# Imported Fire Ant; Quarantined Areas and Treatment
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Affirmation of interim rule as final rule. · Published 2000-02-03 · Effective 1999-05-21 · 65 FR 5221
## Document
- **Document number:** 00-2380
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 65 FR 5221
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2000-02-03
- **Effective date:** 1999-05-21
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 98-125-2
## Abstract

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 three counties in California, two counties in Georgia, one county in New Mexico, four counties in North Carolina, and one county in Tennessee. As a result of the interim rule, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those areas is restricted. The interim rule was necessary to prevent the artificial spread of the imported fire ant to noninfested areas of the United States. The interim rule also amended the treatment provisions in the Appendix to the imported fire ant regulations by removing all references to the granular formulation of chlorpyrifos because it is no longer marketed for the treatment of grass sod or woody ornamentals.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/02/03/00-2380/imported-fire-ant-quarantined-areas-and-treatment)
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