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BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
[Oct.-Dec. 
Mississippi : Entomologist, State Plant Board, State College. 
North Carolina : State Entomologist, Raleigh. 
[Copies of the foregoing quarantine were sent to all common carriers doing business in 
or through the quarantined area.] 
[ Filed with the Division of the Federal Register December 24, 1942, 2 : 43 p. m .: 7 
F. R. 10902.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C, December 23, 19J t 2. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority con- 
ferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 
161), has promulgated a revision, effective on and after December 28, 1942, of the 
white-fringed beetle quarantine (Notice of Quarantine No. 301.72) and regula- 
tions supplemental thereto. The purposes of the revision are to extend the 
regulated areas to include parts of the North Carolina counties of New 
Hanover, Pender, and Wayne, and additional infested sections in Alabama and 
Mississippi ; to add to the list of restricted articles gravel, moss, and bulbs, 
corms, tubers, and rhizomes of ornamental plants. Peanut shells are no longer 
restricted. 
Copies of the quarantine as revised may be obtained from the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Department of Agriculture, Washington. 
Paul H. Appleby, 
Acting Secretary. 
[The above notice was published in the following newspapers : The Birmingham News, 
Birmingham, Ala., January 5, 1943 ; the Florida Times Union, Jacksonville, Fla., January 
5, 1943 ; the News, Jackson, Miss., January 6, 1943 ; the Observer, Charlotte, N. C, Jan- 
uary 5, 1943 ; the Times Picayune, New Orleans, La., January 6, 1943.] 
B. E. P. Q. 485, Eleventh Revision Effective December 28, 1942 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
PART 301 DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES 
WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE REGULATIONS MODIFIED 
§ 301.72a Administrative instructions; modification of certification require- 
ments for specified articles. — Pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Chief 
of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine by the second proviso of 
§ 301.72, Chapter III, Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations [Notice of Quarantine 
No. 72, on account of the white-fringed beetlel, the certification requirements are 
hereby modified effective December 28, 1942, through June 15, 1943, for the 
interstate movement of the following articles and materials enumerated in 
§ 301.72-3: 
(a) Certificates may be issued for the interstate movement of the following 
materials under the conditions specified below : 
(1) Soil, sand, gravel, clay, peat, or muck, when taken from a depth of at 
least 2 feet below the existing surface, and when entirely free from any surface 
soil to a depth of 2 feet. 
(2) Sand and gravel, when washed, processed, or otherwise treated to the 
satisfaction of the inspector. 
(b) All certification requirements are waived for the following articles and 
materials when free from soil and when sanitation practices are maintained 
as prescribed by or to the satisfaction of the inspector : 
(1) Potatoes, except that those freshly harvested are not exempt. 
(2) True bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes of ornamental plants, except that 
those freshly harvested or uncured are not exempt. 
• (3) Hay, except that peanut hay is not exempt. 
(4) Seed cotton, cottonseed, and baled cotton lint and linters. 
(5) Scrap metal and junk. 
(6) Forest products such as cordwood, stump wood, logs, lumber, timbers, 
posts, poles, and cross ties. 
(7) Brick, tile, stone, and cinders. 
(8) Concrete slabs, pipe, and building blocks. 
(9) Implements, machinery, equipment, and containers. 
