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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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§ 320.1. Administration. — The Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine is charged with the administration of the provisions of this Act and 
the regulations in this part concurrently with the Plant Quarantine Act and the 
quarantines and orders issued thereunder. 
§ 320.2. Regulated vehicles, articles, and materials. 3 — To carry out the purpose 
of the aforesaid Act to prevent the introduction of insect pests and plant diseases 
these regulations shall apply to railway cars, boats crossing the Rio Grande, air- 
craft, drawn or self-propelled vehicles (such as wagons, carts, trucks, automo- 
biles), freight, baggage, containers, and articles or materials which may be con- 
taminated with insect pests or plant diseases. These regulations, however, shall 
not apply to railway cars, other vehicles, and other materials originating in and 
moving directly from the Northern Territory of Baja California, Mexico. 
§ 320.3. Definitions. — For the purpose of these regulations the following words, 
names, and terms shall be construed, respectively, to mean : 
(a) Inspector. — An inspector of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine, United States Department of Agriculture. 
(&) Owner or agent. — As used in these regulations this term shall include both 
singular and plural and shall denote the person, agent, firm, company, or official, 
having responsible custody of railway cars, vehicles, or other materials subject to 
these regulations. 
(c) Disinfection. — Disinfection as used in these regulations includes any 
treatment or process designed to destroy insect pests or plant disease organisms. 
(d) Railway cars. — As used in these regulations shall include all types of cars 
commonly employed in the transportation of freight, such as box, flat, tank, 
refrigerator, gondola, stock, etc. 
(e) Cleaning. — Cleaning as used in these regulations shall mean the removal, 
to the satisfaction of the inspector, of matter, other than the cargo and articles 
being moved, which may carry insect pests or plant diseases from railway cars, 
other vehicles, freight, express, baggage, and other materials. 
(f) Other vehicles. — As used in these regulations the term "other vehicles" 
includes means of conveyance other than railway cars, such as aircraft, boats, 
automobiles, trailers, trucks, wagons, and carts, etc. 
(g) Other materials. — As used in these regulations the term "other materials" 
shall include all commodities, articles, and materials which may be the means of 
introducing insect pests or plant diseases into the United States. 
§ 320.4. Inspection. — As a condition of entry into the United States from 
Mexico all articles and materials under these regulations (§ 320.2) shall be 
subject to examination by an inspector for the purpose of determining whether 
they may enter the United States without risk of introducing insect pests and 
plant diseases. 
§ 320.5. Railway cars. — When the inspector has determined by examination 
that railway cars may enter the United States without risk of introducing 
insect pests and plant diseases into the United States, he shall, insofar as these 
regulations may govern, permit their entry. If the examination discloses that 
any car is contaminated and would involve risk of introducing insect pests 
or plant diseases into the United States, he shall prescribe, as condition of entry, 
cleaning, transfer of cargo, or disinfection, or all three. When cleaning alone 
has been prescribed and done to the satisfaction of the inspector he shall permit 
the entry of the cleaned cars, insofar as these regulations may govern entry. 
When disinfection is prescribed the entry of the cars shall be conditioned on 
their being fumigated, under the supervision of the inspector, either in a govern- 
ment-owned fumigation house or otherwise in a place and by methods prescribed 
by the inspector. Immediately upon entry of railway cars for fumigation they 
shall be moved by the owner or agent having charge of same directly to the 
government-owned fumigation plant, or "spotted" at an approved place and 
before placing the cars in the fumigation chambers or "spotting" them for 
fumigating the railroad company servicing the cars shall cause the car doors to 
be opened and subsequent to fumigation it shall be the responsibility of the 
railroad company to remove the cars from the fumigation plant or place where 
they have been "spotted" and to close the car doors when the occasion requires. 
When the prescribed fumigation has been accomplished in manner required by 
the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, the inspector 
• The entry of certain plants and plant products is regulated or prohibited by quarantines 
and regulations promulgated under the Plant Quarantine Act as amended. 
