[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: 7CFR330.102]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 330--FEDERAL PLANT PEST REGULATIONS; GENERAL; PLANT PESTS; SOIL, STONE, AND QUARRY PRODUCTS; GARBAGE--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart--General Provisions
 
Sec. 330.102  Basis for certain regulations.

    Whereas the unregulated movement of means of conveyance, their 
stores, baggage, mail, plants, plant products, garbage, earth, stone and 
quarry products, and other products and articles into or through the 
United States from places outside thereof or from any Territory or 
possession into or through any other Territory or possession or the 
continental United States may disseminate plant pests which are outside 
the scope of the Plant Quarantine Act, as well as pests within that act, 
and whereas authority to regulate the movement into or through the 
United States from foreign countries of means of conveyance and other 
nonplant products and articles, independently of plants or plant 
products, is not conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act, the regulations 
in this part are promulgated under the authority of the Federal Plant 
Pest Act.