corn, hay, straw, fodder and plant litter of any kind; seed cotton, used farm tools and implements, burlap bags, cotton picking sacks, and other farm products. The regulated areas include parts of the States of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

(11) Witch weed. Federal Quarantine No. 80: Prohibits movement from the regulated area, unless accompanied by Federal certificates or permits, of soil, nursery stock and other plants with roots attached, bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers, root crops, seed cotton, tobacco, peanuts in shells, ear corn, soybeans, and small grains. The regulated areas include parts of North Carolina and South Carolina.

(12) Imported fire ant. Federal Quarantine No. 81: Prohibits movement, unless accompanied by Federal certificates or permits, of soil, plants with soil, grass sod, and forest products. The regulated areas include parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.

(13) Peach mosaic. Standard State quarantines on account of the peach mosaic disease prohibit, except when accompanied by certificates issued by authorized officials of the States of origin, the movement of all peach, plum, prune, nectarine, apricot and almond trees, and propagative parts except fruit pits, into, within or from Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

(14) Phony peach. Standard State quarantines on account of the Phony peach disease prohibit, except when accompanied by certificates issued by authorized officials of the States of origin, the movement of all almond, apricot, nectarine, peach, and plum nursery stock into, within or from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi and parts of Arkansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

(15) Sweetpotato weevil. Live sweetpotato weevils in any stage of development may be accepted for mailing only when accompanied by a permit issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, State sweetpotato weevil quarantines of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas prohibit movement from regulated areas of sweetpotatoes (tubers) and sweetpo

tato

and morningglory (Impomoea) plants and parts thereof, including vines, cuttings, draws, and roots, unless they are accompanied by sweetpotato weevil quarantine or inspection certificates issued by authorized inspectors of the States of origin. The regulated areas include parts of the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.

(16) Cereal leaf beetle. Standard State quarantines on account of the cereal leaf beetle prohibit, except when accompanied by certificates issued by authorized officials of the State of origin, the movement of grain, uncleaned grass and forage crop seed, hay, straw, fodder, and plant litter of any kind, and sod. The regulated areas include parts of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

Detailed information regarding these quarantines may be obtained by writing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

(c) Plant quarantines applying to Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Federal plant quarantines prohibit the shipment by mail or otherwise from Hawaii and Puerto Rico of the following plants and plant products into or through any other State, Territory, or District of the United States: Sugarcane or cuttings or parts thereof, or sugarcane leaves (Quarantine No. 16, revised), except that bagasse may be shipped under permit when accompanied by certificates issued by Federal plant quarantine inspectors for such shipment, or by special green and yellow mailing tags furnished by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine Division, and bearing the address of one of the following stations of that Bureau: Hoboken, N.J., San Francisco, Calif., Laredo, Tex., and Seattle, Wash.; also prohibited are sweetpotatoes, except under permit or certificate from an inspector of the Territory of Puerto Rico (Quarantine No. 30, revised); cotton, seed cotton, cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, cake and meal, cotton waste, and bale covers, except under certificate or permit issued by an inspector of the Plant Quarantine Division in the Territory, District, or Insular Possession of origin (Quarantine No. 47); sand (other than clean ocean sand), soil, or earth around the roots of plants (Quarantine No. 60). Fruits and vegetables in the natural or raw state from Puerto Rico and fruits and vegetables in the natural or raw state, peel of fruits of all citrus and citrus relatives,

