The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Alternative method of destruction--Any means other than the specified method of cotton stalk destruction for a designated zone mentioned in §20.22 of this title (relating to Stalk Destruction Requirements).
2. (2) Certificate--A phytosanitary certificate issued by an authorized representative of the department allowing the movement of plants or plant products, or a document issued by an authorized representative of the department allowing the movement of equipment or vehicles.
3. (3) Certified Cotton Producer Organization--An organization approved and certified under the requirements established by the National Cotton Council.
4. (4) Compliance agreement--A written agreement signed by a person engaged in growing, distributing, handling or moving regulated articles whereby, he or she agrees to comply with conditions specified in the agreement concerning the basis upon which a certificate may be issued for movement of regulated articles or for the purposes of compliance with applicable rules.
5. (5) Cotton--All parts of cotton and wild cotton plants of the genera Gossypium and Thurberia.
6. (6) Cotton destruction date--The date established in this chapter for the destruction of cotton stalks.
7. (7) Cotton lint--All forms of raw ginned cotton except linters and gin waste.
8. (8) Cotton products--Seed cotton, cotton lint, linters, oil mill waste, gin waste, squares, bolls, gin trash, cotton seed, cottonseed hulls, and all other forms of unmanufactured cotton fiber.
9. (9) Cotton seed--The seed of the cotton plant, separated from lint.
10. (10) Destroyed, or destruction--Killed by cutting or dislodging the roots, burying the entire plant, or by an alternative method which completely kills the leaves, stems, flowers, fruit, and roots of the plant. In zones with a shred and/or plow destruction requirement, shredded cotton will be considered destroyed.
11. (11) Eradicated area--An area apparently free of boll weevil or, for which scientific documentation acceptable to the department has been provided that indicates that no boll weevils were captured for a period of at least one cotton growing season by weevil pheromone traps operated by the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation or other governmental agency.
12. (12) Eradication area--A defined area in which a boll weevil eradication program has been initiated.
13. (13) Foundation--The Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc.
14. (14) Functionally eradicated area--An area meeting the trapping criteria for a suppressed area with no confirmed evidence of boll weevil reproduction occurring in the area and no oviposition in squares, and in which the movement of regulated articles presents a threat to the success of the boll weevil eradication program. The boll weevil population must be equal to or less than an average of 0.001 boll weevils per trap per week for the cotton growing season as measured by boll weevil pheromone traps operated by the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation or other governmental agency.
15. (15) Gin motes--Short fragments of unmanufactured cotton fiber removed from lint cleaners after ginning cotton.
16. (16) Gin trash--All material produced during the cleaning and ginning of seed cotton, except lint, linters, cotton seed, and gin waste.
17. (17) Gin waste--All forms of unmanufactured waste cotton fiber resulting from the ginning of seed cotton, including gin motes.
18. (18) Hostable cotton --Cotton that has fruiting structures such as buds, squares, flowers or bolls present.
19. (19) Linters--Residual unmanufactured cotton fiber separated from cottonseed after the lint has been removed.
20. (20) Non-hostable cotton--Cotton that is free of fruiting structures such as buds, squares, flowers or bolls.
21. (21) No-till cotton field--A field in which the soil is left undisturbed from the time the cotton crop is harvested until the new crop is planted in narrow slots and weed control is accomplished using herbicides.
22. (22) Oil mill waste--Waste products, including linters, derived from the milling of cotton seed.
23. (23) Plow--To dislodge or sever the roots of plants in a manner which prevents further growth. Equipment used to accomplish this could include a stalk puller, any type of plow, or similar implement.

24. (24) Protection plan--A plan developed for the purpose of mitigating, with the goal of preventing, boll weevil infestation and establishment in an area. Mitigating measures may include, but are not limited to, the following:

    1. (A) approved insecticide field treatment of cotton and cotton products prior to delivery to an area or a gin;
    2. (B) requirements for moving, handling, storage and treatment or use of approved insecticide applications to regulated articles; and
    3. (C) monitoring of boll weevils at a specified site(s).
25. (25) Regrowth cotton--Cotton that has not been completely destroyed in such a way as to absolutely prevent further growth.
26. (26) Restricted Area --An area designated as suppressed, functionally eradicated, or eradicated of boll weevils, as those terms are defined in this section.
27. (27) Seed cotton--All forms of un-ginned cotton from which the seed has not been separated.
28. (28) Stalk puller--An implement which dislodges the roots of cotton plants by pulling up the stalks.
29. (29) Standing stalks--Original, undestroyed cotton plants growing in a field before or after harvesting.
30. (30) Suppressed area--An area in which some boll weevil reproduction may be present in the area or a portion thereof, and in which the movement of regulated articles presents a threat to the success of the boll weevil eradication program. The boll weevil population must be equal to or less than 0.025 boll weevils per trap per week for the cotton-growing season as measured by boll weevil pheromone traps operated by the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation or other governmental agency.
31. (31) Trap--A type of adult boll weevil pheromone trap approved by the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation.
32. (32) Treatment--The act of eliminating possible cotton pest infestation(s) by means of cleaning, spraying or fumigation to eliminate the infestation.
33. (33) Volunteer cotton--Cotton developing after the growing season from incidental seeds.

Source Note:The provisions of this §20.1 adopted to be effective September 2, 1996, 21 TexReg 7967; amended to be effective August 27, 2000, 25 TexReg 8023; amended to be effective July 9, 2001, 26 TexReg 4996.