[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: 7CFR319.24]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 319--FOREIGN QUARANTINE NOTICES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart--Corn Diseases
 
Sec. 319.24  Notice of quarantine.

                               Quarantine


    (a) The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
and notice is hereby given, that maize or Indian corn (Zea mays L.) and 
closely related plants are subject to certain injurious diseases, 
especially Peronospora maydis Raciborski, Sclerospora sacchari Miyake 
and other downy mildews; also the Physoderma diseases of maize, 
Physoderma zeae-maydis Shaw, and Physoderma maydis Miyake, new to and 
not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the 
United States, and that these diseases occur in southeastern Asia 
(including India, Siam, Indo-China and China), Malayan Archipelago, 
Australia, Oceania, Philippine Islands, Formosa, Japan, and adjacent 
islands.
    (b) Except as provided for in paragraph (d) of this section for corn 
seed from New Zealand, on and after July 1, 1916, and until further 
notice, by virtue of section 7 of the act of Congress approved August 
20, 1912, known as the ``Plant Quarantine Act'' (37 Stat. 317; 7 U.S.C. 
160), the importation into the United States, in the raw or 
unmanufactured state, from southeastern Asia (including India, Siam 
Indo-China and China), Malayan Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, 
Oceania, Philippine Islands, Formosa, Manchuria, Japan, and adjacent 
islands, of seed and all other portions of Indian corn or maize (Zea 
mays L.), and the closely related plants, including all species of 
Teosinte (Euchlaena), jobs-tears (Coix), Polytoca, Chionachne, and 
Sclerachne, except for experimental or scientific purposes by the 
Department of Agriculture, except as provided in the regulations 
supplemental hereto, is prohibited: Provided, 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 
the articles to which the regulations supplemental thereto apply, make 
it safe to modify, by making less stringent, the restrictions contained 
in any of such regulations, he shall publish such findings in 
administrative instructions, specifying the manner in which the 
regulations shall be made less stringent, whereupon such modification 
shall become effective; or he may, when the public interests will 
permit, with respect to the importation of such articles into Guam, upon 
request in specific cases, authorize such importation under conditions, 
specified in the permit to carry out the purposes of this subpart, that 
are less stringent than those contained in the regulations.
    (c) 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.
    (d) Seed of Indian corn or maize (Zea mays L.) that is free from the 
cob and

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from all other parts of corn may be imported into the United States from 
New Zealand without further restriction.

[24 FR 10788, Dec. 29, 1959, as amended at 58 FR 44745, Aug. 25, 1993]