[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 7, Volume 6] [Revised as of January 1, 2003] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 7CFR613.5] [Page 360] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 613--PLANT MATERIALS CENTERS--Table of Contents Sec. 613.5 Plant materials centers. (a) The National Plant Materials Center. The National Plant Materials Center at Beltsville, Maryland, serves as the central facility for assembling, increasing, and determining the characteristics of plant materials from foreign and domestic sources. Plant materials with potential value for conservation and related uses are distributed to other plant materials centers. (b) Other Plant Materials Centers. There are 23 other plant materials centers. Each serves several major land resource areas. Seventeen of these other centers are operated by NRCS, and six by cooperating agencies, as follows: (1) Operated by NRCS: Tucson, Arizona Lockeford, California Brooksville, Florida Americus, Georgia Molokai, Hawaii Aberdeen, Idaho Manhattan, Kansas Quicksand, Kentucky East Lansing, Michigan Coffeeville, Mississippi Elsberry, Missouri Bridger, Montana Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey Big Flats, New York Corvallis, Oregon Knox City, Texas Pullman, Washington (2) Operated by cooperating agencies with financial and technical assistance from NRCS: Los Lunas, New Mexico (New Mexico State University) Bismarck, North Dakota (North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts) Meeker, Colorado (White River and Douglas Creek Soil Conservation Districts with partial funding from NRCS) (3) Operated by cooperating agencies with technical assistance from NRCS: Palmer, Alaska (State of Alaska) Kingsville, Texas (Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas Agricultural and Industrial University, and South Texas Association of Conservation Districts) Nacogdoches, Texas (Stephen F. Austin University and the East Texas Association of Conservation Districts)