PERMANENT RULES
Purpose: This rule-making order amends WAC 16-470-105 Area under order for apple maggot -- Pest free area -- Quarantine areas, by changing the boundaries of the existing area under quarantine for apple maggot to (1) add a portion of Yakima County; and (2) remove a portion of the existing area under quarantine in Kittitas County. In addition, this order amends WAC 16-470-103 Definitions, by eliminating the requirement that once an orchard is designated as "threatened with infestation" from apple maggot or plum curculio it must remain that way for two harvest seasons.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 16-470-103 and 16-470-105.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapters 17.24 and 34.05 RCW.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 05-05-099 on February 16, 2005.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: April 7, 2005.
Valoria H. Loveland
Director
OTS-7733.2
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 01-14-075, filed 7/3/01,
effective 8/3/01)
WAC 16-470-103
Definitions.
The following definitions
shall apply to WAC 16-470-101 through 16-470-130:
(1) "Established" means present in a country, state, county or other area, multiplying and expected to continue.
(2) "Threatened with infestation" means that any life
stage of apple maggot or plum curculio has been found within
one-half mile of an orchard or other production site,
including any portion of an orchard outside or beyond the
one-half mile area. Orchards or production sites in a
quarantined area, which are not surveyed by a plant protection
organization, are considered to be threatened with
infestation. An orchard or other production site will be
removed from threatened with infestation status, if control
measures are performed at the detection site, and survey by
the department shows no further detection(s) within the
one-half mile area around the orchard or other production site
throughout the subsequent full growing season. ((Once an
orchard or other production site meets the criteria for
threatened with infestation status, it must remain in that
status through at least two harvest seasons.))
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 17.24 RCW. 01-14-075, § 16-470-103, filed 7/3/01, effective 8/3/01.]
(a) Counties of Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia,
Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan,
Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla, and Whitman((, and
Yakima)).
(b) The portion of Kittitas County designated as follows:
Beginning at the ((northwest corner of Wanapum Dam and
Huntzinger Road; south along Huntzinger Road to the Yakima
County line; east to the Columbia River; north along the
Columbia River to the Wanapum Dam; and west)) point where
Interstate Highway No. 90 crosses longitude 120°31' W; thence
southerly to the Kittitas - Yakima County line; thence
easterly along said county line to the Columbia River; thence
northerly along said Columbia River to Interstate Highway No.
90; thence westerly along Interstate Highway No. 90 to the
point of beginning.
(c) The portions of Yakima County east of longitude 120°48' W.
(2) A quarantine for apple maggot is declared for the following portions of Washington state:
(a) Counties of Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Klickitat, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, Skagit, Skamania, Thurston, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom.
(b) The counties of Kittitas ((County)) and Yakima,
except for the areas designated in subsection (1)(b) and (c)
of this section.
(3) A quarantine for apple maggot is declared for all states or foreign countries where apple maggot is established. The area under quarantine includes, but is not limited to, the states of Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and California, and, in the eastern United States, all states and districts east of and including North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and any other areas where apple maggot is established.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 17.24 and 34.05 RCW. 04-09-027, § 16-470-105, filed 4/13/04, effective 8/16/04. Statutory Authority: Chapter 17.24 RCW. 01-14-075, § 16-470-105, filed 7/3/01, effective 8/3/01.]