40 PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [April-June 
Regulation 5. Control of Movement of Cotton and Other Articles 
section a. cotton lint 
(1) Pertnits required. — Cotton lint shall not be moved or allowed to be moved 
interstate from a regulated area to or through any point outside thereof 
unless a permit shall have been issued therefor by the United States Department 
of Agriculture. 
(2) Conditions governing the issuance of permits. — Permits authorizing the 
interstate movement of cotton lint, linters, and samples, may be issued upon 
condition that the material has been produced in a gin in which all cottonseed 
is sterilized in manner and by method satisfactory to the inspector, that it has 
been so ginned as to prevent the inclusion of cottonseed, that it has been pro- 
tected in a manner satisfactory to the inspector from contamination with cot- 
tonseed, and that it has, in addition, been given such compression, fumiga- 
tion, or other treatment as may be prescribed in the following paragraphs : 
(a) If the material was produced in areas in which pink bollworm infesta- 
tion is so light that in the judgment of the Plant Quarantine and Control Ad- 
ministration fumigation may be omitted, permits may be issued on condition 
that the material either has been given standard or high-density compression 
and when ready for transportation has a density of at least 22 pounds to the 
cubic foot, or has been passed through special roller equipment in such a 
manner that in the judgment of the inspector all cottonseed and larvae therein 
would be crushed. 
(6) If the material has been produced in regulated areas in which the in- 
festation is not as light as prescribed in paragraph (a), fumigation under 
vacuum under the direction of and in a manner satisfactory to the inspector 
will also be required. 
(c) If the material consists of samples, grabbots, flues, picker waste, motes, 
round bales, or any form of unmanufactured cotton fiber other than commer- 
cial square bales of lint and linters, one or more of the following treatments 
may be required by the inspector : Vacuum fumigation, standard or high- 
density compression, or passing through special roller equipment. 
(d) Cotton lint, delint, samples, and grabbots, produced by any oil mill located 
outside the regulated areas but authorized under paragraph (6. o) below to 
crush cottonseed originating therein, shall be returned to the regulated areas 
for such compression and fumigation as may be required under previous para- 
graphs of this section, and shall not be moved therefrom except in compliance 
with all applicable requirements of this section. 
(e) Uncompressed and undisinf ected 2 cotton lint may be moved interstate 
under permit between regulated areas under such safeguards as shall be re- 
quired by the inspector when such movement is not through any point outside 
any regulated area. 
(3) Lint grown outside regulated areas. — Baled cotton lint grown outside of 
but brought within a regulated area may be moved interstate under permit 
out of such regulated area on the furnishing of evidence, satisfactory to the 
inspector, that such lint has been handled in a manner to safeguard it from 
possible contamination with the pink bollworm. 
SECTION B. MISCELLANEOUS COTTON PRODUCTS AND OTHER RESTRICTED ARTICLES 
(4) Stalks, bolls, and other parts of the cotton plant and gin waste shall not 
be moved or allowed to be moved interstate from regulated areas. 
(5) Seed cotton shall not be moved or allowed to be moved interstate from 
regulated areas, except that for the purpose of ginning such seed cotton may be 
moved 2 interstate without permit between two contiguous regulated areas. 
Cottonseed and cotton lint ginned from seed cotton so moved may be returned 
without permit to point of origin. 
(6) Cottonseed shall not be moved or allowed to be moved interstate from the 
regulated areas into or through any point outside thereof unless a permit shall 
have been issued therefor by the United States Department of Agriculture. 
Such permits may be issued under the conditions specified in any one of the 
following three paragraphs: 
2 Except from the area in Arizona regulated on account of the Thurberia weevil under 
Quarantine No. Gl. 
