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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For any of you who have APHIS-PPQ permits for shipping live insects, I just discovered the hard way that:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With APHIS’ transition to the new Efile system for applying for permits, they no longer send you a heads up that an existing permit issued through the old Epermits system is going to expire in a few months.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As far as I can tell, in the new Efile system, none of your previous or existing permits issued under the old Epermits system are accessible, so applying for a renewal is apparently not possible, i.e., you have to apply as though it were a new permit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thus, if you have permits, please check their expiration dates, to make sure that you are not going to fall off a cliff, as we just did.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jocelyn</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jocelyn G. Millar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Professor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dept of Entomology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of California</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">3401 Watkins Drive</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Riverside CA 92521, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Ph: 1 951 827 5821</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>