[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: 7CFR355.21]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 355--ENDANGERED SPECIES REGULATIONS CONCERNING TERRESTRIAL PLANTS 1, 2--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart--Inspections and Related Provisions
 
Sec. 355.21  Marking and mailing requirements for plants imported, exported, or reexported by mail.\5\

    (a) Any terrestrial plant which is to be imported by mail and which 
may be imported under 50 CFR part 17 or part 23 only if accompanied by 
documentation, shall be mailed to Plant Protection and Quarantine (at a 
port authorized for such purpose by the U.S. Department of the Interior 
in 50 CFR part 24 pursuant to section 9(f) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1538 
(f))); and shall be accompanied by a separate sheet of paper within the 
package plainly and correctly bearing the name, address, and telephone 
number of the intended recipient in the United States; and shall plainly 
and correctly bear on the outer container the following information:
    (1) Genus and species, and quantity of each (if a hybrid, genus of 
each parent, and quantity of each hybrid),
    (2) Country and locality where collected from the wild or where 
produced from cultivated stock,
    (3) Name and address of shipper, owner, or person shipping or 
forwarding the plants, and
    (4) Serial number and type (e.g. permit, certificate) of document 
issued for the importation of the plant.
    (b) Any terrestrial plant which is to be exported or reexported by 
mail and which may be exported or reexported under 50 CFR part 17 or 
part 23 only if accompanied by documentation, shall be mailed to Plant 
Protection and Quarantine (at a port authorized for such purpose by the 
U.S. Department of the Interior in 50 CFR part 24 pursuant to section 
9(f) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1538(f))); shall be wrapped in double 
wrapping, with an unsealed inner wrapping addressed to the foreign 
recipient and bearing sufficient postage for mailing to the foreign 
destination; shall be accompanied by a separate sheet of paper within 
the package plainly and correctly bearing the following information:
    (1) Genus and species, and quantity of each (if a hybrid, genus of 
each parent, and quantity of each hybrid),
    (2) Country and locality where collected from the wild or where 
produced from cultivated stock,
    (3) Name and address in the United States of shipper, owner, or 
person shipping or forwarding the plants, and
    (4) Serial number and type (e.g. permit, certificate) of document 
issued for the exportation or reexportation of the plant.

(Information collection requirements were approved by the Office of 
Budget and Management under control number 0579-0076)