certain cut flowers, rice straw, and mango seeds from Hawaii are prohibited from moving into or through any other State, Territory, or District of the United States; except that certificates may be issued by Federal plant quarantine inspectors for the shipment from Hawaii of specified fruits and vegetables on special determination in each case (Quarantine No. 13) and, for shipment from Puerto Rico, of grapefruit, oranges, and other citrus fruits, pineapples, bananas, plaintains, avocados, dasheens, sweet corn on cob, and certain other articles, on special determination in each case (Quarantine No. 58). The regulations do not however apply to the shipment from Puerto Rico of coconuts either in, or free from, the husk when shipped through the mail without wrapping or packing as individual parcels. Federal permits are required from Hawaii and Puerto Rico to ship cotton, cottonmill waste, and cottonseed cake, meal, and other cottonseed products other than oil, except that samples of raw or unmanufactured ginned cotton, including cottonmill waste, and samples of cottonseed cake and meal may be shipped by parcel post when the parcels are securely wrapped to prevent leakage and are conspicuously addressed to the Plant Quarantine Division at Hoboken, N.J., San Francisco, Calif., or Seattle, Wash. The name and address of the ultimate addressee must be indicated in the lower left corner. Upon arrival of such parcels at the Plant Quarantine Division they will be examined and fumigated and forwarded to the ultimate addressee under the original postage (Quarantine No. 47).

(d) Plant materials to, from, and between certain territories and possessions (1) From Canal Zone and Samoa. Plant material from Tutuila, Manua, and the Canal Zone moving to the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico is subject to the plant quarantines that affect the importation of plant material from foreign countries.

(2) Islands in the Trust Territory of the Pacific. Plants and plant materials, including fruits and vegetables, and living cultures of bacteria, fungi or viruses are subject to plant quarantines established by the government of the Trust Territory. Plants and plant materials originating in the Trust Territory, when moving within the Territory, may require a plant and animal quarantine permit issued by a local District Agriculturist.

Items originating outside the Trust Territory should be accompanied with a dispatch permit issued by the Staff Entomologist or Director of Agriculture of the Trust Territory.

(e) Terminal inspection for plants and plant products-(1) States and Territories, Requiring Inspection. Packages containing plants and plant products addressed to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Puerto Rico, Utah, Washington and islands in the Trust Territory of the Pacific must be examined by State inspectors at the places listed in § 124.4(e) (6). The packages must be plainly marked on the outside to show the exact nature of their contents.

(2) Addressee must pay additional postage. The addressee must pay postage to send the package to the inspection place and must arrange with the State plant inspector to pay postage to return the package to the office of address after inspection.

(3) Packages addressed in care of State plant inspector. Packages may be addressed in care of a State plant inspector at a place other than where the addressee lives. The addressee must arrange for the inspector to pay postage to forward the package to the addressee after inspection.

(4) Disposition of infected shipments. When the inspector finds that plants or plant products are infested or infected with injurious insects or diseases and are incapable of satisfactory treatment, or they are found to have been moved in violation of a plant quarantine law or regulation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or of the State or Territory of destination pertaining to such injurious pests, parcels will be returned to the sender and payment of postage for return collected on delivery. If the sender has marked the parcel to be abandoned, if undelivered, the package will be turned over to State authorities for destruction.

(5) Information about quarantines. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, Washington and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands have arranged for enforcement of some State quarantines. When regulated plants or plant products are found to have been mailed in violation of quarantines, delivery may be withheld. Summaries of those quarantines may be obtained from the Plant Quarantine Division, Agricultural Research Service,

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

(6) List of products and places of inspection—(i) Alabama-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All sweetpotato roots, tubers, plants and vines, and parts thereof, which are not accompanied by a valid certificate tag issued by the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries; and other vines, trees, and shrubs, and cuttings and grafts thereof, and strawberry plants, which are not accompanied by a valid nursery inspection certificate of the State of origin.

Terminal inspection place-Birmingham.

(ii) Arizona-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propagation, except vegetable and flower seeds.

Terminal inspection places

(iii) Arkansas-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. Sweetpotatoes, sweetpotato plants, vines, draws, and slips.

NOTE: Under a State quarantine on account of the sweetpotato weevil, the articles named are prohibited entry into Arkansas unless accompanied by an inspection certificate issued by the State of origin showing the plants and plant products to be free of infestation. Parcels accompanied by a certificate will be delivered to the addresses without inspection. Parcels not accompanied with a certificate will be returned to the office of mailing endorsed: Unmailable-Not accompanied with required certificate. Postage will be collected for return.

