9 CFR § 146.32 - Participation.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t9/s146.32"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "9 CFR § 146.32 - Participation."
title_number: 9
title_name: "Animals and Animal Products"
section_number: "146.32"
section_name: "Participation."
chapter_name: "ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "G"
subchapter_name: "LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT"
part_number: "146"
part_name: "NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR COMMERCIAL POULTRY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4."
regulatory_source: "71 FR 56328, Sept. 26, 2006, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "146"
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# 146.32 Participation.
(a) Participating meat-type chicken slaughter plants shall comply with applicable general provisions of subpart A of this part and the special provisions of this subpart C.
(b) Meat-type chicken slaughter plants that slaughter fewer than 200,000 meat-type chickens in an operating week are exempt from the special provisions of this subpart C.
(c) If spent fowl are slaughtered at meat-type chicken slaughter plants that participate in the Plan, they may participate in the Plan through the provisions of this subpart C.
[71 FR 56328, Sept. 26, 2006, as amended at 79 FR 38766, July 9, 2014]