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| Definitions | 1205.10 – 1205.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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62 FR 1660, Jan. 13, 1997, unless otherwise noted.
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The term Act means the Cotton Research and Promotion Act, as amended [7 U.S.C 2101-2118; Public Law 89-502, 80 Stat 279, as amended].
The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service, or any officer or employee of USDA to whom authority has been delegated to act in the Administrator's stead.
The term cotton means all Upland cotton harvested in the United States and all imports of Upland cotton, including the Upland cotton content of products derived thereof.
[81 FR 38894, June 15, 2016]
The term Upland cotton means all cultivated varieties of the species Gossypium hirsutum L.
The term Department means the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The term Farm Service Agency—formerly Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS)—also referred to as “FSA,” means the Farm Service Agency of the Department.
The term Order means the Cotton Research and Promotion Order.
The term person means any individual 18 years of age or older, or any partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity.
The term producer means any person who shares in a cotton crop, or in the proceeds thereof, as an owner of the farm, cash tenant, landlord of a share tenant, share tenant, or sharecropper, that planted the cotton during the representative period.
[67 FR 21169, Apr. 30, 2002]
The term importer means any person who enters, or withdraws from warehouse, cotton for consumption in the customs territory of the United States, and the term import means any such entry.
The term representative period means the 2020 calendar year.
[86 FR 20257, Apr. 19, 2021]
The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, or any other officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has been delegated to act in the Secretary's stead.
The term State means each of the 50 states.
The term United States means the 50 states of the United States of America.