[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1000.4]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1000_GENERAL PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL MILK MARKETING ORDERS--Table 
of Contents
 
                          Subpart B_Definitions
 
Sec.  1000.4  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; or
    (2) An on-farm facility operated as part of a single dairy farm 
entity for the separation of cream and skim or the removal of water from 
milk.