Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › SEEDS AND PLANTING STOCK CERTIFICATION › Chapter 16-306 - Hemp program › Section 16-306-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
"Acceptable hemp THC level" means the application of the
				  measurement of uncertainty to the reported THC concentration level on a dry
				  weight basis producing a distribution or range that includes 0.3 percent or
				  less.
"Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018" means sections 7605,
				  10113, 10114, and 12619 of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018,
				  P.L.
				  115-334.
"Applicant" means a person who submits an application for a
				  hemp producer license to participate in the hemp program as required under this
				  chapter.
"Contiguous land area" means a specific field with designated
				  boundaries that is planted with hemp. Separate parcels connected only by thin
				  or narrow plantings of hemp or separated by physical barriers such as ditches
				  or roads are not considered contiguous for the purposes of this rule.
"Continuous licensing" means the hemp producer licensee
				  renews their license annually prior to expiration, such that the licensee is
				  continuously operating under a valid license.
"Corrective action plan" means a plan by the department for a
				  licensed hemp producer to correct a negligent violation of, or noncompliance
				  with, a hemp production plan, its terms, or any other regulation set forth
				  under this chapter.
"Department" means the Washington state department of
				  agriculture.
"Destroyed" means incinerated, tilled under the soil, made
				  into compost, or rendered nonretrievable in another manner approved by the
				  department.
"Disposal" means the material is collected for destruction by
				  a person authorized to handle cannabis such as a Drug Enforcement Agency
				  (DEA)-registered reverse distributor, or in another manner approved by the
				  department.
"Hemp" means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of the
				  plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids,
				  isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a
				  delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a
				  dry weight basis.
"Hemp processor" means a person who takes possession of raw
				  hemp material with the intent to modify, package, or sell a transitional or
				  finished hemp product.
"Key participant" means a person or persons who have a direct
				  or indirect financial interest in the entity producing hemp, such as an owner
				  or partner in a partnership. A key participant also includes persons in a
				  corporate entity at executive levels including chief executive officer, chief
				  operating officer and chief financial officer. This does not include such
				  management as farm, field, or shift managers.
"Legal description" means a method of locating or describing
				  land in relation to the public land survey system such as section, township,
				  and range.
"Licensee" means any person who holds a license from the
				  department to grow or produce hemp in Washington state.
"Lot" refers to a contiguous area in a field, greenhouse, or
				  indoor growing structure containing the same variety or strain of cannabis
				  throughout. In addition, "lot" is a common term in agriculture that refers to
				  the batch or contiguous, homogeneous whole of a product being sold to a single
				  buyer at a single time. Under the terms of this chapter, "lot" is to be defined
				  by the producer in terms of farm location, field acreage, and variety.
"Measurement of uncertainty" means the parameter, associated
				  with the result of a measurement that characterizes the dispersion of the
				  values that could reasonably be attributed to the particular quantity subject
				  to measurement. The measurement of uncertainty is similar to a margin of error.
				  When the measurement of uncertainty, normally expressed as a +/- with a number,
				  (e.g., +/- 0.05) is combined with the reported measurement, it produces a range
				  and the actual measurement has a known probability of falling within that
				  range.
"Microgreen" means an immature nonflowering hemp plant
				  harvested for sale or distribution at fewer than 12 inches in height.
"Process" means the processing, compounding, or conversion of
				  hemp into hemp commodities or products.
"Produce" or "production" means the planting, cultivation,
				  growing, or harvesting of hemp, including hemp seed.
"Registered land area" means a contiguous land area,
				  including greenhouses and storage areas registered with the department as a
				  condition of licensing, on which a licensee will conduct licensed activities. A
				  registered land area may include more than one field, greenhouse, or storage
				  area so long as those fields, greenhouses, or storage areas are at the same
				  physical address.
"Remediation" means the process by which a licensed hemp
				  producer transforms noncompliant plants into useful and compliant
				  material.
"Storage area" means any area, building, plant or facility
				  registered with the department in which a licensee plans to store hemp.
"THC concentration" means the percent of total delta-9
				  tetrahy-drocannabinol, which is the conversion of delta-9
				  tetrahydrocannabi-nolic acid into THC.