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1The Treatment Manual is available on the 

Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_

export/plants/manuals/index.shtml or by 

contacting the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Manuals 

Unit, 92 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 200, 

Frederick, MD 21702. 

2To view the notice, the treatment evaluation 

document, the finding of no significant impact, and 

the comment we received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS2013-0095. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0095] 

Notice of Affirmation of Addition of a 

Treatment Schedule for Methyl 

Bromide Fumigation of Kumquat 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are affirming our earlier 

determination that it was necessary to 

immediately add to the Plant Protection 

and Quarantine Treatment Manual a 

treatment schedule for methyl bromide 

fumigation of kumquats to control 

certain fruit flies. In a previous notice, 

we made available to the public for 

review and comment a treatment 

evaluation document that described the 

new treatment schedule and explained 

why we have determined that it is 

effective at neutralizing fruit flies. 

DATES: Effective on June 4, 2014, we are 

affirming the addition to the Plant 

Protection and Quarantine Treatment 

Manual of the treatment described in 

the notice published at 79 FR 4867– 

4868 on January 30, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Marc Phillips, Senior Regulatory Policy 

Specialist with Regulations, Permits and 

Manuals, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road, 

Unit 135, Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; 

(301) 851–2114. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

regulations in 7 CFR chapter III are 

intended, among other things, to 

prevent the introduction or 

dissemination of plant pests and 

noxious weeds into or within the United 

States. Under the regulations, certain 

plants, fruits, vegetables, and other 

articles must be treated before they may 

be moved into the United States or 

interstate. The phytosanitary treatments 

regulations contained in part 305 of 7 

CFR chapter III (referred to below as the 

regulations) set out standards for 

treatments required in parts 301, 318, 

and 319 of 7 CFR chapter III for fruits, 

vegetables, and other articles. 

In § 305.2, paragraph (b) states that 

approved treatment schedules are set 

out in the Plant Protection and 

Quarantine (PPQ) Treatment Manual.1

Section 305.3 sets out a process for 

adding, revising, or removing treatment 

schedules in the PPQ Treatment 

Manual. In that section, paragraph (b) 

sets out the process for adding, revising, 

or removing treatment schedules when 

there is an immediate need to make a 

change. The circumstances in which an 

immediate need exists are described in 

§ 305.3(b)(1). They are: 

• PPQ has determined that an 

approved treatment schedule is 

ineffective at neutralizing the targeted 

plant pest(s). 

• PPQ has determined that, in order 

to neutralize the targeted plant pest(s), 

the treatment schedule must be 

administered using a different process 

than was previously used. 

• PPQ has determined that a new 

treatment schedule is effective, based on 

efficacy data, and that ongoing trade in 

a commodity or commodities may be 

adversely impacted unless the new 

treatment schedule is approved for use. 

• The use of a treatment schedule is 

no longer authorized by the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency or by 

any other Federal entity. 

In accordance with § 305.3(b), we 

published a notice 2 in the Federal 

Register on January 30, 2014 (79 FR 

4867–4868, Docket No. APHIS–2013– 

0095), announcing our determination 

that a new methyl bromide fumigation 

treatment schedule to control the fruit 

flies Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha 

fraterculus on kumquat (Fortunella 

japonica) is effective, based on evidence 

presented in a treatment evaluation 

document (TED) we made available 

with the notice. We also determined 

that ongoing trade in kumquat would be 

adversely impacted unless the new 

treatment is approved for use. The 

treatment was added to the PPQ 

Treatment Manual, but was subject to 

change based on public comment. The 

notice also made available a finding of 

no significant impact based on an 

environmental assessment prepared in 

connection with the authorization of the 

importation of kumquats from Uruguay. 

We solicited comments on the notice 

for 60 days ending on March 31, 2014. 

We received one comment by that date, 

from a private citizen. The commenter 

objected to the use of methyl bromide 

fumigation in general but did not 

present any evidence indicating that the 

treatment schedule described in the 

TED was not effective at neutralizing 

fruit flies. 

Therefore, in accordance with the 

regulations in § 305.3(b)(3), we are 

affirming our addition of a methyl 

bromide treatment schedule for 

kumquats to control certain fruit flies, as 

described in the TED made available 

with the previous notice. The treatment 

schedule is numbered T101–n–3. The 

treatment schedule will be listed in the 

PPQ Treatment Manual, which is 

available as described in footnote 1 of 

this document. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781– 

7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 2.22, 

2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 29th day of 

May 2014. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

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