Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/04/07/E9-7845/revision-of-the-hawaiian-and-territorial-fruits-and-vegetables-regulations-technical-amendment
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Federal Register :: Revision of the Hawaiian and Territorial Fruits and Vegetables Regulations; Technical Amendment
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E9-7845 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E9-7845
In a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on January 16, 2009 (74 FR 2770-2786, Docket No. APHIS-2007-0052), and effective on February 17, 2009, we revised the regulations governing the interstate movement of fruits and vegetables from Hawaii and the territories. Those regulations do not apply to articles whose interstate movement is regulated under the subpart governing the interstate movement of soil, sand, earth, and plants in growing media from Hawaii and the territories; we neglected to indicate that in the final rule. In this amendment, we are amending the regulations to clearly indicate that the interstate movement of soil, sand, earth, and plants in growing media is governed by the regulations specific to those articles.
In a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on January 16, 2009 (74 FR 2770-2786, Docket No. APHIS-2007-0052), and effective on February 17, 2009, we revised the regulations in 7 CFR part 318 that govern the interstate movement of fruits and vegetables from Hawaii and the territories. The final rule combined the three subparts in 7 CFR part 318 that governed the interstate movement of fruits, vegetables, cut flowers, and certain other articles from Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam, respectively, into “Subpart—Regulated Articles From Hawaii and the Territories” (§§ 318.13-1 through 318.13-25) and established provisions for the interstate movement of those articles.
Within that subpart, § 318.13-1(b) contains a general statement that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has determined that it is necessary to prohibit the interstate movement of cut flowers and fruits and vegetables and plants and portions of plants from Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands except as provided in the regulations or as provided in “Subpart—Territorial Cotton, Cottonseed, and Cottonseed Products” (§§ 318.47 through 318.47-4) in 7 CFR part 318. We provided the exception for “Subpart—Territorial Cotton, Cottonseed, and Cottonseed Products” because the interstate movement of those plant parts is regulated under that subpart, rather than under the regulations for the interstate movement of fruits and vegetables.
In addition, the regulations in “Subpart—Sand, Soil, or Earth, with Plants from Territories and Districts” provide for the interstate movement of certain plants—specifically, plants in approved growing media, conditions for whose movement are found in Start Printed Page 15641§ 318.60(c). Therefore, in the final rule, we should have also included an exception for “Subpart—Sand, Soil, or Earth, with Plants from Territories and Districts” in § 318.13-1(b). We are correcting that error in this technical amendment.
2. In § 318.13-1, paragraph (b) is amended by adding the words “and “Subpart—Sand, Soil, or Earth, with Plants from Territories and Districts”” after the word “Products””.
[FR Doc. E9-7845 Filed 4-6-09; 8:45 am]