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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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found necessary to restrict entry of this material to bales of such density as 
will permit practical and effective treatment. The present revision of regula- 
tion 6 is intended to incorporate this restriction, and to provide more definitely 
for routing shipments arriving at ports where no treating facilities are available 
to approved ports where such treatment can he given. 
S. A. Rohwek, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE 
OF QUARANTINE NO. 55 
(Approved July 27, 1934; effective Aug. 1, 1934) 
Under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
(37 Stat. 315), as amended, it is ordered that regulation 6 of the rules and 
regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 55, on account of in- 
jurious insects and diseases of rice, as revised effective November 23, 1938, be, 
and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : 
Regulation G. Inspection and Disinfection at Port of Arrival 
Paddy rice. — All importations of seed or paddy rice from Mexico shall be 
subject, as a condition of entry, to such inspection or disinfection, or both, at 
the port of arrival, as shall be required by the inspector, and to the delivery 
to the collector of customs by the inspector of a written notice that the seed 
or paddy rice has been inspected and found to be apparently free from plant 
diseases and insect pests or that the required treatment has been given. Should 
any shipment of such seed or paddy rice be found to be so infested with insect 
pests or infected with plant diseases that, in the judgment of the inspector, it 
cannot be cleaned by disinfection or other treatment, the entire shipment may- 
be refused entry. 
Rice straw and rice hulls. — As a condition of entry, rice straw and rice hulls 
shall be subject to inspection and to treatment at the port of arrival, under 
the supervision of the inspector, by methods and at plants approved by the 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, and, as a further condition of 
entry, in order to permit effective treatment, the contents of packages or bales 
shall not be compressed to a density of more than 30 pounds per cubic foot. 
Rice straw and rice hulls will be admitted only at ports where adequate 
facilities are available for such treatment. The required treatment must be 
given within 20 days after arrival, but if any shipment of rice straw or rice 
hulls shall be found upon arrival to be dangerously infested or infected the 
inspector may direct immediate treatment under adequate safeguards ; and, if 
the treatment and safeguards are not put into effect as directed, the shipment 
shall be removed from the country immediately or destroyed. 
Unless, within 20 days after the date of arrival of a shipment at the port at 
which the formal entry was filed, the importation has received the required' 
treatment, due notice of which shall be given to the collector of customs by 
the inspector, demand will be made by the collector for redelivery of the ship- 
ment into customs custody under the terms of the entry bond, and, if such 
redelivery is not made, the shipment shall be removed from the country or 
destroyed. 
General. — All charges for storage, cartage, and labor incident to inspection 
rnd disinfection, other than the services of the inspector, shall be paid by the 
importer. 
All shipments shall be so baled, bagged, or wrapped as to prevent scattering or 
wastage. If, in the judgment of the inspector, a shipment is not so bagged, 
baled, or wrapped, it shall be reconditioned at the expense of the permittee or 
entry may be refused. 
This amendment shall be effective on and after August 1, 1934. 
Done at the city of Washington this 27th day of July 1934. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
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