[APWG] the Noxious Weed Control Act

[Marc Imlay]

As I understand it, the new law is not tied to the official USDA noxious 
weed list despite the nomenclatural confusion. Rob Hedberg may 
have more on this. Cheers

Marc Imlay, PhD
Conservation biologist, Anacostia Watershed
Society (301-699-6204, 301-283-0808)

Board member of the Mid-Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council,
Hui o Laka at Kokee State Park, Hawaii
Vice president of the Maryland Native Plant Society,
Chair of the Biodiversity and Habitat Stewardship Committee
for the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Maryann Whitman 
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  Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:24 PM
  Subject: RE: [APWG] the Noxious Weed Control Act 


  While this bill was still in process I happened (on the net) on a list of the plants of concern. Not only was the list relatively short, but I did not recognize one plant on the list. No knapweed, no star thistle, no purple loosestrife. I wrote for more information and got a very terse letter back telling me that these were agricultural weeds of concern, and that the list had been carefully thought out. Can't seem to find the list on the net anymore. Can anyone corroborate my story? I do hope I'm wrong.

   

  Maryann 

   

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 I'm assuming you mean the one enacted last year....The US Code citation is also below.... NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL AND ERADICATION[[Page 118 STAT. 2320]]Public Law 108-412    An Act    To require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to  provide assistance to eligible weed management entities to control or   eradicate noxious weeds on public and private land. <<NOTE: Oct. 30,                            2004 -  [S. 144]>>      Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,SECTION 1. NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL AND ERADICATION.     The Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new subtitle:

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