Strategic Alliance between NPB and PPQ
In January 2025, the Board of Directors for the National Plant Board and the Plant Protection and Quarantine Management Team traveled to Miami, Florida, to discuss and renew their commitment to a close—and crucial—working relationship.
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STRONGER TOGETHER
The NPB and PPQ partner to use federal and state authorities, resources, and expertise to safeguard plant health and enable safe trade. The NPB and PPQ have an organizational commitment to communication, collaboration, and coordination. Strategic Alliance Framework, 2022. Strategic Alliance Background 2023. Strategic Alliance Strategic Initiatives (SASIs):
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PEST NOTIFICATION POLICY
Detection of pests known not to occur in the U.S. or of pests with limited distribution detected in new areas is of utmost concern to PPQ and to impacted U.S. states. Any new detection requires prompt evaluation, response and communication between PPQ and state’s counterpart. However, at times these processes become complicated because of uncertainty as to what is a ‘significant’ pest or not, and who needs to know and when. To ensure that the simultaneous communication protocol in place for the notification of official plant pest identification results remains relevant to PPQ and the NPB, a team of PPQ and NPB representatives was tasked with: (1) defining what is a notification pause and criteria for placing a notification on hold; and (2) updating PPQ’s Plant Pest Identification Notifications to State Departments of Agriculture protocol to clarify what is a notification pause, and criteria that PPQ would consider when placing a notification on pause.
Detection of pests known not to occur in the U.S. or of pests with limited distribution detected in new areas is of utmost concern to PPQ and to impacted U.S. states. Any new detection requires prompt evaluation, response and communication between PPQ and state’s counterpart. However, at times these processes become complicated because of uncertainty as to what is a ‘significant’ pest or not, and who needs to know and when. To ensure that the simultaneous communication protocol in place for the notification of official plant pest identification results remains relevant to PPQ and the NPB, a team of PPQ and NPB representatives was tasked with: (1) defining what is a notification pause and criteria for placing a notification on hold; and (2) updating PPQ’s Plant Pest Identification Notifications to State Departments of Agriculture protocol to clarify what is a notification pause, and criteria that PPQ would consider when placing a notification on pause.
- SASI Closeout White Paper Pest Notification Policy
- New Pest Detections of Significance in Response to an APHIS-PPQ issued Notification Pause
- Simultaneous Communication Protocol for State Plant Health Directors and State Plant Regulatory Officials
- Official Notification of Plant Pest Identifications to State Departments of Agriculture (March 2025)
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for challenging an official domestic identification and confirmatory identification