# Imported Fire Ant; Addition to Quarantined Areas
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Affirmation of interim rule as final rule. · Published 2001-04-20 · Effective 2000-11-06 · 66 FR 20186
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-9793
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 20186
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2001-04-20
- **Effective date:** 2000-11-06
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 00-076-2
## Abstract

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the imported fire ant regulations by adding additional areas in Tennessee to the list of quarantined areas. As a result of that action, 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. In the interim rule, we also made nonsubstantive changes to the descriptions of some of the quarantined areas in Tennessee to make them easier to understand.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/04/20/01-9793/imported-fire-ant-addition-to-quarantined-areas)
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