[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR318.30a]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 318--HAWAIIAN AND TERRITORIAL QUARANTINE NOTICES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart--Sweetpotatoes
 
Sec. 318.30a  Administrative instructions authorizing movement from Puerto Rico of certain sweetpotatoes grown under specified conditions.

    The Deputy Administrator of the Plant Protection and Quarantine 
Programs hereby finds that facts exist as to the pest risk involved in 
the movement of sweetpotatoes to which Sec. 318.30 applies, making it 
safe to modify by making less stringent the requirements of Sec. 318.30 
with respect to washed sweetpotatoes graded by inspectors of the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in accordance with Puerto Rican standards 
which do not provide a tolerance for insect infestation or evidence of 
insect injury and found by such inspectors to comply with such 
standards. Hereafter, in addition to movement authorized under 
Sec. 318.30(c), such sweetpotatoes will be eligible for inspection by a 
Branch inspector to determine whether they are free of the sweetpotato 
scarabee (Euscepes postfasciatus Fairm.) and for certification for 
movement from Puerto Rico to Baltimore, Maryland, and Atlantic Coast 
ports north thereof if found free of such insect, provided the 
sweetpotatoes are certified by an inspector of the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico as having been so washed and graded and as having been grown 
in accordance with the following procedures:

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    (a) Fields in which the sweetpotatoes have been grown shall have 
been given a preplanting treatment with an approved soil insecticide.
    (b) Before planting in such treated fields, the sweetpotoato draws 
and vine cuttings shall have been dipped in an approved insecticidal 
solution.
    (c) During the growing season an approved insecticide shall have 
been applied to the vines at prescribed intervals.

The sweetpotatoes shall be inspected by an inspector of the Plant 
Protection and Quarantine Programs prior to shipment from Puerto Rico.