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6577 

Vol. 73, No. 24 

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 

1To view the interim rule, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ 

main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2007-0114. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

7 CFR Part 246 

[FNS–2006–0037] 

RIN 0584–AD77 

Special Supplemental Nutrition 

Program for Women, Infants and 

Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC 

Food Packages; Approval of 

Information Collection Request 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Interim rule; notice of approval 

of Information Collection Request (ICR). 

SUMMARY: The interim rule entitled 

Special Supplemental Nutrition 

Program for Women, Infants and 

Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC 

Food Packages was published on 

December 6, 2007. The Office of 

Management and Budget cleared the 

associated information collection 

requirements (ICR) on December 7, 

2007. This document announces 

approval of the ICR. 

DATES: The ICR associated with the 

interim rule published in the Federal 

Register on December 6, 2007, at 72 FR 

68966, was approved by OMB on 

December 7, 2007, under OMB Control 

Number 0584–0545. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Debra Whitford, Chief, Policy and 

Program Development Branch, 

Supplemental Food Programs Division, 

Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, 

3101 Park Center Drive, Room 528, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22302, (703) 305– 

2746, OR 

Debbie.Whitford@fns.usda.gov. 

Dated: January 29, 2008. 

Gloria Gutierrez, 

Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition 

Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–2030 Filed 2–4–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

7 CFR Part 301 

[Docket No. APHIS–2007–0114] 

Imported Fire Ant; Additions to the List 

of Quarantined Areas 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Affirmation of interim rule as 

final rule. 

SUMMARY: We are adopting as a final 

rule, without change, an interim rule 

that amended the imported fire ant 

regulations by designating as 

quarantined areas all or portions of 2 

counties in Arkansas, 3 in North 

Carolina, and 3 in Tennessee, by 

expanding the quarantined area in 1 

county in Arkansas and 15 in 

Tennessee, and by designating the entire 

State of South Carolina as a quarantined 

area. The interim rule was necessary to 

prevent the artificial spread of imported 

fire ant to noninfested areas of the 

United States. As a result of the interim 

rule, the interstate movement of 

regulated articles from those 

quarantined areas is restricted. 

DATES: Effective on February 5, 2008, we 

are adopting as a final rule the interim 

rule published at 72 FR 60533–60537 on 

October 25, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Charles L. Brown, Imported Fire Ant 

Quarantine Program Manager, Pest 

Detection and Management Programs, 

PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 134, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; (301) 734– 

4838. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The imported fire ant regulations 

(contained in 7 CFR 301.81 through 

301.81–10 and referred to below as the 

regulations) quarantine infested States 

or infested areas within States and 

restrict the interstate movement of 

regulated articles to prevent the 

artificial spread of the imported fire ant. 

The regulations are intended to prevent 

the imported fire ant from spreading 

throughout its ecological range within 

the country. 

The regulations in § 301.81–3 provide 

that the Administrator of the Animal 

and Plant Health Inspection Service will 

list as a quarantined area each State, or 

each portion of a State, that is infested 

with the imported fire ant. The 

Administrator will designate less than 

an entire State as a quarantined area 

only under the following conditions: (1) 

The State has adopted and is enforcing 

restrictions on the intrastate movement 

of the regulated articles listed in 

§ 301.81–2 that are equivalent to the 

interstate movement restrictions 

imposed by the regulations; and (2) 

designating less than the entire State 

will prevent the spread of the imported 

fire ant. The Administrator may include 

uninfested acreage within a quarantined 

area due to its proximity to an 

infestation or its inseparability from an 

infested locality for quarantine 

purposes. In § 301.81–3, paragraph (e) 

lists quarantined areas. 

In an interim rule 1 effective and 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 25, 2007 (72 FR 60533–60537, 

Docket No. APHIS–2007–0114), we 

amended § 301.81–3(e) by: 

• Adding all of Lonoke and Yell 

Counties, AR, to the quarantined area; 

• Expanding the quarantined area in 

Faulkner County, AR, to include the 

entirety of the county; 

• Adding portions of Iredell, Lincoln, 

and Rutherford Counties, NC, to the list 

of quarantined areas; 

• Expanding the quarantined areas in 

Cherokee, Greenville, and Spartanburg 

Counties, SC, to include the entirety of 

each county, with the result that the 

entire State of South Carolina is now 

designated as a quarantined area; 

• Adding portions of Crockett, 

Morgan, and Warren Counties, TN, to 

the list of quarantined areas; 

• Expanding the quarantined areas in 

Anderson, Coffee, Cumberland, 

Haywood, Knox, and Williamson 

Counties, TN; and 

• Expanding the quarantined areas in 

Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Blount, 

Carroll, Grundy, Hickman, Rutherford, 


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