[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7, Parts 700 to 899]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 7CFR711.3]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 711--MARKETING QUOTA REVIEW REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 711.3  Definitions.

    (a) General terms. In determining the meaning of the provisions of 
this part, unless the context indicates otherwise, words importing the 
singular include and apply to several persons or things, words importing 
the plural include the singular, words importing the masculine gender 
include the feminine as well, and words used in the present tense 
include the future as well as the present. The definitions in part 719 
of this chapter shall apply to this part.
    (b) Act. Act means the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and any 
amendments or supplements thereto.
    (c) Applicant. Applicant means the farmer who filed an application 
for review of a farm marketing quota and if a hearing involves the quota 
of a farm resulting from the reconstitution by division of a parent 
farm, the farm operator of each farm resulting from such reconstitution 
shall be considered an applicant for purposes of this part.
    (d) Clerk. Clerk means the county executive director for the county 
in which the application for review is filed unless another employee of 
the county or State office is designated by the State executive director 
to serve as clerk to the review committee.
    (e) Review committee. Review committee means three farmers 
designated

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to review a quota by the State executive director from the panel of 
farmers appointed by the Secretary under section 363 of the Act.
    (f) Quota. Quota means the farm marketing quota established under 
the Act for a farm during a year in which quotas are approved in the 
national referendum for a commodity, including any of the following 
factors:
    (1) Farm acreage allotment, farm marketing quota, and any 
adjustments in such allotment and quota resulting from: (i) Program 
violations; (ii) lease and transfer; (iii) sale and purchase; (iv) 
overmarketing and undermarketing; (v) release and reapportionment; (vi) 
eminent domain transactions; and (vii) forfeiture and reallocation.
    (2) Farm preliminary yield, farm normal yield and farm yield.
    (3) A determination of the land constituting a farm for which a farm 
acreage allotment or farm marketing quota is established, including the 
following: (i) Land devoted to nonagricultural use, (ii) land used for 
agricultural purposes, (iii) cropland acreage; and (iv) tillable 
cropland.
    (4) Acreage planted to the commodity on the farm.
    (5) Actual production for the farm.
    (6) Farm marketing excess (acres or pounds).
    (7) Marketing quota penalties, including but not limited to, 
assessments for marketing quota violations involving: (i) False 
identification, (ii) failure to account for production and disposition, 
(iii) failure to file a report, and (iv) the filing of a false report.

(Secs. 301, 363-368, 371, 374, 375, 379, 52 Stat. 38 as amended, 63-64, 
as amended, 66, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 1301, 1363-1368, 1375)

[35 FR 15355, Oct. 2, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 9, 45 FR 37398, June 3, 
1980; 49 FR 38240, Sept. 28, 1984]