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Notice: 5443366

Notice of Development of Rulemaking

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES

Division:

Division of Agricultural Environmental Services

Chapter:

SEED: GENERALLY

Overview

RULE:

5E-4.003	Noxious Weed Seed
5E-4.0041	Disposition of Seed Contaminated with Noxious Weed Seed

PURPOSE:

The purpose of the proposed action is to amend Rules 5E-4.003 and 5E-4.0041, F.A.C., to reclassify Nutgrass, cyperus rotundus, and Tropical Soda Apple, solanum viarum, from the status of prohibited noxious weed seed to restricted noxious weed seed. The proposed modifications will allow Florida grown seed lots, predominately bahiagrass and aeschymomene, found by laboratory analysis to contain a maximum of one Tropical Soda Apple seed per pound to be relabeled to explicit standards and sold only in Florida. The rule modification will also permit the sale of peanut seed lots found to be contaminated with nutgrass at a rate of one seed per pound. These modifications will provide the Florida seedsmen an option other than destruction thereby reducing the economic hardship to Florida’s seed industry.

SUBJECT:

The amendment to Rules 5E-4.003 and 5E-4.0041, F.A.C., to reclassify Nutgrass, cyperus rotundus, and Tropical Soda Apple, solanum viarum, from the status of prohibited noxious weed seed to restricted noxious weed seed.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

570.07(23), 578.11(2), 578.12 FS.

LAW:

578.11(3), 578.12 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

4/4/2008 Vol. 34/14

RELATED STATUTES
AND LAWS:

570.07(23), 578.11(2), 578.12 FS., 578.11(3), 578.12 FS.

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:

Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
Florida Administrative Law Central Online Network (F.A.L.C.O.N.)

RELATED COURT CASES:

Division of Administrative Hearings

FEDERAL eRULEMAKING
WEB PORTAL:

Regulations.gov

HOW TO LINK TO
THIS NOTICE:

http://flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=5E-4.003&PDate=4/4/2008&Section=1

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

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