NOTICES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Order of Quarantine; Plum Pox Virus
[30 Pa.B. 6608] Whereas, the Plant Pest Act (3 P. S. §§ 258.1--258.27) empowers the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (Department) to take various measures to detect, contain and eradicate plant pests in this Commonwealth; and
Whereas, the powers granted the Department under the Plant Pest Act include (at 3 P. S. § 258.21) the power to establish quarantines to prevent the dissemination of plant pests within this Commonwealth; and
Whereas, Plum Pox Virus--a serious non-native plant pest that injures and damages stone fruits such as peaches, nectarines, plums, and apricots by drastically reducing the fruit yields from these stone fruit trees and by disfiguring the fruit to the point it is unmarketable--has been detected in certain areas of this Commonwealth; and
Whereas, the Department has exercised its authority under the Plant Pest Act and issued several Orders of Quarantine--affecting portions of Adams, Cumberland and York Counties--in an effort to contain, identify and eradicate the Plum Pox Virus; and
Whereas, the Department has determined it necessary to temporarily prohibit the planting of stone fruit trees in these quarantined areas; and
Whereas, the Department considers this prohibition necessary in order to prevent or reduce the spread of PPV in this Commonwealth.
Now, therefore, under authority of Section 21 of the Plant Pest Act (3 P. S. § 258.21), the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture hereby issues the following order:
This Department hereby prohibits the planting of stone fruit trees (apricot, nectarine, peach and plum) in the areas currently under PPV-related quarantine. This temporary prohibition applies to both fruit-bearing and ornamental varieties of stone fruit trees. Examples of common varieties of ornamental stone fruit trees include purpleleaf plum, flowering almond, flowering peach and purpleleaf sandcherry. The areas currently under PPV-related quarantine, and references to prior editions of the Pennsylvania Bulletin containing these Quarantine Orders, are as follows:
Adams County
Latimore Township (29 Pa.B. 5735, November 6, 1999)
Huntington Township (29 Pa.B. 5735, November 6, 1999)
Borough of York Springs (30 Pa.B. 5852, November 11, 2000)
That portion of Tyrone Township located north of State Highway 234 (30 Pa.B. 4357, August 19, 2000)
That part of Menallen Township located to the east of the rough north-to-south line extending from the northern border of the township, south on State Route 4007 (Pine Grove Furnace Road) to State Route 4008, to State Highway 34 (at Bendersville), and south on State Highway 34 to the southern border of that township (30 Pa.B. 4357, August 19, 2000)
Cumberland County
Dickinson Township (30 Pa.B. 4357, August 19, 2000)
South Middleton Township (30 Pa.B. 3269, July 1, 2000)
Borough of Mount Holly Springs (30 Pa.B. 5852, November 11, 2000)
This Order applies to commercial orchards, commercial nurseries, homeowners and all persons within the quarantine areas described above.
This Order is effective as of December 13, 2000, and shall remain in effect until terminated by subsequent order.
SAMUEL E. HAYES, Jr.
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-2215. Filed for public inspection December 22, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]
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