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Wednesday , D ecem ber 9, 1959
Tampa, Fla.
Washington, D.C.
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Wilmington, N.C.

351.3

Procedure on arrival.

All parcel post or other mail packages from foreign countries which, either from examination or external evidence, are found or are believed to contain plants or plant products, shall be dispatched for submission, or actually submitted, to the plant quarantine inspector at the most accessible location listed in 351.2. The inspector shall pass upon the contents under the Plant Quarantine Act and Federal Plant Pest Act and with the cooperation o f the customs and postal officers either a release the package from further plant quarantine examina tion and endorse his decision thereon; or b divert it to the Plant Quarantine Station at Washington, D.C., Browns ville, Tex., Hoboken, N.J., Honolulu, Hawaii, Laredo, Tex., Miami, Fla., San Francisco, Clif., San Juan, P.R., San Pedro, Calif., or Seattle Wash., for what ever disposition is deemed warf anted. I f so diverted, the plant quarantine in spector shall attach to the package the yellow and green special mailing tag ad dressed to the proper quarantine station.
A package so diverted shall be accom panied by customs card Form 3511 and transmitted to the appropriate Customs office for referral to the Plant Quaran tine Station. Envelopes containing cus toms card Form 3511 addressed to the collector of customs, New York, N.Y., shall contain a notation that the ma terial is to be referred to the Plant Quar antine Division, Hoboken, N.J.
351.4

Records.

The customs officers at Washington, D.C., Brownsville, Tex., Hoboken, N.J., Honolulu, Hawaii, Laredo, Tex., Miami, Fla., San Francisco, Calif., San Juan, P.R., San Pedro, Calif., or Seattle, Wash., shall keep a record of such packages as may be delivered to representatives of the Department of Agriculture, and upon the return thereof shall prepare a mail entry to accompany the dutiable package and deliver it to the postmaster for de livery or onward dispatch or in appro priate cases subject the shipment to for mal customs entry procedure.
351.5

Return or destruction.

Where the plant quarantine inspector requires the entire shipment to be re turned to the country of origin as a pro hibited importation in which event he shall endorse his action thereon and delivers the shipment to the collector of customs, the collector shall in turn de liver it tp the postmaster for dispatch to the country of origin. If, upon ex amination, the plant material is deemed dangerous to plant life, the collector of customs shall permit the plant quaran tine inspector to destroy immediately both the container and its contents. In either case the plant quarantine inspec tor shall notify the addressee of the ac tion taken and the reason therefor. I f the objectionable plant material forms only a portion of the contents of the mail package and in the judgment of the inspector the package can safely be de-

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livered to the addressee, after removing and destroying the objectionable mate rial, such procedure is authorized. In the latter case the inspector shall place in the package a memorandum Form PQ-387 informing the addressee of the action taken by the inspector and de scribing the matter which has been seized and destroyed and the reasons therefor.
351.6 Packages in patches.

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The foregoing instructions shall be followed in the treatment of packages containing plants or plant products re ceived in closed mail dispatches made up for transmission directly to a post office located at a customs port at which no plant quarantine inspector is stationed.
Such packages accompanied by customs card Form 35li> shall be forwarded by the collector of customs through the postmaster to the most accessible loca tion listed in 351.2 for appropriate treatment in the manner hereinbefore provided.. This procedure shall also be followed in respect to such packages which are forwarded to unlisted post o f fices from the post office of original re ceipt, without having received plant quarantine examination. Packages dis covered at post offices where no customs officer is located shall be forwarded by the postmaster under his official penalty envelope addressed to the collector of customs at the most accessible location listed for appropriate treatment as pre scribed herein.
351.7 Regulations governing importa tion by mail o f plant material fo r immediate export.

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and comply with other mailing require ments, after which the parcel shall be delivered to the postmaster for exporta tion by mail pursuant to 19 CFR 9.11a.
The contents of the origihal parcel may be subdivided and exported in separate parcels in like manner.
- 4 I t will not be necessary to issue a customs mail entry nor to require formal entry of the shipments.
5 The mail shipments referred to shall be accorded special handling only at the points specified in subparagraph 2 of this paragraph.
6 The foregoing procedure shall not affect the movement of plant material in the international mails in transit through the United States.
This revision brings up to date the list of locations at which Plant Quaran tine Inspectors are stationed and makes certain changes to conform with the most recent regulations and procedures of the Bureau of Customs and the Post Office Department.
A t the suggestion o f the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department, and the Bureau of Transportation, Post Office Department, four locations listed under 351.2 in the notice of proposed rule making have been deleted and 351.7
a 4 changed. Other changes have been made which are clarifying in na ture. Since" these changes relieve re strictions or are formal or procedural in nature, it is found upon good cause, under section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act 5 U.S.C. 1003, that further notice and other public proce dure with respect to said changes are impracticable and unnecessary.
These revised regulations shall become effective January 8, 1960.

T o collectors o f customs and others concerned:
Done at Washington, D.C., this 3d day a Shipments of plant material may be imported by mail free of duty for im of December 1959.
mediate exportation by mail subject to seal M. R. C l a r k s o n , the following regulations, which have Acting Administrator, been approved by the Department of Agricultural Research Service.
Agriculture and the Post Office Depart F J a . Doc. 59-10375; Filed, Dec. 8, 1959;
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1 Each shipment shall be dispatched in the mails from abroad, accompanied by a yellow and green special mail tag bearing the serial number of the permit for entry for immediate exportation or immediate transportation and exporta tion, issued by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, and also the postal Chapter III Farmers Home Adminis form of customs declaration.
tration, Department of Agriculture 2 Upon arrival, the shipment shall SUBCHAPTER B FARM OWNERSHIP LOANS
be detained by, or redispatched to, the postmaster at Washington, D.C., Browns FH A Instruction 428.1
ville, Tex., Hoboken, N.J., Honolulu, Hawaii, Laredo, Tex., Miami, Fla., San PART 331 POLICIES AND
Francisco, Calif., San Juan, P.R., San AUTHORITIES
Pedro, Calif., or Seattle, Wash., as may be appropriate, according to the address Average Values of Farms; Arkansas on the yellow and green tag, and there On November 17/1959, fo r the purposes submitted to the customs officer and the of Title I of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Federal quarantine inspector. The mer Tenant Act, as amended, the average chandise shall under no circumstances values of efficient family-type farm be permitted to enter the commerce of management units for the counties iden the United States.
tified below were determined to be as 3 A fter inspection by the customs herein set forth. The average values and quarantine officers, and with their heretofore established for said counties, approval, the addressee, or his authorized which appear in the tabulations of aver agent, shall repack and readdress the age values under 6 CFR 331.17, are here mail parcel under customs supervision; by-superseded by the average values set affix to the parcel the necessary postage, forth below for, said counties.

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