[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: 7CFR1005.10]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1005_MILK IN THE APPALACHIAN MARKETING AREA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  1005.10  Producer-handler.

    Producer-handler means a person who:
    (a) Operates a dairy farm and a distributing plant from which there 
is monthly route disposition in the marketing area;
    (b) Receives no fluid milk products, and acquires no fluid milk 
products for route disposition, from sources other than own farm 
production;
    (c) Disposes of no other source milk as Class I milk except by 
increasing the nonfat milk solids content of the fluid milk products 
received from own farm production; and
    (d) Provides proof satisfactory to the market administrator that the 
care and management of the dairy animals and other resources necessary 
to produce all Class I milk handled, and the processing and packaging 
operations are the producer-handler's own enterprise and are operated at 
the producer-handler's own risk.
    (e) Any producer-handler with Class I route dispositions and/or 
transfers of packaged fluid milk products in the marketing area 
described in Sec.  1131.2 of this chapter shall be subject to payments 
into the Order 1131 producer settlement fund on such dispositions 
pursuant to Sec.  1000.76(a) and payments into the Order 1131 
administrative fund provided such dispositions are less than three 
million pounds in the current month and such producer-handler had total 
Class I route dispositions and/or transfers of packaged fluid milk 
products from own farm production of three million pounds or more the 
previous month. If the producer-handler has Class I route dispositions 
and/or transfers of packaged fluid milk products into the marketing area 
described in Sec.  1131.2 of this chapter of three million

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pounds or more during the current month, such producer-handler shall be 
subject to the provisions described in Sec.  1131.7 of this chapter or 
Sec.  1000.76(a).

[64 FR 47960, Sept. 1, 1999, as amended at 71 FR 25498, May 1, 2006]