[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR760.2]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 760--INDEMNITY PAYMENT PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart--Dairy Indemnity Payment Program
 
Sec. 760.2  Definitions.

    For purposes of this subject, the following terms shall have the 
meanings specified:
    (a) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United 
States or any officer or employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
to whom he has delegated, or to whom he may hereafter delegate, 
authority to act in his stead.
    (b) FSA means the Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture.
    (c) Deputy Administrator means the Deputy Administrator, State and 
County Operations, FSA.
    (d) State committee means the Agricultural Stabilization and 
Conservation State committee.
    (e) County committee means the Agricultural Stabilization and 
Conservation county committee.
    (f) Pesticide means an economic poison which was registered pursuant 
to the provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 
Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 135 through 135k), and approved for use by the 
Federal Government.
    (g) Chemicals or Toxic Substances means any chemical substance or 
mixture as defined in the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2602).
    (h) Nuclear Radiation or Fallout means contamination from nuclear 
radiation or fallout from any source.
    (i) Violating Substance means one or more of the items defined in 
paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section.
    (j) Public agency means any Federal, State or local public 
regulatory agency.
    (k) Affected farmer means a person who produces whole milk which is 
removed from the commerical market any time from:
    (1) Pursuant to the direction of a public agency because of the 
detection of pesticide residues in such whole milk by tests made by a 
public agency or under a testing program deemed adequate for the purpose 
by a public agency, or
    (2) Pursuant to the direction of a public agency because of the 
detection of other residues of chemicals or toxic substances residues, 
or contamination from nuclear radiation or fallout in such whole milk by 
tests made by a public agency or under a testing program deemed adequate 
for the purpose by a public agency.
    (l) Affected manufacturer means a person who manufactures dairy 
products which are removed from the commercial market pursuant to the 
direction of a public agency because of the detection of pesticide 
residue in such dairy products by tests made by a public agency or under 
a testing program deemed adequate for the purpose by a public agency.
    (m) Milk handler means the marketing agency to or through which the 
affected dairy farmer marketed his whole milk at the time he was 
directed by the public agency to remove his whole milk from the 
commercial market.
    (n) Person means an individual, partnership, association, 
corporation, trust, estate, or other legal entity.
    (o) Application period means any period during which an affected 
farmer's whole milk is removed from the commercial market pursuant to 
direction of a public agency for a reason specified in paragraph (k) of 
this section and for which application for payment is made.
    (p) Pay period means (1) in the case of an affected farmer who 
markets his whole milk through a milk handler, the period used by the 
milk handler in settling with the affected farmer for his whole milk, 
usually biweekly or monthly, or (2) in the case of an affected farmer 
whose commercial market consists of direct retail sales to consumers, a 
calendar month.
    (q) Whole milk means milk as it is produced by cows.
    (r) Commercial market means (1) the market to which the affected 
farmer normally delivers his whole milk and from which it was removed 
because of

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detection therein of a residue of a violating substance(s) or (2) the 
market to which the affected manufacturer normally delivers his dairy 
products and from which they were removed because of detection therein 
of pesticide residue.
    (s) Removed from the commercial market means (1) produced and 
destroyed or fed to livestock, (2) produced and delivered to a handler 
who destroyed it or disposed of it as salvage (such as separating whole 
milk, destroying the fat, and drying the skim milk), or (3) produced and 
otherwise diverted to other than the commercial market.
    (t) Payment subject to refund means a payment which is made by a 
milk handler to an affected farmer, and which such farmer is obligated 
to refund to the milk handler.
    (u) Base period means the calendar month or 4-week period 
immediately preceding removal of milk from the market.

[43 FR 10535, Mar. 14, 1978, as amended by Amdt. 1, 44 FR 36360, July 
22, 1979; 52 FR 17935, May 13, 1987; 53 FR 44001, Nov. 1, 1988; 56 FR 
1358, Jan. 14, 1991; 61 FR 18485, Apr. 26, 1996]

                   Payments to Dairy Farmers for Milk