[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 9CFR321.1]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 321--COOPERATION WITH STATES AND TERRITORIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 321.1  Assistance to State and Territorial programs.

    (a) The Administrator is authorized under paragraph (a) of section 
301 of the Act, when he determines it would effectuate the purposes of 
the Act, to cooperate with any State (including Puerto Rico) or any 
organized Territory in developing and administering the meat inspection 
program of such jurisdiction with a view to assuring that it imposes and 
enforces requirements at least equal to those under Titles I and IV of 
the Act, with respect to establishments at which products are prepared 
for use as human food solely for distribution within such jurisdiction, 
and with respect to the products of such establishments. Such 
cooperation is authorized if the jurisdiction has enacted a law imposing 
mandatory ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection, reinspection, and 
sanitation requirements at least equal to the Federal requirements with 
respect to all or certain classes of persons engaged in slaughtering 
livestock or otherwise preparing products solely for distribution within 
such jurisdiction.
    (b) The Administrator is also authorized under paragraph (a) of 
section 301 of the Act to cooperate with any State (including Puerto 
Rico) or any organized Territory in developing and administering 
programs under the laws of such jurisdiction containing authorities at 
least equal to those in Title II of the Act (relating to records; 
registration of specified classes of operators; dead, dying, disabled, 
or diseased livestock; and products not intended for human food), when 
he determines that such cooperation would effectuate the purposes of the 
Act.
    (c) Such cooperation may include advisory assistance, technical and 
laboratory assistance and training, and financial aid. The Federal 
contribution to any State (or Territory) may not exceed 50 percent of 
the estimated total cost of the cooperative State (or Territorial) 
program. A cooperative program under this section is called a State-
Federal program.

[35 FR 15604, Oct. 3, 1970]