Brawley.

Broderick.

Bryn Mawr. Burlingame.

Calexico.

Calipatria.
Calistoga.

Camarillo.
Carpinteria.
Chico.
Chino.

Chowchilla.

Chula Vista.

Clovis.

Coachella.

Colfax.

Colma.

Colton.

Colusa.

Concord.

Corcoran.
Corning.
Corona.
Cucamonga.
Cutler.
Daly City.
Davis.
Delano,
Del Rosa.
Diamond Springs.
Dinuba.

Dorris.
Dos Palos.

Ducor.
Earlimart.

East Highlands.

Livingston.

Lodi.

(v) Caroline Islands. See Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

(vi) District of Columbia-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state, except vegetable and flower seeds and succulent plants such as tomato, pepper, and cabbage.

Inspection place-Washington, D.C.

(vii) Florida-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All florists' stock such as plants of dieffenbachia, dracaena, and philodendron; trees, shrubs, and vines of a woody nature such as rose bushes, hibiscus plants, grape and blackberry vines, and the cuttings, grafts, scions, and buds of all such plants; sweetpotato and orchid plants.

(viii) Hawaii-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, and other plants and plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state, except vegetable and flower seeds.

Inspection place-Honolulu.

(ix) Idaho-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state, except vegetable and flower seeds and succulent plants such as tomato, pepper, and cabbage: Provided, That this list of plants and plant products shall not apply to plants and plant products shipped either under the certificate of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture.

NOTE: Asterisks show places to which parcels may be sent in care of a plant inspector for onward transmission to the ultimate addressee. Burley, Pocatello, and Rexburg terminal inspection points operate from September 15 through July 1 of each year. All other points operate on a year-round basis.

(x) Louisiana-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All seed sweetpotatoes and sweetpotato plants, if not accompanied by a certificate issued by an appropriate agricultural official of the State of origin declaring the true quality of the seed or plants contained in the shipment and showing the variety, lot number, and the year the sweetpotatoes were grown. Certification by the State of origin shall be based on specific requirements of inspection standards in the appropriate Louisiana certified seed regulation. Shippers should tie sweetpotato plants in bundles of approximately 100 with official tape issued by the official certification agency of the State of origin.

NOTE: All seed sweetpotatoes and sweetpotato plants from any place in the State of Alabama or Georgia, whether or not accompanied by a certificate, are subject to terminal inspection.

Terminal inspection place-Monroe.

(xi) Mariana Islands. See Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

(xii) Marshall Islands. See Territory of the Pacific Islands.

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(xiii) Minnesota-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. All wild and cultivated trees, shrubs, and woody vines; perennial roots, such as peonies and iris; small-fruit plants, such as strawberries and raspberries; herbaceous perennials, such as hollyhocks and other hardy flowering plants; cuttings, buds, grafts, and scions for or capable of propagation.

Inspection place-St. Paul.

(xiv) Mississippi-Plants and plant products subject to inspection. Sweetpotatoes, sweetpotato plants, vines, and cuttings; morning glory vines and roots, and tomato plants: Provided, That this

list of plants and plant products shall not apply to any of the above plants, roots, or tubers, the shipment of which originates within the State of Mississippi and are addressed to places within the State, when accompanied with a certificate of inspection issued by the State plant board of Mississippi. The importation of tomato plants from other States is prohibited.

NOTE: Sweetpotato tubers, plants, vines, cuttings, draws, and slips and morning glory plants are regulated and will not be permitted entry from the States of Alabama and Georgia unless the duly authorized plant inspection official of the State of origin has filed with the State Plant Board of Mississippi a Certificate of Inspection certifying that it has been determined by competent, official survey that the regulated products were inspected during their growing period and were found to be free of the sweetpotato mosaic and that this virus disease is not known to exist in the county or parish in which the products were grown or originated. Terminal inspection places