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                                                   VOL. 59, NO. 175

                                         Monday, September 12, 1994

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

7 CFR Part 301

[Docket No. 94-034-2]

 

Pink Bollworm Regulated Areas

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This document makes final an interim rule that amended the 
pink bollworm regulations by removing Craighead, Cross, Greene, Monroe, 
Poinsett, and St. Francis Counties in Arkansas, Concordia Parish in 
Louisiana, and Washington County in Mississippi from the list of 
suppressive areas, and removing Louisiana and Mississippi from the list 
of States quarantined because of the pink bollworm. The interim rule 
was necessary to relieve restrictions on the interstate movement of 
regulated articles from certain previously regulated areas.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 12, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Sidney E. Cousins, Senior 
Operations Officer, Plant Protection and Quarantine, APHIS, USDA, room 
643, Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, (301) 
436-6365.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In an interim rule effective and published in the Federal Register 
on May 31, 1994 (59 FR 27965-27966, Docket No. 94-034-1), we amended 
the pink bollworm regulations in 7 CFR part 301 by removing Craighead, 
Cross, Greene, Monroe, Poinsett, and St. Francis Counties in Arkansas; 
Concordia Parish in Louisiana and Washington County in Mississippi from 
the list of suppressive areas in Sec. 301.52-2a. We also stated that 
the interim rule would remove Louisiana and Mississippi from the list 
of States quarantined to prevent the spread of the pink bollworm since 
there would not be any areas in those States regulated because of the 
pink bollworm. We stated that change would affect Sec. 301.52-2a; it 
should have stated it would affect Sec. 301.52(a). However, we 
inadvertently left that action out of the amendatory section of the 
interim rule. This final rule corrects that omission.
    Comments on the interim rule were required to be received on or 
before August 1, 1994. We did not receive any comments by that date. 
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.

    Accordingly, the interim rule that amended 7 CFR 301.52-2a and that 
was published at 59 FR 27965-27966 on May 31, 1994, is adopted as a 
final rule with the following changes:

PART 301--DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES

    1. The authority citation for part 301 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 150bb, 150dd, 150ee, 150ff, 161, 162, and 
164-167; 7 CFR 2.17, 2.51, and 371.2(c).

    2. In Sec. 301.52, paragraph (a), the words ``Louisiana, 
Mississippi,'' are removed.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 6th day of September 1994.
Terry L. Medley,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 94-22495 Filed 9-9-94; 8:45 am]
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