Imported Seed and Screenings

We are amending the ``Imported Seed'' regulations by moving the regulations to a different chapter in the Code of Federal Regulations; establishing a seed analysis program with Canada; and allowing U.S. companies that import seed for cleaning or screenings for processing to enter into compliance agreements with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. These changes are being made to reflect recent amendments to the Federal Seed Act and the transfer of responsibility for the import provisions of the act from the Agricultural Marketing Service to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. These changes will bring the imported seed regulations into agreement with the amended Federal Seed Act, eliminate the need for sampling shipments of Canadian-origin seed at the border, and allow certain seed importers to clean seed without the direct monitoring of an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service inspector.