[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5, Parts 200 to 399]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 7CFR319.8-23]

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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--Foreign Cotton and Covers
 
Sec. 319.8-23  Treatment.

    (a)(1) Vacuum fumigation as required in this subpart shall consist 
of fumigation, in a vacuum fumigation plant approved by the Deputy 
Administrator of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs, under the 
supervision of an inspector and to his satisfaction. Continued approval 
of the plant will be contingent upon the granting by the operator 
thereof, to the inspector, of access to all parts of the plant at all 
reasonable hours for the purpose of supervising sanitary and other 
operating conditions, checking the efficacy of the apparatus and 
chemical operations, and determining that wastage has been cleaned up 
and disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the inspector; and upon the 
maintenance at the plant of conditions satisfactory to the inspector.
    (2) After cotton and covers have been vacuum fumigated they shall be 
so marked under the supervision of an inspector. Such material may 
thereafter be distributed, forwarded, or shipped without further plant 
quarantine entry restriction.
    (3) Cotton and covers held by an importer for vacuum fumigation must 
be stored under conditions satisfactory to the inspector.
    (4) Prompt vacuum fumigation of cotton and covers (other than high 
density cotton free of surface contamination) will be required at non-
northern ports. Similar prompt vacuum fumigation will be required at 
Norfolk, Virginia, during the period June 15 to October 15 of each year, 
except for covers which have been used to contain only lint, linters, or 
waste, and the bales of which are compressed to a density of 28 or more 
pounds per cubic foot and are free of surface contamination.
    (b) An inspector may authorize the substitution of processing, 
utilization, or other form of treatment for vacuum fumigation when in 
his opinion such other treatment, selected by him from administratively 
authorized procedures, will be effective in eliminating infestation of 
the pink bollworm.