Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA § 319.56–50 § 319.56–50 Hass avocados from Peru. requirements of paragraph (f) of this Fresh Hass variety avocados (Persea section. americana P. Mill.) may be imported (3) If the NPPO of Peru finds that a into the continental United States place of production or packinghouse is from Peru only under the conditions not complying with the requirements described in this section. These condi- of this section, no fruit from the place tions are designed to prevent the intro- of production or packinghouse will be duction of the following quarantine eligible for export to the United States pests: Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiede- until APHIS and the NPPO of Peru mann), the South American fruit fly; conduct an investigation and appro- Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), the priate remedial actions have been im- Mediterranean fruit fly; Coccus viridis plemented. (Green), the green scale; Ferrisia (4) The NPPO of Peru must retain all malvastra (McDaniel), a mealybug; and forms and documents related to export Stenoma catenifer Walsingham, the avo- program activities in places of produc- cado seed moth. tion and packinghouses for at least 1 (a) General requirements. (1) The na- year and, as requested, provide them to tional plant protection organization APHIS for review. (NPPO) of Peru must provide a (c) Grove sanitation. Avocado fruit workplan to APHIS that details the ac- that has fallen from the trees must be tivities that the NPPO of Peru will, removed from each place of production subject to APHIS’ approval of the at least once every 7 days, starting 2 workplan, carry out to meet the re- months before harvest and continuing quirements of this section. The NPPO to the end of harvest. Fallen avocado of Peru must also establish a trust fruit may not be included in field con- fund in accordance with § 319.56–6. tainers of fruit brought to the packing- (2) The avocados must be grown at house to be packed for export. places of production that are registered (d) Surveys for S. catenifer. (1) Peru- with the NPPO of Peru and that meet vian departamentos in which avocados the requirements of this section. are grown for export to the United (3) The avocados must be packed for States must be surveyed by the NPPO export to the United States in packing- of Peru at least once annually, no more houses that are registered with the than 2 months before harvest begins, NPPO of Peru and that meet the re- and found to be free from infestation quirements of this section. by S. catenifer. APHIS must approve (4) Avocados from Peru may be im- the survey protocol used to determine ported in commercial consignments and maintain pest-free status and the only. actions to be performed if S. catenifer is (b) Monitoring and oversight. (1) The detected. Surveys must include rep- NPPO of Peru must visit and inspect resentative areas from all parts of each registered places of production month- registered place of production in each ly, starting at least 2 months before departamento. The NPPO of Peru must harvest and continuing until the end of cut and inspect a biometric sample of the shipping season, to verify that the fruit at a rate determined by APHIS. growers are complying with the re- Fruit sampled must be either from the quirements of paragraphs (c) and (e) of upper half of the tree or from the this section and follow pest control ground. Sampled fruit must be cut and guidelines, when necessary, to reduce examined for the presence of eggs and quarantine pest populations. Any per- larvae of S. catenifer in the pulp or seed sonnel conducting trapping and pest and for the presence of eggs in the ped- surveys under paragraph (d) of this sec- icel. tion must be trained and supervised by (2) If one or more S. catenifer is de- the NPPO of Peru. APHIS may monitor tected in the annual survey, or during the places of production if necessary. any other monitoring or inspection ac- (2) In addition to conducting fruit in- tivity, the affected place of production spections at the packinghouses, the will be immediately suspended from NPPO of Peru must monitor packing- the export program until appropriate house operations to verify that the measures to reestablish pest freedom, packinghouses are complying with the agreed upon by the NPPO of Peru and 353 VerDate Mar<15>2010 09:33 Feb 15, 2013 Jkt 229016 PO 00000 Frm 00363 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:\SGML\229016.XXX 229016 rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with CFR § 319.56–51 7 CFR Ch. III (1–1–13 Edition) APHIS, have been taken. The NPPO of registration number of the place of pro- Peru must keep records of S. catenifer duction at which the avocados were detections for each orchard, update the grown and must identify the packing records each time the orchards are sur- shed or sheds in which the fruit was veyed, and make the records available processed and packed. This identifica- to APHIS inspectors upon request. The tion must be maintained until the fruit records must be maintained for at least is released for entry into the United 1 year after the beginning of the har- States. vest. (g) NPPO of Peru inspection. Fol- (e) Harvesting requirements. Harvested lowing any post-harvest processing, in- avocados must be placed in field car- spectors from the NPPO of Peru must tons or containers that are marked inspect a biometric sample of fruit with the official registration number of from each place of production at a rate the place of production. The place of to be determined by APHIS. The in- production where the avocados were spectors must visually inspect for the grown must remain identifiable when quarantine pests listed in the introduc- the fruit leaves the grove, at the pack- tory text of this section and must cut inghouse, and throughout the export fruit to inspect for S. catenifer. If any process. The fruit must be moved to a quarantine pests are detected in this registered packinghouse within 3 hours inspection, the place of production of harvest or must be protected from where the infested avocados were fruit fly infestation until moved. The grown will immediately be suspended fruit must be safeguarded by an insect- from the export program until an in- proof screen or plastic tarpaulin while vestigation has been conducted by in transit to the packinghouse and APHIS and the NPPO of Peru and ap- while awaiting packing. propriate mitigations have been imple- (f) Packinghouse requirements. (1) Dur- mented. ing the time registered packinghouses (h) Phytosanitary certificate. Each con- are in use for packing avocados for ex- signment of Hass avocados imported port to the United States, the packing- from Peru into the United States must houses may only accept avocados that be accompanied by a phytosanitary are from registered places of produc- certificate issued by the NPPO of Peru tion and that are produced in accord- with an additional declaration stating ance with the requirements of this sec- that the avocados in the consignment tion. were grown, packed, and inspected and (2) Avocados must be packed within found to be free of pests in accordance 24 hours of harvest in an insect-exclu- with the requirements of 7 CFR 319.56– sionary packinghouse. All openings to 50. the outside of the packinghouse must be covered by screening with openings (Approved by the Office of Management and of not more than 1.6 mm or by some Budget under control number 0579–0355) other barrier that prevents pests from [75 FR 11, Jan. 4, 2010, as amended at 76 FR entering. The packinghouse must have 43807, July 22, 2011] double doors at the entrance to the fa- cility and at the interior entrance to § 319.56–51 Shepherd’s purse with the area where the avocados are roots from the Republic of Korea. packed. Shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa- (3) Before packing, all avocados must pastoris (L.) Medick) with roots from be cleaned of all plant debris. the Republic of Korea may be imported (4) Fruit must be packed in insect- only under the following conditions: proof packaging, or covered with in- (a) The shepherd’s purse with roots sect-proof mesh or a plastic tarpaulin, must be grown in a pest-free place of for transport to the United States. production that is registered with the These safeguards must remain intact national plant protection organization until arrival in the United States. (NPPO) of the Republic of Korea. (5) Shipping documents accom- Fields must be certified free of the panying consignments of avocados quarantine nematodes Hemicycliophora from Peru that are exported to the koreana, Paratylenchus pandus, United States must include the official Rotylenchus orientalis, and Rotylenchus 354 VerDate Mar<15>2010 09:33 Feb 15, 2013 Jkt 229016 PO 00000 Frm 00364 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:\SGML\229016.XXX 229016 rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with CFR.