1932] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 35 
The specific designation of treatment methods is removed from the quaran- 
tine regulations themselves and will be issued in the form of administrative 
instructions. This change is made for the purpose of rendering the regulations 
more flexible and more easily subject to modification when further research 
work results in the development of improved methods. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 62 
(Approved May 20, 1932 ; effective June 20, 1932) 
Under authority conferred by the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 
Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 
1134, 1165), it is ordered that regulation 3 of the revised rules and regulations 
supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 62, which were promulgated on April 
9, 1928, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : 
Regulation 3. Conditions Governing the Issuance of Permits 
Permits authorizing the interstate movement of narcissus bulbs may be 
issued by an inspector either {a) without treatment on determination that they 
are free from infestation [see section (a)], or (6) on condition that they have 
been treated as prescribed by the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration 
[see section (&)]. 
(a) Permits issued without treatment. — Permits may be issued for the inter- 
state movement of narcissus bulbs without treatment on determination by the 
inspector that the bulbs concerned and the planting in which they were grown 
are free from infestation with greater bulb flies and with eelworms. Such 
determination shall be based on one or more inspections of the growing narcissus 
in the field at or shortly after the close of the blossoming period and before the 
maturity and shriveling of the foliage, followed by inspection of the dormant 
bulbs in storage : Provided, That the Plant Quarantine and Control Administra- 
tion may authorize the issuance of permits in the absence of a field inspection 
in special cases where an intensive storage inspection of the bulbs to be shipped 
and of the other bulbs in the same planting by inspectors competent to deter- 
mine bulb-fly and eelworm infestation in such stored bulbs, shows freedom from 
infestation. Infestation with lesser bulb flies will not make the bulbs con- 
cerned ineligible for permits under this regulation. 
(b) The issuance of permits based on treatment. — Permits may be issued for 
the interstate movement of narcissus bulbs which have been found infested with 
greater bulb flies or with eelworms or which have not been given the inspection 
prescribed in section (a) hereof, on condition that the bulbs concerned shall 
have been given such treatment under the supervision of an inspector as may 
be authorized by the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration to eliminate 
infestation. In the event that equipment approved for the treatment prescribed 
in this regulation is not available within the State where the bulbs are grown, 
permits may be issued by the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration 
for the movement of such bulbs to a near-by State for treatment. Permits may 
be refused as to any lot of bulbs found by the inspector to be so heavily infested 
with greater bulb flies or eelworms that treatment would not in his judgment 
free them from infestation. 
(c) Narcissus-producing areas. — Any State may require, for the purpose of 
providing special protection for designated narcissus-producing areas, the treat- 
ment of all narcissus planted in or transported to such areas, whether interstate 
or intrastate, and while such a requirement is in effect the shipment of narcissus 
into such areas under a Federal permit issued under these regulations shall not 
render the bulbs concerned exempt from such treatment as a condition of 
planting in the said designated areas. 
(d) Infestations discovered after shipment. — Whenever narcissus bulbs which 
are being or have been moved interstate are discovered en route or at destina- 
tion to be infested with greater bulb flies or eelworms, any permit or certificate 
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