[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1001.4]

[Page 78]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1001_MILK IN THE NORTHEAST MARKETING AREA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 1001.4  Plant.

    (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, plant means 
the land, buildings, facilities, and equipment constituting a single 
operating unit or establishment at which milk or milk products are 
received, processed, or packaged, including a facility described in 
paragraph (b)(2) of this section if the facility receives the milk of 
more than one dairy farmer.
    (b) Plant shall not include:
    (1) A separate building without stationary storage tanks that is 
used only as a reload point for transferring bulk milk from one tank 
truck to another or a separate building used only as a distribution 
point for storing packaged fluid milk products in transit for route 
disposition;
    (2) An on-farm facility operated as part of a single dairy farm 
entity for the separation of cream and skim milk or the removal of water 
from milk; or
    (3) Bulk reload points where milk is transferred from one tank truck 
to another while en route from dairy farmers' farms to a plant. If 
stationary storage tanks are used for transferring milk at the premises, 
the operator of the facility shall make an advance written request to 
the market administrator that the facility shall be treated as a reload 
point. The cooling of milk, collection of samples, and washing and 
sanitizing of tank trucks at the premises shall not disqualify it as a 
bulk reload point.