Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Agriculture and Food
Title R68 - Plant Industry
Rule R68-22 - Industrial Hemp Research
Section R68-22-2 - Definitions

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 68-22-2

Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024

As used in this rule:

(1) "Academic Research" means processing of industrial hemp to discover and enable development of useful processes, information, and products.

(2) "Applicant" means a person, or group of persons from a higher education institution who applies for an Industrial Hemp Research License from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

(3) "Bill of lading" means a detailed list of the items included in a shipment of industrial hemp or products derived from industrial hemp, in the form of a receipt given by the carrier to the person consigning the industrial hemp.

(4) "Certificate of Analysis" or "COA" means a document produced by a testing laboratory listing the quantities of the various analytes for which testing was performed.

(5) "Department" means the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

(6) "Final product" means a reasonably homogenous industrial hemp product in its final packaged form created using the same standard operating procedures and the same formulation.

(7) "Industrial Hemp" means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a THC concentration of not more than 0.3 % on a dry weight basis.

(8) "Industrial Hemp Research License" means a license issued by the department to a higher education institution granting authorization to process or manufacture industrial hemp for academic research purposes.

(9)

(a) "Key Participant" means any person who has a financial interest in the business entity, including members of a limited liability company, a sole proprietor, partners in a partnership, and incorporators or directors of a corporation; and

(b) "key participant" includes an:
(i) individual at an executive level, including a chief executive officer, chief operating officer, or chief financial officers; and

(ii) operation manager, site manager, or any employee who may present a risk of diversion.

(10) "Processing area" means the area where industrial hemp is harvested, extracted, refined, and manufactured.

(11) "Processing research" means research that involves harvesting, extracting, refining, and manufacturing of industrial hemp.

(12) "Raw plant material" or "Raw concentrate" means industrial hemp plant material or concentrate that is not in final product form.

(13) "Research Plan" means a plan stating the objective and purpose of the academic research being proposed, including the methods and procedures for carrying out the research, procedures governing the proposed disposition of industrial hemp material, the name and telephone number for the faculty advisor, the institution's name and address, and the names of each individual involved in the project.

(14) "Security Plan" means a plan to control and limit unauthorized access to industrial hemp and methods used to prevent the inadvertent dissemination of industrial hemp.

(15) "Tetrahydrocannabinol" or "THC" means a delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the cannabinoid identified as CAS# 1972-08-3.

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