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[FR Doc No: 94-6186]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
7 CFR Part 301
[Docket No. 93-075-2]
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 deleting areas in North
Carolina and South Carolina. These changes affected 7 counties in North
Carolina and 2 counties in South Carolina. These actions were necessary
in order to impose certain restrictions on the interstate movement of
regulated articles to prevent the artificial spread of witchweed and to
delete unnecessary restrictions on the interstate movement of regulated
articles.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 18, 1994.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Terry McGovern, Operations
Officer, Plant Protection and Quarantine, APHIS, USDA, room 646,
Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, (301) 436-
8247.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In an interim rule effective and published in the Federal Register
on October 6, 1993 (58 FR 51979-51982, Docket No. 93-075-1), we amended
the witchweed quarantine and regulations by adding areas in Craven,
Cumberland, Greene, Pender, and Pitt Counties in North Carolina, and
areas in Horry County in South Carolina to the list of suppressive
areas in Sec. 301.80-2a of the regulations.
We also amended the list of suppressive areas by removing areas in
Craven, Cumberland, Greene, Pender, Sampson, and Wayne Counties in
North Carolina and Dillon and Horry Counties in South Carolina from the
list of suppressive areas in Sec. 301.80-2a of the regulations.
Comments on the interim rule were required to be received on or
before December 6, 1993. We did not receive any comments. 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 12291 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.
Accordingly, we are adopting as a final rule, without change, the
amendments in subpart ``Witchweed'' in 7 CFR part 301 that were
published at 58 FR 51979-51982 on October 6, 1993.
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 11th day of March 1994.
Patricia Jensen,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Marketing and Inspection Services.
[FR Doc. 94-6186 Filed 3-17-94; 8:45 am]
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