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supervised a staff that worked cooperatively with the New York State
            Department of Agriculture and Markets.  In 2008, I became an Agriculturist at

            APHIS headquarters in Riverdale, Maryland, as National Coordinator for
            Official Control.  I engineered a new program that would allow plant pest
            programs administered by state departments of agriculture to qualify for federal
            regulation at ports of entry by Customs and Border Protection (CBPs)

            Agriculture Specialists.  Cognizant of U.S. law and foreign trade agreements, I
            worked closely with CBP as well as the National Plant Board, a group
            representing the state departments of agriculture bureaus, which focus on plant

            health.

            I became the coordinator for APHIS’s Agriculture Quarantine Inspection fees,

            which in 2017 totaled over $780 million.  The fees fund most agricultural
            inspection activities for CBP and USDA.  I worked closely with CBP and
            stakeholders and I also developed the agency’s new framework for a
            multifunctional team to more fully address the responsibilities associated with

            setting the fees. I retired after a total of 37 years of federal service, devoted to
            keeping Americans safe and healthy.



            I am Dr. Howard E. Waterworth, a Veteran, and I worked for the U.S.
            Department of Agriculture. I tested fruit tree samples for virus infections,
            conducted research on plant viruses, and published results in scientific journals
            to assist scientists and the public. Nearly all of the horticultural and agronomic

            crops grown in the United States today evolved in other countries and were
            brought here as the U.S. became inhabited. Today, it is an important program of
            the U.S. Department of Agriculture begun around 1900.  More than 600,000

            samples, all of which are documented in Official Records and published in
            some 50 volumes, are available to the public. In the early days, the process
            inadvertently brought to the U.S. thousands of insects and diseases new to the
            U.S.  For example, a fungus in elm logs imported from the Netherlands became

            established in our native elm trees and has killed nearly all elm trees East of the
            Mississippi River and is known as Dutch Elm Disease.  An imported bacterium

            from the Near East kills apple and pear trees. An imported fungus has caused
            billions of dollars in losses to our cereal crops and continues to be a major
            problem.  To reduce losses caused by imported diseases and insects, the
            Department of Agriculture now holds imported plants in quarantine to ensure

            they will not harm our crops.

            I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, received a Bachelor’s in Agriculture


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