# Karnal Bunt; Restrictions on the Use of Grain Originating in a Regulated Area
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Affirmation of interim rule as final rule. · Published 2003-02-05 · Effective 2002-04-25 · 68 FR 5793
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-2684
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 5793
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2003-02-05
- **Effective date:** 2002-04-25
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 01-118-2
## Abstract

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the Karnal bunt regulations by prohibiting grain grown in a regulated area from being used as seed outside the regulated areas and by removing the requirement that wheat seed, durum wheat seed, and triticale seed that originates within a regulated area be treated with a fungicide before it may be planted within a regulated area. The interim rule was necessary to help to prevent the artificial spread of Karnal bunt to fields outside the regulated area and to remove a treatment requirement that we determined to be unnecessary.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/02/05/03-2684/karnal-bunt-restrictions-on-the-use-of-grain-originating-in-a-regulated-area)
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