[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR98.32]

[Page 565-566]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 98_IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN ANIMAL EMBRYOS AND ANIMAL SEMEN--Table 
of Contents
 
                     Subpart C_Certain Animal Semen
 
Sec. 98.32  Inspection of certain aircraft and other means of conveyance 

and shipping containers thereon; unloading, cleaning, and disinfection 
requirements.

    (a) Inspection: All aircraft and other means of conveyance 
(including shipping containers thereon) moving into the United States 
from any foreign region are subject to inspection without a warrant by 
properly identified and designated inspectors to determine whether they 
are carrying any animal, carcass, product or article regulated or 
subject to disposal under any law or regulation administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture for prevention of the introduction or 
dissemination of any communicable animal disease.

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    (b) Unloading requirements: Whenever in the course of any such 
inspection at any port in the United States the inspector has reason to 
believe that the means of conveyance or container is contaminated with 
material of animal (including poultry) origin, such as, but not limited 
to, meat, organs, glands, extracts, secretions, fat, bones, blood, 
lymph, urine, or manure, so as to present a danger of the spread of any 
communicable animal disease, the inspector may require the unloading of 
the means of conveyance and the emptying of the container if he or she 
deems it necessary to enable him or her to determine whether the means 
of conveyance or container is in fact so contaminated. The principal 
operator of the means of conveyance and his or her agent in charge of 
the means of conveyance shall comply with any such requirement under the 
immediate supervision of, and in the time and manner prescribed by, the 
inspector.
    (c) Cleaning and disinfection: Whenever, upon inspection under this 
section, an inspector determines that a means of conveyance or shipping 
container is contaminated with material of animal origin so as to 
present a danger of the spread of any communicable animal disease, he or 
she shall notify the principal operator of the means of conveyance or 
his or her agent in charge, of such determination and the requirements 
under this section. The person so notified shall cause the cleaning and 
disinfection of such means of conveyance and container under the 
immediate supervision of, and in the time and manner prescribed by, the 
inspector.
    (d) For purposes of this section, the term ``shipping container'' 
means any container of a type specially adapted for use in transporting 
any article on the means of conveyance involved.

[55 FR 31558, Aug. 2, 1990. Redesignated at 56 FR 55809, Oct. 30, 1991; 
62 FR 56026, Oct. 28, 1997; 68 FR 6345, Feb. 7, 2003]