§ 318.13 - Notice of quarantine.

(a) Under the authority of sections 411, 412, 414, and 434 of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7711, 7712, 7714, and 7754), the State of Hawaii is quarantined to prevent the spread of dangerous plant diseases and pests, including the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata (Wied.)), the melon fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae Coq.), the oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis Hendl.), green coffee scale (Coccus viridis (Green)), the bean pod borer (Maruca testulalis (Geyer)), the bean butterfly (Lampides boeticus (L.)), the Asiatic rice borer (Chilo suppressalis), the mango weevil (Sternochetus mangiferae (F.)), the Chinese rose beetle (Adoretus sinicus Burm.), and a cactus borer (Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg.)), which are new to or not known to be widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout other States.

(b) No fruits or vegetables, in the raw or unprocessed state; cut flowers; rice straw; mango seeds; or cactus plants or parts thereof shall be shipped, offered for shipment to a common carrier, received for transportation or transported by a common carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved by any person from Hawaii into or through the continental United States, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, in manner or method or under conditions other than those prescribed in the regulations hereinafter made or amendments thereto: Provided, That whenever the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shall find that existing conditions as to the pest risk involved in the movement of any of the articles to which the regulations supplemental hereto apply, make it safe to modify, by making less stringent, the restrictions contained in any of such regulations, he shall publish such finding in administrative instructions specifying the manner in which the restrictions shall be made less stringent, whereupon such modification shall become effective; or he may, when the public interest will permit, with respect to the movement of any of such articles to Guam, upon request in specific cases and notification to the person making the request, authorize their certification under conditions, specified in the certificate to carry out the purposes of this subpart, that are less stringent than those contained in the regulations: And provided, further, That no restrictions are placed hereby on the movement of cactus plants from Hawaii to St. Croix, Virgin Islands of the United States, or on the movement of coconuts from Hawaii into or through the continental United States, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States.

(c) This subpart leaves in full force and effect § 318.60 which restricts the movement from Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States into or through any other State or certain Territories or Districts of the United States of sand, soil, or earth about the roots of plants.

(d) Regulations governing the movement of live plant pests designated in this section are contained in part 330 of this chapter.