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charges collect, to the importer. Material for clearance at San Francisco or 
Seattle will be similarly handled by the inspectors of the bureau at those ports. 
31. Disinfection. — Disinfection will be authorized for slight infestation, but 
should the material be found to be so infected or infested with either diseases or 
insects that it can not be adequately disinfected it will either be destroyed or, 
when desired and safety permits, permission may be granted for its exportation. 
32. Storage and repacking. — So far as possible the bureau will undertake to 
provide for storage and repacking. However, should larger quantities of propa- 
gating or other stock arrive under regulation 14 than can be housed and cared 
for in the inspection house of this department, the importers may be required 
to provide local storage for such material during the period of detention for 
examination and, if necessary, disinfection, and also to provide for the opening 
of containers and repacking. 
33. Charges. — The department will make no charge for inspection and super- 
vision, but the importer will be required to meet all entry, transportation, dis- 
infection, and handling charges, drayage, etc.; and for this purpose should make 
arrangements with responsible agencies at port of arrival for forwarding in bond 
to Washington, D. C, and in Washington for all local charges as indicated. 
34. Mail shipments. — Permission for importation through the mails of special 
permit material under regulation 14 will be authorized on request when warranted 
by the nature and amount of the proposed shipment. Such authority, if approved, 
will be indicated on the permit, and tags for such mail shipments will be furnished, 
These tags will be addressed to the United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Plant Quarantine, either at Washington, D. C, San Francisco, Calif., 
Seattle, Wash., San Juan, P. R,., or Honolulu, Hawaii, and will carry the number 
of the permit authorizing the importation, and when attached to the package will 
authorize the foreign postmaster to accept it for shipment. By special arrange- 
ment with the United States Post Office Department, such mail shipments, 
after inspection, may be forwarded to the importer without payment of addi- 
tional postage. The requirements in the case of mail shipments are somewhat 
simplified. By arrangement with the customs service such shipments are per- 
mitted to come in customs bond directly to the Department of Agriculture, 
either at the Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, San Juan, or Honolulu offices 
of the bureau, obviating any brokerage service for forwarding from port of first 
arrival. The importer will have to provide merely for customs clearance either 
at Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, San Juan, or Honolulu, of mail shipments 
valued at $100 or more. Mail shipments valued at less than $100 may, after 
inspection, be forwarded to the post office of destination and the customs duty 
paid to the postmaster at that place. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
SEGREGATION, LABELING, AND UTILIZATION REQUIREMENTS OF PLANTS IMPORTED 
UNDER SPECIAL PERMIT FOR PROPAGATION 
B. P. Q.— 341 
(Revision of P. Q. C. A.— 308) August 20, 1932. 
Permittees importing nursery stock and other plants for propagation under 
regulation 14 of Quarantine No. 37, the Nursery Stock, Plant, and Seed Quaran- 
tine, are requested to note that paragraph 7, page 4, of the form for application 
for special permit (Form 207, revised August 20, 1932) includes the provision 
that "the permittee or his agent shall so plant or utilize the imported stock and 
the increase therefrom, under the number of the permit authorizing the importa- 
tion, as to maintain the identity of each shipment and the identity of each variety 
therein until released (see P. B. Q. — 341)." 
Imported plants should be kept labeled at all times with the permit number 
as well as with the varietal name. Planting numbers may be used in lieu of the 
varietal names, provided a key to the same is promptly furnished the Bureau of 
Plant Quarantine. 
The purpose of keeping such imports segregated, as opposed to permitting them 
to be scattered or miscellaneously planted, is to safeguard against the possible 
spread of plant pests, especially those new to or not theretofore widely distributed 
in this country which may have escaped detection during the original inspection 
at time of entry. Such segregation is also essential in facilitating the inspection 
of the imported stock from time to time by representatives of the Bureau of 
Plant Quarantine. 
