Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › SEEDS AND PLANTING STOCK CERTIFICATION › Chapter 16-319 - Forest tree seed certification › Section 16-319-020 - Forest reproductive material certification standards

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Purpose. The purpose of certification of
				forest reproductive material is to make available reproductive material
				properly identified by species or species and cultivar, and by source or source
				and origin.
(2) Definitions:
(a) "Applicant" means the person or
				organization who submits application for certification of forest reproductive
				material to certifying agency and who assumes responsibility for compliance
				with these standards.
(b) "Audit"
				means periodic examination and check by certifying agency of any part or all of
				the records and procedures specified in field standards and conditioning
				standards, and of additional records pertinent to inventory and distribution of
				reproductive material including verification of corresponding physical
				inventory to assure that no significant errors or omissions exist.
(c) "Batch" means all or part of a lot of
				reproductive material of a single species collected during one crop season from
				within stated breeding zone(s) or from within stated five hundred foot
				elevation increment(s) in stated seed zone(s) that is collected or processed at
				one time.
(d) "Breeding zone" means
				a specific designated unit of land, the description of which is on file at the
				certifying agency, for which an improved population of trees of a specific
				species or species cross is being produced.
(e) "Buyer" means person who first receives
				reproductive material from the collector.
(f) "Certificate of genetic identity" means a
				document furnished by the producer on demand and verified by the certifying
				agency describing the ancestry and breeding behavior of a lot of reproductive
				material.
(g) "Certification of
				reproductive material" means execution by certifying agency of field
				inspection, plant/warehouse inspection and/or audit to accomplish the purpose
				described in subsection (1) of this section.
(h) "Certifying agency" means the designated
				agent of the state agency: In Washington state, the designated agent is the
				Washington State Crop Improvement Association.
(i) "Certificate of provenance" means a
				document issued by certifying agency which verifies source and origin of
				reproductive material by field inspection and audit. (Only certificates of
				provenance are issued to satisfy O.E.C.D.)
(j) "Character" means a distinctive trait,
				but not necessarily an invariable feature, exhibited by all individuals of a
				group and capable of being described or measured: E.g., growth; form; color;
				resistance to disease, insects, weather, animals, etc.
(k) "Code" means a unique identification of a
				group of the producer's pertinent records about a lot of forest reproductive
				material.
(l) "Collector" means a
				person who collects forest reproductive material at its source.
(m) "Elevation" means altitude above sea
				level and is divided in five hundred foot increments as shown below, or may
				mean appropriate elevational bands as provided for under code or breeding zone.
0 -
500 feet - Code 05
2501 - 3000 feet
- Code 30
501 -
1000 feet - Code 10
3001 - 3500 feet
- Code 35
1001 -
1500 feet - Code 15
3501 - 4000 feet
- Code 40
1501 -
2000 feet - Code 20
4001 - 4500 feet
- Code 45
2001 -
2500 feet - Code 25
4501 - 5000 feet
- Code 50
and so forth.
(n)
				"Field" inspection means observation by certifying agency of all activities and
				records involved in propagation, collection, buying, production, and
				transportation of forest reproductive material to assure compliance with field
				standards.
(o) "Forest reproductive
				material" means plant material of genera and species of trees which will be
				used for forestry.
(p) "Genetic
				identity" means the ancestry and breeding background of selected and tested
				classes only of the forest reproductive material.
(q) "Genetic superiority" means that forest
				reproductive material originated from tree(s) whose superiority in one or more
				characters important to forestry has been proven by tests conducted in
				specified environments.
(r)
				"Location" means description by seed zone or portion thereof and elevation
				and/or breeding zone or code.
(s)
				"Legal description" means legal cadastral survey subdivision.
(t) "Lot" means a homogeneous quantity of
				forest reproductive material.
(i) For tested
				and selected classes, it is of a single species, cultivar, or cross collected
				during one crop season from a distinctively described and recorded population
				of trees.
(ii) For source
				identified class, it is a single species collected during one crop season from
				within stated seed zone(s) and from within five hundred foot elevation
				increment(s) or breeding zones or appropriate codes.
(iii) For an audit class, it is a single
				species collected during one crop season from within stated seed zone(s) and
				from within five hundred foot elevation increment(s).
(iv) Lots shall be identified by number
				and/or code or breeding zone.
(u) "Origin" means the location of the
				indigenous parents; for nonindigenous parents, it is the location from which
				the seed or plants were originally introduced.
(v) "Plant/warehouse inspection" means
				observation by certifying agency of all activities and records involved in
				receiving, processing, storage and labeling of forest reproductive material to
				assure compliance with conditioning standards.
(w) "Producer" means person, company, bureau
				or agency with overall responsibility for producing forest reproductive
				material.
(x) "Provenance" means
				the original geographic source of seed, pollen or propagules.
(y) "Reproductive material" means seed,
				pollen, trees, cuttings, scions, etc., originating from forest trees.
(z) "Seed zone" means a geographic area
				delineated on western forest tree seed council's tree seed zone map published
				July 1973, or similarly authoritative maps of seed zones as approved by
				certifying agency.
(aa) "Source"
				means the location of the immediate parents, the origin of which may be
				indigenous, nonindigenous, or unknown.
(bb) "Test" means evaluation of parents by
				comparing the performance of their offspring under more controlled conditions
				that exist for the parent(s) or other applicable tests which evaluate specific
				character(s) of the parents or the offspring.
(cc) "Unit of measure" means a consistent
				volume of measure, i.e., bushels, pounds, grams, number, cubic centimeters,
				etc.