7 CFR § 81.3 - Definitions.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s81.3"
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title: "7 CFR § 81.3 - Definitions."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "81.3"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "EXPORT AND DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION PROGRAMS"
part_number: "81"
part_name: "PRUNE/DRIED PLUM DIVERSION PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 612c."
regulatory_source: "67 FR 11391, Mar. 14, 2002, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "81"
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# 81.3 Definitions.

(a) *Administrator* means the Administrator of AMS.

(b) *AMS* means the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

(c) *Application* means “Application for Prune Tree Removal Program.”

(d) *Committee* means the Prune Marketing Committee established by the Secretary of Agriculture to locally administer Federal Marketing Order No. 993 (7 CFR part 993), regulating the handling of dried prunes produced in California.

(e) *Diversion* means the removal of prune-plum trees after approval of applications by the Committee through June 30, 2002.

(f) *Producer* means an individual, partnership, association, or corporation in the State of California who grows prune/plums that are dehydrated into dried plums for market.

(g) *Removal* means that the prune-plum trees are no longer standing and capable of producing a crop, and the roots of the trees have been removed. The producer can accomplish removal by any means the producer desires. Grafting another type of tree to the rootstock remaining after removing the prune/plum tree would not qualify as removal under this program.