# Imported Fire Ant; Addition to Quarantined Areas
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Interim rule and request for comments. · Published 2000-11-06 · Effective 2000-11-06 · 65 FR 66487
## Document
- **Document number:** 00-28362
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 65 FR 66487
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2000-11-06
- **Effective date:** 2000-11-06
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 00-076-1
## Abstract

We are amending the imported fire ant regulations because infestations of imported fire ant have been discovered in additional areas in Tennessee. This action will quarantine two new counties and additional portions of four other counties. As a result of this action, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those areas will be restricted. This action is necessary to prevent the artificial spread of the imported fire ant to noninfested areas of the United States. We are also making nonsubstantive changes to the description of other quarantined areas in Tennessee to make them easier to understand.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/11/06/00-28362/imported-fire-ant-addition-to-quarantined-areas)
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