Dear Colleagues:
Good News. We now have final word that the revised Arizona Noxious Weed list will officially become law on January 4, 2020.
The updated noxious weed list contained in the rule changes proposed by the Department of Agriculture was unanimously endorsed by the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council in October 2019. The new rules are expected to be published on the Arizona Administrative Register of the Secretary of State website by Friday November 22, 2019.
The rule changes will go into law on 4 January 2020 and will then appear in the Arizona Administrative Code with the first quarterly Code Supplement of 2020. The new Plant Division Code will also appear on the Department of Agriculture website in January 2020.
Following the public meetings and comment period in June, only one change was made to the Noxious Weed List proposed by SWVMA, the addition of Carrichtera annua to the Class A Weed Group.
This has been a very long process starting in 2007. But finally we got it done. Hopefully it will not take another 12 years before we manage to update the list again !
— The SWVMA Noxious Weed Working Group
Patti Fenner, John Brock, John Scheuring and John Richardson
Southwest Vegetation Management Assoc.