[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: 7CFR319.15] [Page 208] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 319--FOREIGN QUARANTINE NOTICES--Table of Contents Subpart--Sugarcane Sec. 319.15 Notice of quarantine. (a) On and after October 1, 1934, under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act approved August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315; 7 U.S.C. 151-167), as amended, the importation into the United States of canes of sugarcane, or cuttings or parts thereof, sugarcane leaves, the bagasse, from all foreign countries and localities, is prohibited: Provided, That this prohibition shall not apply to importations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for scientific or experimental purposes, nor to importations of specific materials which the Department may authorize under permit on condition that they have been or are to be so treated, processed, or manufactured that, in the judgment of the Department, their entry will involve no pest risk: Provided further, That whenever the Deputy Administrator of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs shall find that existing conditions as to pest risk involved in the importation of bagasse and related sugarcane products into Guam, make it safe to modify by making less stringent the restrictions of this section with respect to such importation, he shall publish such finding in administrative instructions, specifying the manner in which the restrictions shall be made less stringent and imposing such conditions on such importation as he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, whereupon such modification shall become effective. (b) As used in this subpart, unless the context otherwise requires, the term ``United States'' means the States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States.