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Board adopts interim rule to restrict transport of coconut rhinoceros beetle host material
Summary
The Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity adopted an interim rule and compliance agreement to restrict transport, receipt and processing of coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) host material from a designated infested area on Hawaii Island, directing staff to implement training and minor edits requested by petitioners.
The State of Hawaii Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity voted unanimously to adopt an interim administrative rule and a companion compliance agreement aimed at slowing the spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) from a designated infested area on Hawaii Island. The board approved the interim rule (Appendix B) and directed the Plant Quarantine Branch to use the compliance agreement (Appendix C) with several minor, petitioner-supplied edits.
Jonathan Ho, plant quarantine branch manager, told the board the petitioners and branch staff revised the draft rule under Hawaii Revised Statutes 158-9.5 and that the advisory committee found current chapter 4-72 HAR lacks adequate regulations on movement of CRB host material. "We met with the petitioners and…
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