[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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