§ 1427.52 - Definitions.

The definitions set forth in this section shall be applicable for all purposes of program administration. The terms defined in § 1427.3 of this part and part 1413 of this chapter shall also be applicable.

Baled lint means cotton which has passed through the ginning process and has been baled.

Loose means samples removed from bales of upland cotton for classification purposes which have been rebaled.

Modified seed cotton cleaning equipment means incline, airline or impact seed cotton cleaners which have been modified to remove the smaller trash material normally present in raw (unprocessed) motes.

Person means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or other business entity.

Raw (unprocessed) motes means lint cleaner waste resulting from the ginning process.

Reginned (processed) motes means semi-processed motes which have been further cleaned through one or more stages of modified seed cotton cleaning and one or more stages of lint cleaning equipment (sawtooth lint cleaning) by the gin, an intermediate processor or an end user, which are of a quality suitable, without further processing, for spinning, papermaking or other traditional manufacturing uses, and which have been rebaled, unless converted to an end use in a continuous manufacturing process by the end user who further cleaned the semi-processed motes.

Semi-processed motes means raw motes processed at the gin through one stage of modified seed cotton cleaning equipment, which have been baled, or moved directly into the reginning process.