[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: 7CFR351.3]

[Page 420]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 351--IMPORTATION OF PLANTS OR PLANT PRODUCTS BY MAIL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 351.3  Procedure on arrival.

    All parcel post or other mail packages from foreign countries which, 
either from examination or external evidence, are found or are believed 
to contain plants or plant products, shall be dispatched for submission, 
or actually submitted, to the plant quarantine inspector at the most 
accessible location listed in Sec. 351.2. The inspector shall pass upon 
the contents under the Plant Quarantine Act and Federal Plant Pest Act 
and with the cooperation of the customs and postal officers either
    (a) Release the package from further plant quarantine examination 
and endorse his decision thereon; or
    (b) Divert it to the Plant Quarantine Station at Washington, DC, 
Brownsville, Tex., Hoboken, N.J., Honolulu, Hawaii, Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., 
Laredo, Tex., Miami, Fla., New Orleans, La., San Francisco, Calif., San 
Juan, P.R., San Pedro, Calif., or Seattle, Wash., for whatever 
disposition is deemed warranted. If so diverted, the plant quarantine 
inspector shall attach to the package the yellow and green special 
mailing tag addressed to the proper quarantine station. A package so 
diverted shall be accompanied by customs card Form 3511 and transmitted 
to the appropriate Customs office for referral to the Plant Quarantine 
Station. Envelopes containing customs card Form 3511 addressed to the 
collector of customs, New York, N.Y., shall contain a notation that the 
material is to be referred to the Plant Protection and Quarantine 
Programs, Hoboken, N.J.

[24 FR 9923, Dec. 9, 1959, as amended at 28 FR 5204, May 24, 1963, as 
amended at 36 FR 24917, Dec. 24, 1971]