Orchids

Proposed Rule: Imports: Orchids in Growing Media (Docket Number APHIS-2016-0005).

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is
proposing to amend the regulations governing the importation of plants for planting to
add orchid plants of the genus Dendrobium from Chinese Taipei to the list of plants that
may be imported into the United States in an approved growing medium, subject to
specified growing, inspection, and certification requirements. We are taking this action in
response to a request from the government of Chinese Taipei and after determining that
the plants could be imported, under certain conditions, without resulting in the
introduction into, or the dissemination within, the United States of a plant pest or
noxious weed.
Federal Register Vol. 81, Thursday, 27 October 2016, pages 74720-74722.