[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR300.4]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 300_AGENCY MISSION AND ORGANIZATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 300.4  Organizational terminology; personnel.

    (a) Unless otherwise specifically provided or required in the 
context of a particular part of the regulations:

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    Administrator means the Administrator of the Food Safety and 
Inspection Service or any other officer or employee of the Department to 
whom authority has been or may in the future be delegated to act in his 
or her stead.
    Circuit Supervisor means the official of the Inspection Service who 
is assigned responsibility for supervising the conduct of inspection at 
a specific group of official establishments.
    Inspection program, inspection service, or program means the 
organizational unit within the Department with responsibility for 
carrying out the FMIA, the PPIA, and the EPIA.
    Inspection program employee, inspection service employee, or program 
employee means an inspector or other government employee who is 
authorized to conduct any inspection or perform any other duty in 
connection with the inspection program, inspection service, or program.
    Inspection service supervisor or Inspection program supervisor means 
an inspection program or service employee or program employee who is 
delegated authority to exercise supervision over one or more phases of 
the inspection program.
    Inspector means an inspector of the inspection program, inspection 
service, and program. (``Inspector'' includes an employee or official of 
the Federal government or the government of a State or territory or the 
District of Columbia who is authorized by the Administrator to inspect 
meat and meat products or poultry and poultry products under the 
authority of the FMIA or the PPIA, respectively, under an agreement 
entered into between the Administrator and the appropriate State or 
other agency.)
    Inspector in charge or IIC means an inspection program employee, 
inspection service employee, or program employee who has primary 
responsibility for inspection program functions at a particular official 
establishment.
    Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or 
his or her delegate.
    (b) FSIS has replaced the regional office and import field office 
structure referenced in some parts of subchapter A of this chapter. 
Authority previously delegated to Regional Directors now is delegated to 
district managers; authority previously delegated to area supervisors 
and import supervisors now is delegated to inspection program 
supervisors in the successor district offices.

[69 FR 253, Jan. 5, 2004]