1600.3—Open meetings.
Except as provided in § 160.15, rosin is the vitreous, well-strained, transparent, solid resin which (a) remains after the volatile terpene oils are distilled from (1) the oleoresin collected from living trees or (2) the oleoresin extracted from wood; or (b) remains after distillation of the fatty acids from tall oil recovered from wood in the course of its chemical disintegration to produce cellulose. In addition to the free resin acids, rosin may contain relatively small proportions of fatty acids, resin esters and other esters, unsaponifiable resenes, and non-resinous foreign matter naturally occurring therein.
Prior to inspection at the request of the producer, containers of naval stores, other than tank cars, shall have marked thereon a designation by such producer of the kind or identity of the product in accordance with the standard of identity provided therefor by or under the act.
Except when batch sampling is authorized at an eligible processing plant using licensed inspectors, samples of naval stores to be used for official inspection and certification shall be taken direct from the commercial containers holding such naval stores by or under the immediate supervision of the inspector at the time of inspection.
The interested person shall provide any labor necessary for marking the containers, after the contents have been sampled and graded, at the direction of the official inspector. The container of an article which does not conform with any United States Standard for naval stores as to kind or grade, shall not be marked or certified, and any unauthorized marks appearing on the container shall be removed.
Any container so filled or packed as to conceal the fact that it contains anything other than naval stores within the meaning of the act or the provisions in this part, and any naval stores in a container deemed by an official inspector to be unsuitable for use as a container of naval stores in commerce, shall not be accepted for classification or grading.
The sampling or acceptance of any sample of naval stores by an official inspector for use in grading and certifying the same at the request of an interested person, or the placing of any incorrect classification or grade marks upon the container thereof, or the issue of any incorrect certificate inadvertently to cover the contents, because of inability of the inspector to observe the true condition of the naval stores, shall not prevent the correction or recall of any such certificate, nor relieve the interested person from responsibility for the condition of the article or its container.
In case any mark placed on a container of rosin by or under the direction of an official inspector has become illegible, he will make such examination before remarking as may be necessary to establish the proper grade or identity of the rosin. No fee will be charged for this service, but the cost of handling, opening, spiking, and closing the container shall be borne by the interested person.
No mark placed upon any container of naval stores by or at the direction of an official inspector shall be obliterated, covered up, defaced, or otherwise made illegible, except under authority of an official inspector.
Any marking appearing on a container to be used for naval stores, relating to the kind, classification, grade, certification, or method of inspection of naval stores shall be removed by the user whenever such marking does not in all respects describe the kind, classification, grade, certification, and method of inspection of the naval stores to be placed therein.
Any naval stores produced at an eligible processing plant, as herein defined, may be inspected, classified, graded, and certified by a licensed inspector, after the accredited processor has applied to and has been granted a permit by the Administrator to use a licensed inspector.
Applications for licenses to inspect and permits to have inspections made by licensed inspectors shall be made to the Administrator upon forms provided for the purposes. Each such application shall fully and truly state the information therein required and shall be signed by the applicant.
(a)
Except as provided for in § 1600.6 every portion of every meeting of the Board shall be open to public observation. Observation does not include participation or disruptive conduct by observers, and persons engaging in such conduct will be removed from the meeting. Documents being considered at meetings of the Board may be obtained subject to the exemptions set forth in § 1600.8.
(b)
Board members shall not jointly conduct or dispose of official Board business other than in accordance with this part.
(c)
The Secretary of the Board shall be responsible for assuring that ample space, sufficient visibility, and adequate acoustics are provided for public observation of meetings of the Board.