---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 301.48-2"
title: "7"
number: "301.48-2"
heading: "Authorization to designate, and terminate designation of, regulated airports."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/301.48-2"
---

# §301.48-2. Authorization to designate, and terminate designation of, regulated airports.

- (a) An inspector may declare any airport within a quarantined State to be a regulated airport when he or she determines that adult populations of Japanese beetle exist during daylight hours at the airport to the degree that aircraft constitute a threat to spread the Japanese beetle and aircraft destined for the States listed in [§ 301.48(b)](/cfr/7/301.48.md?p=b) may be leaving the airport.
- (b) An inspector shall terminate the designation provided for under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section when he or she determines that adult populations of Japanese beetle no longer exist at the airport to the degree that the aircraft pose a threat to spread the Japanese beetle.

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 24035, Apr. 24, 1979, as amended at 61 FR 32640, June 25, 1996]

### Source

Source: 44 FR 24035, Apr. 24, 1979, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 84 FR 2428, Feb. 7, 2019.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701-7772 and 7781-7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. Section 301.75-15 issued under Sec. 204, Title II, Public Law 106-113, 113 Stat. 1501A-293; sections 301.75-15 and 301.75-16 issued under Sec. 203, Title II, Public Law 106-224, 114 Stat. 400 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note).

### Amendments

[44 FR 24035, Apr. 24, 1979, as amended at 61 FR 32640, June 25, 1996]