[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)