plants for planting whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis notice of availability of data sheets for taxa of plants for planting that are quarantine pests or hosts of quarantine pests docket no. aphis-2011-0072 in a final rule published in the federal register on 27 may 2011 docket no. aphis-2006-0011 notified to the wto as g sps n usa 1941 add.1 and effective on 27 june 2011 the animal and plant health inspection service aphis established under its regulations a new category of plants for planting whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis nappra in order to prevent the introduction of quarantine pests into the united states. the final rule established two lists of taxa whose importation is nappra a list of taxa of plants for planting that are quarantine pests and a list of taxa of plants for planting that are hosts of quarantine pests. for taxa of plants for planting that have been determined to be quarantine pests the list will include the names of the taxa. for taxa of plants for planting that are hosts of quarantine pests the list will include the names of the taxa the foreign places from which the taxas importation is not authorized and the quarantine pests of concern. the final rule did not add any taxa to the nappra lists at the time it was published. in accordance with the process for adding taxa to the nappra lists as listed in our regulations aphis is advising the public via this notice that we have determined that 41 taxa of plants for planting are quarantine pests and 107 taxa of plants for planting are hosts of 13 quarantine pests and therefore should be added to our lists of taxa of plants for planting whose importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis. this notice also makes available data sheets that we have prepared detailing the scientific evidence we evaluated in making the determination that the taxa are quarantine pests or hosts of quarantine pests. we are making these data sheets available to the public for review and comment at www.regulations.gov docketdetail daphis-2011-0072 . for taxa of plants for planting that are hosts of quarantine pests the data sheets specify the countries from which these taxas importation would not be authorized pending pest risk analysis. in most cases the importation of the taxa would not be authorized from any country. for further details please refer to the federal register notice. after reviewing any comments we receive we will announce our decision regarding the addition of the taxa described in the data sheets to the nappra lists in a subsequent notice published in the federal register. if aphis determines that the taxa are quarantine pests or hosts of quarantine pests remains unchanged following our consideration of the comments then we will add the taxa described in the data sheets to the appropriate nappra list and these taxa will be prohibited 15 days after publication of the final notice. federal register 26 july 2011 volume 76 issue 143 notice pages 44572-44573