Incorporation by Reference; Plant Protection and Quarantine Treatment Manual

SUMMARY: This document withdraws the direct final rule that would have

allowed the use of high temperature forced air treatments for

grapefruit and mangoes imported from Mexico. The treatments were to be

included in the Plant Protection and Quarantine Treatment Manual, which

is incorporated by reference into the Code of Federal Regulations. This

action is necessary because we received an adverse written comment in

response to the direct final rule.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 21, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Frank Cooper, Senior Operations

Officer, Plant Protection and Quarantine, APHIS, USDA, room 635,

Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, (301) 436-

6799.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

In a direct final rule published in the Federal Register on March

1, 1994 (59 FR 9613-9614, Docket No. 93-028-2), we notified the public

of our intent to allow the use of high temperature forced air

treatments for grapefruit and mangoes imported from Mexico. The

treatments were to be included in the Plant Protection and Quarantine

Treatment Manual, which is incorporated by reference into the Code of

Federal Regulations.

We solicited comments concerning the direct final rule for a 30-day

period ending March 31, 1994. We stated that the effective date of the

proposed amendment would be 60 days after publication of the direct

final rule in the Federal Register, unless we received written adverse

comments or written notice of intent to submit adverse comments by the

close of the comment period. We also stated that if we received written

adverse comments or written notice of intent to submit adverse

comments, we would publish a notice in the Federal Register withdrawing

the direct final rule before the scheduled effective date and would

publish a proposed rule for public comment.

We received one written adverse comment from a representative of

the citrus industry. Therefore, we are withdrawing the direct final

rule, and, at a later date, we will publish a proposed rule in the

Federal Register.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 150ee, 154, 161, 162, 167; 7 CFR 2.17, 2.51,

and 371.2(c).

Done in Washington, DC, this 15th day of April 1994.

Charles P. Schwalbe,

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

[FR Doc. 94-9625 Filed 4-2-94; 8:45 am]

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