4 TAC §20.22
The Texas Department of Agriculture (the department) adopts
amendments to §20.22(a), concerning cotton stalk destruction deadlines,
without changes to the proposed text, as published in the May 12, 2006, issue
of the
Texas Register
(31 TexReg 3764). The
amendments are adopted to update the chart that lists pest management zones
and destruction deadlines to make it consistent with recent amendments to §20.20
which reclassified Pest Management Zone 5 as Zone 3, Area 3, and established
an October 20 destruction deadline for Zone 3, Area 3.
Amendments to the table are adopted to clarify October 20 as the destruction
deadline for Pest Management Zone 3, Area 3. Previously this deadline was
associated with the same geographic area when the geographic area was Pest
Management Zone 5. The amendments provide continuity in the destruction deadline
for producers in that geographic area.
No comments were received on the proposal.
The amendments to §20.22 are adopted in accordance with
the Texas Agriculture Code (the Code), §74.006, which provides the department
with the authority to adopt rules as necessary for the effective enforcement
and administration of Chapter 74, Subchapter A; and the Code, §74.004,
which provides the department with the authority to establish regulated areas,
dates and appropriate methods of destruction of stalks, other cotton parts
and products of host plants for cotton pests.
This agency hereby certifies that the adoption has been reviewed
by legal counsel and found to be a valid exercise of the agency's legal authority.
Filed with the Office of
the Secretary of State on June 19, 2006.
TRD-200603358
Dolores Alvarado Hibbs
Deputy General Counsel
Texas Department of Agriculture
Effective date: July 9, 2006
Proposal publication date: May 12, 2006
For further information, please call: (512) 463-4075