In pursuit of controlling the spread of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu, the Department of Agriculture is requiring permits to move poultry or other poultry related cargo into, with or from the established quarantine area.

Here’s the quarantine zone map: https://padeptag.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a9066a3d68a443a08043766cb84bf4ae

Here’s the permit application: https://pacedcitpowerapps.powerappsportals.us/services/AG-Permit-to-Move-Poultry/

From the Pennsylvania Bulletin:

9. Permit Required. No poultry shall move into, within, from or out of the Quarantine Area or off or onto a premises within the Quarantine Area without a Permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and no conveyance, vehicle, container, materials or live or unprocessed goods or products of poultry or other domestic animals shall move into, within, from or out of the quarantine area or off or onto a premises within the Quarantine Area on which any poultry is present without a Permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. A prerequisite for the issuance of any Permit is a biosecurity plan approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Permit forms, standards and requirements are established on the Department's website at padls.agriculture.pa.gov or at direct link padls.agriculture.pa.gov/InnerPages/HPAI.html, and are incorporated into this Order by reference, as if fully set forth herein. Any person without access to the internet or the Department's website may call the Department at (717) 772-2852 and request a copy of the Permit requirements. Restricted movements include:

 a. Transport poultry, poultry waste, poultry manure, containers or materials or live or unprocessed goods or products of poultry or other domestic animals or any combination of those into, within, from or out of the Quarantine Area, and

 b. Deliver or distribute poultry, poultry waste, poultry manure, containers or materials or live or unprocessed goods or products of poultry or other domestic animals or any combination of those into, within, from or out of the Quarantine Area, and

 c. Pickup poultry, poultry waste, poultry manure, containers or materials or live or unprocessed goods or products of poultry or other domestic animals or any combination of those into, within, from or out of the Quarantine Area, and

 d. Transport, deliver, pickup or distribute poultry, poultry waste, poultry manure, containers or materials or live or unprocessed goods or products of poultry or other domestic animals or any combination of those into, within, from or out of the Quarantine Area, and

 e. With regard to poultry waste and poultry manure or the waste or manure of any other domestic animal on the same premises as poultry this Order shall apply to any vehicle, conveyance or container utilized in the movement or application thereof.

 f. Feed or feed products or materials shipped onto a premises containing poultry within the Quarantine Area.