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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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