Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 6.djvu/400

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108 STAT. 4968 PUBLIC LAW 103-465—DEC. 8, 1994 "(2) be accompanied by a certificate of inspection issued, in a manner and form required by the Secretary of Agriculture, by appropriate officials of the country or State from which the nursery stock is to be moved; "(3) be grown under postentry quarsintine conditions by or under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture for the purposes of determining whether the nursery stock may be infested with plant pests or insect pests, or infected with plant diseases, not discernible by port-of-entry inspection; and "(4) if the nursery stock is found to be infested with plant pests or insect pests or infected with plant diseases, be siibject to remedial measures the Secretary of Agriculture determines to be necessary to prevent the spread of plant pests, insect pests, or plant aiseases."; and (2) so that the last sentence of section 2 (7 U.S.C. 156) reads as follows: "This section does not apply to nursery stock that is imported or entered fix)m a country or a region of a country that the Secretary of Agriculture designates, pursuant to procedures set forth in such regulations as the Secretsiry may promulgate, as exempt from the requirements of this section.' \ (e) HONEYBEE IMPORTATION. —The first section of the Act of August 31, 1922 (42 Stat 833, chapter 301; 7 U.S.C. 281) (commonly known as the "Honeybee Act"), is amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. HONEYBEE BIPORTATION. "(a) IN GENERAL. — The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prohibit or restrict the importation or entry of honeybees and honeybee semen into or through the United States in order to prevent the introduction and spread of diseases and parasites harmmi to honeybees, the introduction of genetically undesirable germ plasm of honeybees, or the introduction and spread of undesirable species or subspecies of honeybees and the semen of honeybees. "(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury are each authorized to prescribe such regulations as the respective Secretary determines necessary to carry out this section. "(c) ENFORCEMENT.— Honeybees or honeybee semen offered for importation into, intercepted entering, or havinjg entered the United States, other than in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the I^asury, shall be destroyed or immediately exported. "(d) DEFINITION. —As used in this Act, the term *honeybee' means all life stages and the germ plasm of honeybees of the genus Apis, except honeybee semen.". (f) FEDERAL NOXIOUS WEED ACT OF 1974. —Section 4 of the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 (7 U.S.C. 2803) is amended so that subsections (a) through (b) read as follows: "(a) No person shall import or enter any noxious weed identified in a regulation promulgated by the Secretary into or through the United States or move any noxious weed interstate, unless the movement is in accordance with such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation under this Act to prevent the dissemination into the United States, or interstate, of such noxious weeds. "(b) The regulations prescribed by the Secretary to implement subsection (a) may include regulations requiring that any noxious weed imported or entered into the United States or moving inter-