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Vol. 63, No. 1

Friday, January 2, 1998

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service

7 CFR Part 301

[Docket No. 96–016–28]

RIN 0579–AA83

Karnal Bunt; Additions to Regulated

Areas

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Interim rule; technical

amendment.

SUMMARY: In an interim rule published

in the Federal Register on November

24,1997, we amended the Karnal bunt

regulations by adding portions of

McCulloch, Mills, and San Saba

Counties, TX, to the list of regulated

areas and by expanding the boundaries

of the regulated areas in La Paz,

Maricopa, and Pinal Counties, AZ, due

to the detection of Karnal bunt in those

areas.

The interim rule contained an error in

the Supplementary Information section

and an error in a list of fields in the rule

portion. This document corrects those

errors.

DATES: This amendment is effective

November 24, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Please send an original and

three copies of your comments to

Docket No. 96–016–26, Regulatory

Analysis and Development, PPD,

APHIS, suite 3C03, 4700 River Road

Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.

Please state that your comments refer to

Docket No. 96–016–26. Comments

received may be inspected at USDA,

room 1141, South Building, 14th Street

and Independence Avenue SW.,

Washington, DC, between 8 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

except holidays. Persons wishing to

inspect comments are requested to call

ahead on (202) 690–2817 to facilitate

entry into the comment reading room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Mike Stefan, Operations Officer,

Domestic and Emergency Operations,

PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 134,

Riverdale, MD 20737–1236, (301) 734–

8247.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In an

interim rule published in the Federal

Register on November 24, 1997 (62 FR

62504–62506, Docket No. 96–016–26),

we amended the Karnal bunt regulations

in 7 CFR part 301 by adding certain

counties in Texas to the list of regulated

areas due to the detection of Karnal bunt

in those areas. We also expanded the

boundaries of regulated areas in certain

counties in Arizona for the same reason.

In the Supplementary Information

section of the interim rule, we

summarized the regulations that apply

to these newly regulated areas. Among

other things, we stated that ‘‘While

Karnal bunt host crops may be planted

in the surveillance area, they may not be

used for seed.’’ We should have said

that Karnal bunt host crops may be

planted in the surveillance area and

may be used for seed within the

regulated area if tested and found free

from spores and bunted wheat kernels

and then treated with fungicide in

acccordance with § 301.89–13(d).

Also, the rule portion of the interim

rule contained an error in a list of

numbered fields designated as restricted

areas for regulated articles other than

seed in San Saba County, TX. Field

number 40113 3301 should not have

been listed. Fields numbers 40113 3302

and 40113 3303 should have been listed

instead. All these fields belong to the

same individual, and the

misdesignation stemmed from a

paperwork error. We are correcting the

error in our list.

List of Subjects in 7 CFR 301

Agricultural commodities, Plant

diseases and pests, Quarantine reporting

and recordkeeping requirements,

Transportation.

Accordingly, 7 CFR part 301 is

amended as follows:

PART 301—DOMESTIC QUARANTINE

NOTICES

1. The authority citation for part 301

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 147a, 150bb, 150dd,

150ee, 150ff, 161, 162, and 164–167; 7 CFR

2.22, 2.80, and 371.2(c).

§ 301.89–3 [Corrected]

2. In § 301.89–3, in paragraph (f),

under the heading ‘‘Texas’’, in

paragraph (2), under ‘‘San Saba

County’’, the number ‘‘40113 3301’’ is

removed and the numbers ‘‘40113 3302’’

and ‘‘40113 3303’’ are added in its

place.

Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of

December 1997.

Terry L. Medley,

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service.

[FR Doc. 97–34177 Filed 12–31–97; 8:45 am]

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Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service

9 CFR Part 3

[Docket No. 97–126–1]

Specifications for the Humane

Handling, Care, Treatment, and

Transportation of Marine Mammals;

Nonsubstantive Corrections

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: We are amending the

regulations regarding humane handling,

care, treatment, and transportation of

marine mammals to correct the

designations of three footnotes. This

action will result in all the footnotes in

9 CFR part 3, ‘‘Standards,’’ being

numbered consecutively. We are also

removing the authority citations that

appear unnecessarily in three places in

the regulations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 23, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs.

Kathy Holmes, Regulatory Coordination

Specialist, Regulatory Analysis and

Development, Program Planning and

Development, APHIS, USDA, 4700

River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD

20737–1238; (301) 734–8682.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The regulations in 9 CFR part 3,

subpart E (§§ 3.100 through 3.118,