[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: 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

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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 otherwise provided in this subpart, the importation 
into the United States of raw or unmanufactured corn seed and all other 
portions of Indian corn or maize and related plants, including all 
species of teosinte (Euchlaena), jobs-tears (Coix), Polytoca, 
Chionachne, and Sclerachne, from southeastern Asia (including India, 
Indochina, and the People's Republic of China), Malayan Archipelago, 
Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Philippine Islands, Manchuria, Japan, 
and adjacent islands is prohibited. However, this prohibition does not 
apply to importations of such items by the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture for scientific or experimental purposes. And further, when 
the public interests will permit, the Deputy Administrator of the Plant 
Protection and Quarantine Programs may, upon request in specific cases, 
authorize such importations into Guam under conditions specified in the 
permit that are less stringent than those contained in this subpart.
    (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 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; 
66 FR 21055, Apr. 27, 2001]