[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR205.101]

[Page 64-65]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER II--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION 
       (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS),DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 205_CLEAR TITLE_PROTECTION FOR PURCHASERS OF FARM PRODUCTS
--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 205.101  Certification--request and processing.

    (a) To obtain certification of a system, a written request for 
certification must be filed together with such documents as show that 
the system complies with the Section. If such material is voluminous, a 
summary, table of contents, and index must accompany it as necessary to 
facilitate review.
    (b) The request must:
    (1) Include an introductory explanation of how the system will 
operate;

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    (2) Identify the information which will be required to be supplied 
on an EFS;
    (3) Identify where an EFS, amendment thereto, or continuation 
thereof, will be filed and, if elsewhere than with the system operator, 
explain how and in what form the system operator will receive 
information needed to compile and update the master list;
    (4) Explain the method for recording the date and hour of filing of 
an EFS, amendment thereto, or continuation thereof;
    (5) Explain how the master list will be compiled, including the 
method and form of storage and arrangement of information, explain the 
method and form of retrieval of information from the master list, the 
method and form of distribution of portions of the master list to 
registrants as required by subsection (c)(2)(E), and the method and form 
of furnishing of information orally with written confirmation as 
required by subsection (c)(2)(F) (details of computer hardware and 
software need not be furnished but the results it will produce must be 
explained);
    (6) Explain how the list of registrants will be compiled, including 
identification of where and how they will register, what information 
they must supply in connection with registration, and the method and 
form of storage and retrieval of such information (details of computer 
hardware and software need not be furnished but the results it will 
produce must be explained);
    (7) Show how frequently portions of the master list will be 
distributed regularly to registrants;
    (8) Show the farm products according to which the master list will 
be organized;
    (9) Show how the system will interpret the term ``crop year'' and 
how it will classify as to crop year an EFS not showing crop year;
    (10) Show what fee will be charged and explain how the costs of the 
system will be covered if not by such fee and the general revenue of the 
State; and
    (11) Include copies of:
    (i) All State legislation or other legal authority under which the 
system is created and operated, and the system operator is designated;
    (ii) All regulations, rules and requirements issued under such 
legislation or other legal authority and governing operation of the 
system, designation of the system operator, and use of the system by 
members of the public; and
    (iii) All printed and electronic forms required to be used in 
connection with the system.
    (c) Any such request and attachments must be filed in triplicate 
(one copy for public inspection, a second copy for use in GIPSA, and a 
third copy for use in the Office of the General Counsel, USDA). All 
three copies must be received in the headquarters of the Grain 
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration Packers and Stockyards 
Programs), USDA, Washington, DC 20250.
    (d) A refusal to certify such a system, if any, will be explained in 
writing. Reconsideration of such a refusal must be requested in writing 
with specification of errors believed to have been made.
    (e) To make changes to an existing certified central filing system, 
including changes necessitated or made possible by amendments to the 
Act, a written request to amend the existing certified central filing 
system must be filed together with such documents as are necessary to 
show that the system complies with the Act. The request must contain 
relevant new information consistent with the requirements specified 
elsewhere in this section.

[51 FR 29451, Aug. 18, 1986, as amended at 61 FR 54728, Oct. 22, 1996]