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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
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5 CFR Part 532
Prevailing Rate Systems
CFR Correction
In Title 5 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, Parts 1 to 699, revised as of
January 1, 2014, on page 445, in
appendix C to subpart B of part 532,
under Colorado, under the subheading
‘‘Southern Colorado’’, under ‘‘Area of
Application. Survey area plus:’’, remove
the entry for Montrose.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
7 CFR Parts 319 and 361
[Docket No. APHIS–2008–0071]
RIN 0579–AD47
Importation of Plants for Planting
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
We are amending the
regulations on importing plants for
planting to add Turkey to the list of
countries from which the importation of
restricted articles of Chrysanthemum
spp., Leucanthemella serotina, and
Nipponanthemum nipponicum into the
United States is prohibited due to the
presence of white rust of
Chrysanthemum; to require permits for
the importation of any seed that is
coated, pelleted, or embedded in a
substrate that obscures visibility; to
provide for an alternate additional
declaration on phytosanitary certificates
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that accompany articles imported from
a country in which potato cyst
nematodes are known to occur; to
provide conditions for the importation
of Prunus spp. articles from Canada that
address the presence of plum pox
potyvirus in that country; and to
provide for the importation of Dianthus
spp. (carnations) from the Netherlands.
We are also making other changes to
update and clarify the regulations and to
improve their effectiveness. These
changes are necessary to relieve
restrictions that appear unnecessary, to
update existing provisions, and to make
the regulations easier to understand and
implement.
DATES: Effective January 15, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Heather Coady, Regulatory Policy
Specialist, Plants for Planting Policy,
PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 133,
Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851–2076.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The regulations in 7 CFR part 319
prohibit or restrict the importation of
certain plants and plant products into
the United States to prevent the
introduction of quarantine plant pests.
The regulations contained in ‘‘Subpart—
Plants for Planting,’’ §§ 319.37 through
319.37–14 (referred to below as the
regulations), restrict among other things,
the importation of living plants, plant
parts, and seeds for propagation or
planting.
On February 12, 2013, we published
in the Federal Register (78 FR 9851–
9865, Docket No. APHIS–2008–0071) a
proposed rule 1 to amend various
provisions of the regulations.
We solicited comments concerning
our proposal for 60 days ending April
15, 2013. We received eight comments
by that date. They were from the
national plant protection organization
(NPPO) of a foreign country, an
organization representing wholesale
exporters of plants for planting from a
foreign country, a national organization
that represents State departments of
agriculture, a State department of
agriculture, a national organization
representing gardeners within the
United States, and private citizens. The
1 To view the proposed rule, its supporting
documents, or the comments that we received, go
to https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=
APHIS-2008-0071.
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comments that we received are
discussed below, by topic.
Comments Regarding ‘‘Bulb’’ and
‘‘Dormant Herbaceous Perennial’’
Section 319.37–1 contains definitions
of terms used in the regulations. Bulb is
defined in that section as: ‘‘The portion
of a plant commonly known as a bulb,
bulbil, bulblet, corm, cormel, rhizome,
tuber, or pip, and including fleshy roots
or other underground fleshy growths, a
unit of which produces an individual
plant.’’
In the proposed rule, we proposed to
revise the definition of bulb. As we
proposed to revise it, the definition
would have been: ‘‘The storage organ of
a plant that serves as the plant’s sexual
structure during dormancy. Examples
include bulbs, bulbils, bulblets, corms,
and cormels. For purposes of this
subpart, a bulb remains a bulb until
such time as environmental conditions
induce it to produce shoots. It is then
considered a plant.’’ We proposed this
revision based on our belief that certain
of the types of plant parts provided in
the definition as examples of bulbs were
actually better categorized as dormant
herbaceous perennials.
For that reason, we also proposed to
add a definition of dormant herbaceous
perennial to the regulations. We
proposed to define dormant herbaceous
perennial in the following manner:
‘‘Except for bulbs, the portions of an
herbaceous perennial that remain after
the above-ground parts of the plant have
died back to the earth after the growing
season and the plant remains dormant.
Examples include rhizomes, tubers,
tuberous roots, pips, fleshy roots,
divisions, and underground fleshy
growths. For purposes of this subpart,
dormant herbaceous perennials remain
dormant herbaceous perennials until
such time as environmental conditions
induce them to sprout. They are then
considered plants.’’
Two commenters asked whether it
was our intent to retroactively apply the
term dormant herbaceous perennial to
certain articles that are currently
authorized importation into the United
States as bulbs. If so, the commenters
asked whether this change in
nomenclature would have any impact
on preclearance programs or port-offirst-arrival procedures for the articles.
The commenters also expressed concern
that adding a definition of dormant
herbaceous perennial to the regulations
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under 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.
The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by the Superintendent of Documents.
Prices of new books are listed in the first FEDERAL REGISTER issue of each
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
5 CFR Part 532
Prevailing Rate Systems
CFR Correction
0
In Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 1 to 699, revised
as of January 1, 2014, on page 445, in appendix C to subpart B of part
532, under Colorado, under the subheading ``Southern Colorado'', under
``Area of Application. Survey area plus:'', remove the entry for
Montrose.
[FR Doc. 2014-29465 Filed 12-15-14; 8:45 am]
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