# Asian Longhorned Beetle; Quarantined Areas in Massachusetts, Ohio, and New York
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Affirmation of interim rule as final rule. · Published 2012-09-21 · Effective 2012-09-21 · 77 FR 58469
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-23353
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 58469
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2012-09-21
- **Effective date:** 2012-09-21
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2012-0003
## Abstract

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the Asian longhorned beetle regulations by adding portions of Worcester County, MA, and Clermont County, OH, to the list of quarantined areas and by removing a portion of Suffolk County, NY, from the list of quarantined areas. The interim rule was necessary to prevent the artificial spread of Asian longhorned beetle to noninfested areas of the United States and to relieve restrictions on certain areas that were no longer necessary.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/09/21/2012-23353/asian-longhorned-beetle-quarantined-areas-in-massachusetts-ohio-and-new-york)
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