We are amending the Oriental fruit fly regulations by quarantining a portion of San Bernardino County, CA, and restricting the interstate movement of regulated articles from the quarantined area. This action is necessary on an emergency basis to prevent the spread of the Oriental fruit fly into noninfested areas of the United States.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the West Indian fruit fly regulations by removing the quarantine on a portion of Cameron County, TX, and by removing the restrictions on the interstate movement of regulated articles from that area. This action is necessary to relieve restrictions that are no longer needed to prevent the spread of the West Indian fruit fly into

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the Asian longhorned beetle regulations to include additional quarantined areas in Illinois and New York. As a result of this action, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those areas is restricted. This action is necessary on an emergency basis to prevent the artificial spread of the Asian longhorned beetle to

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending our citrus canker regulations to establish provisions under which eligible owners of commercial citrus groves may, subject to the availability of appropriated funds, receive payments to recover production income lost as a result of the removal of commercial citrus trees to control citrus canker. These lost production payments are

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the Oriental fruit fly regulations by quarantining a portion of San Diego County, CA, and restricting the interstate movement of regulated articles from the quarantined area. This action is necessary on an emergency basis to prevent the spread of the Oriental fruit fly into noninfested areas of the United States.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the Karnal bunt regulations by adding Throckmorton and Young Counties in Texas to the list of areas regulated because of Karnal bunt, a fungal disease of wheat, due to the detection of bunted kernels in grain grown in this area. This action will help prevent the spread of Karnal bunt into noninfected areas of the United States.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the Karnal bunt regulations to provide compensation for certain growers, handlers, seed companies, owners of grain storage facilities, flour millers, and participants in the National Karnal Bunt Survey who incur losses and expenses because of Karnal bunt in the 19992000 crop season. The payment of compensation is

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the black stem rust quarantine and regulations by requiring that persons who request the addition of Berberis, Mahoberberis, or Mahonia spp. plants to the list of rust resistant varieties in the regulations must provide the Agency with a description of the variety that can be used by State nursery inspectors to clearly

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the Mediterranean fruit fly regulations by adding a portion of Los Angeles County, CA, to the list of quarantined areas and restricting the interstate movement of regulated articles from the quarantined area. This action is necessary on an emergency basis to prevent the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly into noninfested areas

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the regulations by adding new areas to the list of areas regulated because of Karnal bunt, a fungal disease of wheat, due to the detection during the 2000 harvest of bunted kernels in grain grown in these areas. We are also removing certain fields from regulation because wheat is no longer grown in those fields or because fields

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are quarantining part of Cameron County, TX, because of the West Indian fruit fly and restricting the interstate movement of regulated articles from the quarantined area. This action is necessary on an emergency basis to prevent the spread of the West Indian fruit fly to noninfested areas of the United States.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the citrus canker regulations by removing a portion of the quarantined area in Manatee County, FL, from the list of quarantined areas. The regulations require that an area be free from citrus canker for a period of at least 2 years before it may be removed from the list of quarantined areas. Surveys have shown that a

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the Asian longhorned beetle regulations by expanding the quarantined areas in the city of New York and in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, NY. As a result the interim rule, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those areas is restricted. The interim rule was

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are adopting as a final rule, with one change, an interim rule that amended our citrus canker regulations to establish provisions under which eligible owners of commercial citrus groves may receive payments to replace commercial citrus trees removed because of citrus canker. The interim rule that provided for the payment of those funds was

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the imported fire ant regulations by adding additional areas in Tennessee to the list of quarantined areas. As a result of that action, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those areas is restricted. The interim rule was necessary to prevent the artificial

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the Karnal bunt regulations to provide compensation for certain growers, handlers, seed companies, owners of grain storage facilities, flour millers, and participants in the National Karnal Bunt Survey who incurred losses and expenses because of Karnal bunt in the 19992000 crop season and afterward. The payment of compensation is

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the Karnal bunt regulations by adding Archer and Baylor Counties in Texas to the list of regulated areas. This action is precipitated by the detection of bunted kernels in samples taken from bins of wheat grain stored in Baylor County and harvested in Archer and Baylor Counties. This action will help prevent the spread of Karnal

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the pine shoot beetle regulations by adding 28 counties in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin to the list of quarantined areas. As a result of that action, the interstate movement of regulated

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

CFR Correction

In Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations, parts 300 to 399, revised as of January 1, 2001, appearing on page 34 and 35, Sec. 301.503(d) is removed. The text was removed by an amendment published at 64 FR 387, January 5, 1999.
[FR Doc.0155522 Filed 9501; 8:45

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the pine shoot beetle regulations by adding counties in Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia to the list of quarantined areas. This action is necessary to prevent the spread of pine shoot beetle, a pest of pine products, into noninfested areas of the United States. We are also

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are correcting an error in the rule portion of an interim rule that quarantined a part of Cameron County, TX, because of the West Indian fruit fly and restricted the interstate movement of regulated articles from the quarantined area. The interim rule was published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2001, and was effective on January 12,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

This document corrects an interim rule published July 18, 2001, that amended the pine shoot beetle regulations. The correction changes an instruction to reflect that a paragraph containing a map depicting the quarantined area (7 CFR 301.503(d)) was being added rather than revised.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Veterans Affairs Department

We are amending the gypsy moth regulations by adding counties in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin to the list of generally infested areas. As a result of this action, the interstate movement of certain articles from those areas will be restricted. This action is necessary to prevent the artificial spread of the gypsy

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the Karnal bunt regulations by adding new areas to the list of areas regulated because of Karnal bunt, a fungal disease of wheat, due to the detection of bunted kernels in grain grown in these areas. We are also proposing to remove certain fields from regulation because wheat is no longer grown in those fields or because

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, a series of interim rules published in the Federal Register between September 1999 and June 2000 that amended the Mexican fruit fly regulations by adding and subsequently removing regulated areas in the State of California. One of the interim rules also added an alternative chemical treatment for

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service