Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 2 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Division 70 - Plant Industries
Chapter 11 - Missouri Plant Law Quarantines
Section 2 CSR 70-11.060 - Thousand Cankers Disease of Walnut Exterior Quarantine
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule prevents the introduction into Missouri of a newly-described destructive pest complex known as Thousand Cankers Disease of Walnut, consisting of an insect pest, the Walnut Twig Beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, and a fungal pathogen, Geosmithia morbida sp. nov.
(1) It has been determined that Thousand Cankers Disease of Walnut, a lethal insect-fungal pathogen pest complex of walnut (Juglans spp.) has been detected in at least nine (9) states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, and Washington). The Walnut Twig Beetle is known from several western states and Mexico; however, the fungus is a newly-described fungus with a proposed name of Geosmithia morbida sp. nov. Thousand Cankers Disease has not yet been found in Missouri, but its introduction could cause an estimated $851 million in losses over a twenty (20)-year period to the state economy, as well as inestimable, long-term ecological and sociological impacts. As such, the state entomologist, under the authority of section 263.140, RSMo, of the Missouri Plant Law does now establish a quarantine to prevent the introduction of this pest complex into Missouri and now sets forth the name of this pest complex against which the quarantine is established, the quarantined area, the articles regulated, and the penalty.
(2) The following definitions shall apply to this quarantine:
(3) The following is a list of articles, the movement of which is regulated:
(4) Regulated articles from the areas listed below are prohibited entry into Missouri under any circumstances.
(5) The following are conditions of movement of regulated articles:
(6) Regulated articles transported in violation of this quarantine may be destroyed, or returned to the point of origin, at the discretion of the state entomologist. Common carriers or other carriers, persons, firms, or corporations who transport or move regulated articles in violation of this quarantine and these rules will be subject to the penalties named in section 263.180, RSMo, of the Missouri Plant Law.
(7) These rules are distinct from, and in addition to, any federal statute, regulation, or quarantine order addressing the interstate movement of articles from the known infested areas.
*Original authority: 263.040, RSMo 1939, amended 1984; 263.050, RSMo 1939, amended 1984, 1993, 1995; and 263.180, RSMo 1939, amended 1984.