[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 208 (Friday, October 27, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 54938-54939]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-26728]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
7 CFR Part 301
[Docket No. 95-048-2]
Witchweed; Regulated Areas
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Affirmation of interim rule as final rule.
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SUMMARY: We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim
rule that amended the list of suppressive areas under the witchweed
quarantine and regulations by adding and removing areas in North
Carolina and South Carolina. These changes affected 11 counties in
North Carolina and 4 counties in South Carolina. These actions were
necessary in order to impose certain restrictions and to relieve
unnecessary restrictions on the interstate movement of regulated
articles to help prevent the spread of witchweed.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 27, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mario Rodriguez, Operations
Officer, Domestic and Emergency Operations, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road
Unit 134, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236, (301) 734-8247.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In an interim rule effective July 31, 1995, and published in the
Federal Register on August 4, 1995 (60 FR 39835-39837, Docket No. 95-
048-1), we amended Sec. 301.80-2a of the witchweed quarantine and
regulations by adding areas in Greene, Pender, Pitt, Sampson, and Wayne
Counties, North Carolina, and areas in Dillon County, South Carolina to
the list of suppressive areas. We also amended Sec. 301.80-2a by
removing areas in Cumberland, Duplin, Greene, Harnett, Pender, and
Wayne Counties, North Carolina, and Berkeley, Dillon, and Horry
Counties, South Carolina from the list of suppressive areas.
Comments on the interim rule were required to be received on or
before October 3, 1995. We received one comment by that date. The
commenter supported the interim rule as written. The facts presented in
the interim rule still provide a basis for the rule.
This action also affirms the information contained in the interim
rule concerning Executive Order 12866 and the Regulatory Flexibility
Act, Executive Orders 12372 and 12778, and the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Further, for this action, the Office of Management and Budget has
waived the review process required by Executive Order 12866.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 301
Agricultural commodities, Plant diseases and pests, Quarantine,
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Transportation.
PART 301--DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES
Accordingly, we are adopting as a final rule, without change, the
interim
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rule that amended 7 CFR 301 and that was published at 60 FR 39835-39837
on August 4, 1995.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 150bb, 150dd, 150ee, 150ff, 161, 162, and
164-167; 7 CFR 2.17, 2.51, and 371.2(c).
Done in Washington, DC, this 23rd day of October 1995.
Terry L. Medley,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 95-26728 Filed 10-26-95; 8:45 am]
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