B.E.P.^. Ug5, 19th Rev. Effective May 16, 1951 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ■ 
 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION 
 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
 DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES 
 
 ADMI IH STRATI VS INSTRUCTIONS EXEMPTING CERTAIN ARTICLES PROM CERTIFICATION 
 REQUIREMENTS OF WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE REGULATIONS 
 
 Introductory Note 
 
 The following administrative instructions exempt from certification 
 requirements a number of articles regulated by the quarantine en account 
 of white-fringed beetles (Quarantine No, J2) when such articles have been 
 produced, handled, and maintained under conditions that prevent them from 
 becoming infested. 
 
 On April 5, 1951, there was published in the Federal Register (l6 F.R. 
 2972) a notice of r>roposed amendment of administrative instructions exempt- 
 ing certain regulated articles from the certification requirements of 
 §§ 3OI.72-U and 301.72-5 of the regulations supplemental to Notice of 
 Quarantine No. 72 relating to white-fringed beetles (7 CFR, Supp. , 301.72-H 
 and 301.72-5). After due consideration of all relevant matters presented 
 and pursuant to the authority conferred \ipon the Chief of the Bureau of 
 Entomology and Plant Quarantine by the second proviso of the white-fringed 
 beetle quarantine (7 CFR, Supp., 3OI.72) , revised administrative instruc- 
 tions are hereby adopted as follows: 
 
 § 301.72 Administrative instructions exempting articles from 
 certification , (a) The following articles are hereby exempt from the cer- 
 tification requirements of §§ }01.12-k and 301.72-5 when they are free from 
 soil, when they have not been exposed to infestation, and when sanitation 
 practices are maintained as prescribed by or to the satisfaction of the 
 inspector: 
 
 (1) Hay and straw, except that peanut hay is not exempt. 
 
 (2) Uncleaned grass, grain, and legume seed. 
 
 (3) Seed cotton and cottonseed. 
 
 CU) Forest products, such as cordwood, stump wood, logs, lumber, 
 timbers, posts, poles, and cross ties. 
 
 (5) Brick, tile, stone, concrete slabs, pipe, building blocks, and 
 cinders. 
 
 (6) Potatoes (Irish), when freshly harvested, ^rown in the regulated 
 area in Baldwin County, Alabama. . 
 
 (b) Certification will be required for the following articles and 
 materials: 
 
 (1) Soil, compost, manure, peat, muck, clay, sand, or gravel, whether 
 moved independently of or in connection with or attached to nursery stock, 
 
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 plants, products, articles, or things (processed clay and washed or pro- 
 cessed sand and gravel are not regulated). 
 
 (2) Nursery stock. 
 
 (3) Grass sod. 
 
 (k) Plant crowns or roots for propagation. 
 
 (5) Potatoes (Irish), when freshly harvested, other than those grown 
 in the regulated area in 3aldwin County, Alabama. 
 
 (6) True bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes of ornamental plants, 
 vhen freshly harvested or uncured. 
 
 (7) Peanut shells and peanuts in shells. 
 
 (8) Peanut hay. 
 
 (9) Scrap metal and junk. 
 
 (Sec. g, 37 Stat. 318, as amended; 7 U. S. C. l6l) 
 
 The foregoing revised administrative instructions shall become effec- 
 tive on May lb, 1951. and on that date shall supersede B.E. P. ^. 1+85, 18th 
 Revision, which was effective June lU, 1950 (7 CPR 301.72a, 15 F.R. 287l) . 
 
 Done at Washington, D. C. , this 2Uth day of April 1951. 
 
 (S3AL) 
 
 Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plan^/ Quarantine