[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR982.45]

[Page 526]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 982_HAZELNUTS GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  982.45  Establishment of grade and size regulations.

    (a) Minimum standards. No handler shall handle any inshell or 
shelled hazelnuts unless such inshell hazelnuts meet requirements of 
Oregon No. 1 grade and medium size (as defined in the Oregon Grade 
Standards Hazelnuts In Shell), and such shelled hazelnuts meet such 
requirements as are established by the Secretary on the basis of a 
recommendation of the Board, except as may be otherwise provided in 
Sec.  982.57. These minimum standards may be modified by the Secretary 
on the basis of a recommendation of the Board or other information 
whenever he finds that such modification would tend to effectuate the 
declared policy of the act. Such minimum standards and the provisions of 
this part relating to the administration thereof shall continue in 
effect irrespective of whether the season average price of hazelnuts is 
above the parity level specified in section 2(1) of the act.
    (b) Additional grade and size regulations. When the season average 
price of hazelnuts is not determined to be above parity, the Secretary 
may establish additional grade and size regulations for inshell 
hazelnuts in the form of a more restrictive minimum standard than that 
specified in paragraph (a) of this section, or pack specifications as to 
grades and sizes that may be handled, if he finds, on the basis of a 
recommendation of the Board or other information, that such regulations 
would tend to effectuate the declared policy of the act.

[24 FR 6185, Aug. 1, 1959. Redesignated at 26 FR 12751, Dec. 30, 1961, 
and amended at 37 FR 589, Jan. 14, 1972]