[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5, Parts 200 to 399]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR318.47]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 318--HAWAIIAN AND TERRITORIAL QUARANTINE NOTICES--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart--Territorial Cotton, Cottonseed, and Cottonseed Products
 
Sec. 318.47  Notice of quarantine.

                               Quarantine


    (a) The Secretary of Agriculture having previously quarantined 
Hawaii and Puerto Rico on account of the pink bollworm of cotton 
(Pectinophora gossypiella Saunders) and the cotton blister mite 
(Eriophyes gossypii Banks), insect pests new to and not widely prevalent 
or distributed within and throughout the United States, now determines 
that it is necessary to extend the quarantine to prevent the spread of 
these insects from the Virgin Islands of the United States, where they 
are known to occur.
    (b) Under authority conferred by section 8 of the Plant Quarantine 
Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U.S.C. 161) and having given the 
public hearing required thereunder, the Secretary of Agriculture hereby 
quarantines the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands 
of the United States to prevent the spread of the said insect pests.
    (c) All parts and products of plants of the genus Gossypium, such as 
seeds including seed cotton; cottonseed; cotton lint, linters, and other 
forms of cotton fiber; cottonseed hulls, cake, meal, and other 
cottonseed products, except oil; cotton waste; and all other 
unmanufactured parts of cotton plants; and all second-hand burlap and 
other fabric which have been used, or are of the kinds ordinarily used, 
for wrapping or containing cotton, are hereby prohibited movement from 
the Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States 
into or through any other State, Territory or District of the United 
States, in manner or method or under conditions other than those 
prescribed in the regulations hereinafter made or amendments thereto: 
Provided, That whenever the Deputy Administrator of the Plant Protection 
and Quarantine Programs shall find that existing conditions as to the 
pest risk involved in the movement of the articles to which the 
regulations supplemental hereto apply, make it

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safe to modify, by making less stringent, the restrictions contained in 
any such regulations, he shall set forth and publish such findings in 
administrative instructions, specifying the manner in which the 
regulations should be made less stringent, whereupon such modification 
shall become effective.
    (d) As used in this subpart, unless the context otherwise requires, 
the term State, Territory, or District of the United States means State, 
the District of Columbia, Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the 
Virgin Islands of the United States.