[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7, Parts 700 to 899]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR723.302]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 723--TOBACCO--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart C--Tobacco Subject to Quota, Exemptions From Quotas, Marketing 
                  Cards, and General Penalty Provisions
 
Sec. 723.302  Tobacco for experimental purposes.

    For farms on which tobacco is being grown for experimental purposes 
by or under the direction of a publicly owned agricultural experiment 
station, such tobacco shall be exempt from any penalties otherwise 
required by this part if, before the beginning of the harvesting of 
tobacco from any farm on which experimental tobacco is being grown, the 
director of such publicly owned agricultural experimental station 
furnishes a report, to the State Executive Director for the State in 
which the farm is located, that includes the following information:
    (a) Name and address of the publicly owned agricultural experiment 
station.
    (b) Name of the owner, and name of the operator if different from 
the owner, and the farm number of each farm on which tobacco is grown 
for experimental purposes only.

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    (c) The acreage or poundage of tobacco that is to be grown on each 
farm for experimental purposes only.
    (d) A certification signed by the director of the publicly owned 
agricultural experiment station to the effect that such acreage or 
poundage of tobacco is being grown for each farm for experimental 
purposes only, the tobacco is being grown under the auspices of such 
director, and the acreage of each plot was considered necessary for 
carrying out the experiment.