Witchweed; Regulated Areas

We are adopting as a final rule, with several changes, an interim rule that amended the witchweed quarantine and regulations by updating the list of regulated areas to add or remove areas in North Carolina and South Carolina. Based on information received from the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, this final rule adds two farms and removes four from the list of regulated areas that appeared in the interim rule. These actions are necessary to prevent the artificial spread of witchweed from areas where the weed has been detected and to remove restrictions that are no longer necessary on the interstate movement of regulated articles from areas where witchweed has been eradicated.