2018-20296: Removal of Emerald Ash Borer Domestic Quarantine Regulations
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We are proposing to remove the domestic quarantine regulations for the plant pest emerald ash borer. This action would discontinue the domestic regulatory component of the emerald ash borer program as a means to more effectively direct available resources toward management and containment of the pest. Funding previously allocated to the implementation and enforcement of these domestic quarantine regulations would instead be directed to a nonregulatory option of research into, and deployment of, biological control agents for emerald ash borer, which would serve as the primary tool to mitigate and control the pest.
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What this changes
Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
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