1939] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 72) 
B. E. P. Q. 485 (second revision). 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— REMOVAL OF WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE CERTIFI- 
CATION REQUIREMENTS UNTIL FEBRUARY 1, 1940, FOR SPECIFIED ARTICLES CON- 
SIGNED FROM DESIGNATED PORTIONS OF THE REGULATED AREAS 
[Approved July 7, 1939; effective July 7, 1939] 
Circular B. E. P. Q. 485, revised, issued May 6, 1939, effective May 8, 1939, 
waived certification requirements until July 1, 1939, for specified articles con- 
signed from certain parts of the areas regulated under quarantine No. 72. The 
present revision extends the period of exemption from regulation for certain 
articles from areas hereinafter specified to February 1, 1940. 
Under authorization provided in Notice of Quarantine No. 72 (sec. 301.72), 
all certification requirements are hereby waived during the regulated periods 
from July 1, 1939, to January 31, 1940, inclusive, of the following articles enumer- 
ated in Regulation 3 {a) and (&) (sec. 301.72-3), when free from soil, it having 
been determined that sanitary measures and natural conditions have so reduced 
the risk of contamination with the egg or adult stage of the white-fringed beetle 
as to render certification unnecessary during the period indicated: 
1. When consigned from the regulated areas in Alabama, Mobile County ; 
Florida, Escambia County ; Louisiana, parish of East Baton Rouge ; Mississippi, 
Jackson County, certification requirements are waived on the following articles : 
Potatoes and sweetpotatoes ; sweetpotato vines, draws, and cuttings ; cordwood, 
pulpwood, stumpwood, and logs ; used or unused lumber, timbers, posts, poles, 
crossties, and other building materials ; hay, roughage of all kinds, straw, leaves, 
and leaf mold; peas, beans, and peanuts in shells, or the shells of any of these 
products ; seed cotton, cottonseed, baled cotton lint, and linters ; used implements 
and machinery, scrap metal, junk, and utensils or containers coming in contact 
with the ground ; brick, tiling, stone, and concrete slabs and blocks ; nursery 
stock and other plants, which are free from soil. 
2. When consigned from the regulated areas in Mississippi, in counties of 
Hinds and Pearl River, certification requirements are waived on the following 
articles : Potatoes and sweetpotatoes ; sweetpotato vines, draws, and cuttings ; 
cordwood, pulpwood. stumpwood, and logs ; used or unused lumber, timbers, posts, 
poles, crossties, and other building materials; hay, roughage of all kinds, straw, 
leaves, and leafmold; peas, beans, and peanuts in shells, or the shells of any 
of these products ; used implements and machinery, scrap metal, junk, and 
utensils or containers coming in contact with the ground ; brick, tiling, stone, 
and concrete slabs and blocks; nursery stock and other plants, which are free 
from soil. 
3. When consigned from the regulated areas in Louisiana, in parishes of 
Jefferson, Orleans (including the city of New Orleans), and Plaquemines, certi- 
fication requirements are waived on the following articles: Potatoes and sweet- 
potatoes; sweetpotato vines, draws, and cuttings; cordwood, pulpwood. stump- 
wood. and logs; unused lumber, timber, posts, poles, and crossties: hay, roughage 
of all kinds, straw, leaves, and leafmold; peas, beans, and peanuts iii the -lu lls, 
or the shells of any of these products; seed cotton, cottonseed, baled cotton lint, 
and linters. 
All articles, designated in paragraphs (a) and (?;) of Regulation 3 of Quaran- 
tine No. 72 (sec. 301.72-3) for which certification requirements are not herein- 
above waived, shall remain under the restrictions of the quarantine during the 
period covered by this document (sec. 301.72a, issued under sec. 301.72). 
Avery S. Hoyt. 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
[Copies of foregoing administrative instructions were sent to all common carriers doin^ 
business in or through the quarantined area.] 
