RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Agricultural Commissioner, or designee, to execute an agreement with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to reimburse the county in an amount not to exceed $58,769 to provide Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) quarantine response and regulatory enforcement activities for the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This agreement provides reimbursement for county expenses not to exceed $58,769 incurred during the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. There is no county match of funds nor grant monies involved.
BACKGROUND:
The LBAM was first detected in Contra Costa County in March 2007 and subsequently the County has become generally infested. The CDFA imposed the LBAM Interior Quarantine, for the entirety of Contra Costa County. The United States Department of Food and Agriculture issued a Federal Domestic Quarantine order regulating interstate travel of host materials. This regulation requires all nurseries green waste facilities, community gardens, harvest host plants and commodities within the infested areas be issued quarantine compliance agreements and be inspected every 30 days.
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