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York Counties, Pa., and to bring in part of Cumberland County, Pa. Metropolitan 
New York localities and adjoining territory in Fairfield County, Conn., have 
been dropped from this area. 
In addition, a few minor changes have been made in the Japanese beetle 
quarantine regulations. These cover modifications of the regulations for fruit and 
vegetable shipments to isolated points and of requirements as to certification 
of bananas. 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
PART 301 DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES 
REVISION OF JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
The current revision of the Japanese beetle quarantine adds a proviso under 
which the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine may, when 
the facts as to pest risk so warrant, modify the requirements, by making them 
less stringent, as to one or more of the restricted articles, or as to certain 
periods of the year, or certain parts of the regulated areas. 
In the revision of the regulations, nominal extensions of regulated areas are 
made in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
Counties newly added in part or in entirety include Cayuga in New York; 
Crawford and Forest in Pennsylvania ; Greensville and Rappahannock in Vir- 
ginia ; and Marshall in West Virginia. The cities of Petersburg and Winchester, 
in Virginia, are also brought under regulation. Discovery of substantial infesta- 
tions of the Japanese beetle in these sections warranted their addition to the regu- 
lated areas. Additional enlargements of the regulated areas have been 
made to include the entire Maryland counties of Baltimore, Howard, 
Montgomery, and Wicomico, and additional areas in the counties of Car- 
roll, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, and Washington ; the entire Pennsylvania 
counties of Butler, Venango, and Warren, and parts of Erie and Mercer Counties : 
additional area in Chesterfield County, Va. ; and all of Ohio County in West 
Virginia. 
The area from which the movement of fruits and vegetables is regulated 
(§ 301.48-5) has been extended to include additional areas in Baltimore and 
Howard Counties, Md., and Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, and York Counties, 
Pa., and to bring in part of Cumberland County, Pa. The metropolitan New 
York localities and adjoining area in Fairfield County, Conn,, are no longer 
included in this area. 
Previous quarantine regulations required a certificate or permit for movement 
of fruits and vegetables from the area designated in § 301.48-5 to several iso- 
lated points in Maine, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West 
Virginia. This requirement as related to isolated points has been removed with 
the exception that a certificate is required for such movement to Toledo, Ohio, 
and Winchester, Va., when consigned via refrigerator car or motortruck, or in lot 
shipments of three pieces or more by common carrier. This section has been 
further revised to remove the exemption in regard to bananas. Bananas in any 
form moving from the area designated in § 301.48-5 via refrigerator car, or 
motortruck, or by common carrier in lot shipments of three pieces or more, 
require certification during the period specified. 
Current regulations require that refrigerator cars originating in the area 
designated in § 301.48-5 into which fruits or vegetables are to be loaded for 
interstate movement from any regulated area must be swept, cleaned, or fumi- 
gated by the common carrier prior to loading, and if used for loading fruits 
and vegetables in the area designated in that section, such cars must also bo 
kept tightly closed and sealed during the interval between fumigating or clean- 
ing and loading. Fruits and vegetables consigned from the area designated in 
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