to privileged insider chemical companies, intimately connected to top CDFA Management.
The next time you see any tortricidae moth activity of any kind, is it really LBAM or is it
Omnivorous leafroller: Platynota sultana
Orange tortrix: Argyrotaenia franciscana
Apple Pandemis: Pandemis pyrusana
Fruittree Leafroller: Archips argyrospila
Obliquebanded Leafroller: Choristoneura rosaceana
…all native in California and dozens more.
The only real damage related to LBAM are the quarantines, surprise inspections and the unnecessary and expensive pesticides that CDFA is forcing onto growers and into populated communities.
When CDFA tasks themselves with "Keeping the Sky from falling," they need to look like they are doing something important/legitimate so that the money they take (steal from taxpayers) is not challenged.
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