# Imported Fire Ant; Additions to the List of Quarantined Areas
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Affirmation of interim rule as final rule. · Published 2008-02-05 · Effective 2008-02-05 · 73 FR 6577
## Document
- **Document number:** E8-2048
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 6577
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2008-02-05
- **Effective date:** 2008-02-05
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2007-0114
## Abstract

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the imported fire ant regulations by designating as quarantined areas all or portions of 2 counties in Arkansas, 3 in North Carolina, and 3 in Tennessee, by expanding the quarantined area in 1 county in Arkansas and 15 in Tennessee, and by designating the entire State of South Carolina as a quarantined area. The interim rule was necessary to prevent the artificial spread of imported fire ant to noninfested areas of the United States. As a result of the interim rule, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those quarantined areas is restricted.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/02/05/E8-2048/imported-fire-ant-additions-to-the-list-of-quarantined-areas)
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