# Special Need Requests Under the Plant Protection Act
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2008-10-23 · Effective 2008-11-24 · 73 FR 63060
## Document
- **Document number:** E8-25291
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 63060
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 301
- **Publication date:** 2008-10-23
- **Effective date:** 2008-11-24
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2005-0103
## Abstract

We are amending our domestic quarantine regulations to establish a process by which a State or political subdivision of a State could request approval to impose prohibitions or restrictions on the movement in interstate commerce of specific articles that are in addition to the prohibitions and restrictions imposed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The Plant Protection Act provides that States or political subdivisions of States may make such special need requests, but there are currently no procedures in place for their submission or consideration. This action establishes a process by which States may make a special need request.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/10/23/E8-25291/special-need-requests-under-the-plant-protection-act)
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