Proposed Rule for the Importation of Unmanufactured Wood Articles from Mexico,with Consideration for Cumulative Impact of Methyl Bromide Use. Draft Environmental Impact Statement, June 2000

摘要

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service(APHIS) enforces Federal laws and regulations that serve to prevent the entry and spread of harmful nonnative pests that, if established, could threaten U.S. agricultural, forestry, and other important resources. APHIS inspects commodities and requires treatment of some commodities, using chemical or nonchemical methods or a combination of both methods, to eliminate the risk of actionable pests through regulatory activities. The concern about the cumulative impact from a chemical treatment method, used to mitigate potential pest risk and proposed as a treatment option in a rule change to an existing regulation, precipitated the need to prepare this environmental impact statement (EIS).