Agenda

Return

C. 34

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Chad Godoy, Director of Agriculture/Weights & Measures
Date:	October 20, 2015

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

#15-0465-SF Light Brown Apple Moth Program Regulatory

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 10/20/2015

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

R. Crosby (925) 646-5250

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: October 20, 2015
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Agricultural Commissioner, or designee, to execute an agreement with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for an amount not to exceed $60,262 to perform and provide quarantine response and regulatory enforcement activities in compliance with the requirements on behalf of the California Department of Food and Agriculture for the period of October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016.

FISCAL IMPACT:

#15-0465-SF provides reimbursement for County expenses not to exceed $60262 incurred during the period October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016 for quarantine response and regulatory enforcement activities performed on behalf of California Department of Food and Agriculture. No county match.

BACKGROUND:

The Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) was first detected in Contra Costa County in March 2007 and subsequently the county has become generally infested. As multiple detections of LBAM continued, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) imposed emergency adoption of Section 3434, Light Brown Moth Interior Quarantine, eventually adding the entirety of Contra Costa County. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a Federal Domestic Quarantine Order (DA-2007-42), regulating the interstate movement of host material from the infested areas of California and Hawaii. This regulation requires all nurseries, green waste facilities, community gardens and harvest host plant commodities within the infested areas be issue quarantine compliance agreements and be inspected every 30 days.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

A negative action will result in failure to meet state mandates and reduced revenue to the department. This would also negatively impact the county's nursery industry and some growers as they would not be able to meet the requirements to ship host material to non-infested areas outside the county.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

none