[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7 volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR319.8]

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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_Foreign Cotton and Covers
 
Sec. 319.8  Notice of quarantine.

                               Quarantine


    (a) Pursuant to sections 411-414 and 434 of the Plant Protection Act 
(7 U.S.C. 7711-7714 and 7754), and after the public hearing required 
thereunder, the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service hereby determines that the unrestricted importation into the 
United States from all foreign countries and localities of (1) any parts 
or products of plants of the genus Gossypium, including seed cotton; 
cottonseed; cotton lint, linters, and other forms of cotton fiber (not 
including yarn, thread, and cloth); cottonseed hulls, cake, meal, and 
other cottonseed products, except oil; cotton waste, including gin waste 
and thread waste; and any other unmanufactured parts of cotton plants; 
and (2) second-hand burlap and other fabrics, shredded or otherwise, 
which have been used or are of the kinds ordinarily used, for containing 
cotton, grains (including grain products), field seeds, agricultural 
roots, rhizomes, tubers, or other underground crops, may result in the 
entry into the United States of the pink bollworm (Pectinophora 
gossypiella (Saund.)), the golden nematode of potatoes Heterodera 
rostochiensis Wr.), the flag smut disease (Urocystis tritici Koern.), 
and other injurious plant diseases and insect pests, and said 
Administrator hereby further determines, that, in order to prevent the 
introduction into the United States of said plant diseases and insect 
pests, which are new to or not heretofore widely prevalent or 
distributed within and throughout the United States, it is necessary to 
forbid the importation into the United States of the plants and 
products, including fabrics, specified above, except as permitted in the 
regulations supplemental hereto. Hereafter the plants and products 
specified above shall not be imported or offered for entry into the 
United States from any foreign country or locality except as permitted 
by said regulations, and the plants and products permitted by the 
regulations to be imported or offered for entry shall be subject to 
sections 411-414 and 434 of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7711-7714 
and 7754). Provided, That whenever the Deputy Administrator of the Plant 
Protection and Quarantine Programs shall find the existing conditions as 
to pest risk involved in the importation of the articles to which the 
regulations supplemental hereto apply, make it safe to

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modify, by making less stringent the restrictions contained in any of 
such regulations, he shall publish such findings in the administrative 
instructions, specifying the manner in which the restrictions shall be 
made less stringent, whereupon such modification shall become effective; 
or he may, upon request in specific cases, when the public interests 
will permit, authorize such importation under conditions specified in 
the permit to carry out the purposes of this part that are less 
stringent than those contained in the regulations.
    (b) As used in this section the term ``United States'' shall have 
the meaning ascribed to it in the regulations supplemental hereto.

[24 FR 10788, Dec. 29, 1959, as amended at 36 FR 24917, Dec. 24, 1971; 
37 FR 10554, May 25, 1972; 66 FR 21054, Apr. 27, 2001]