(a) To be licensed as a certified seed cleaner, seed cleaning establishments must meet the requirements set forth below. - (i) The approval status of all certified conditioners will be reviewed annually by the Wyoming Seed Certification Service. All approved plants are subject to inspection during normal business hours.
- (ii) A certified conditioner must have a designated person in charge of each facility and handling of certified seed. The designated person must be trained and have experience in handling, sampling, and labeling certified seed.
- (iii) All seed conditioning plants, including all seed handling equipment, will be thoroughly cleaned between each seed lot to prevent contamination or varietal mixture.
- (iv) All seed cleaning establishments must keep complete and accurate records showing identity, origin, every process, and every movement of each lot of seed from the time of receipt until delivery. These records must be maintained for 7 (seven) years.
- (v) Federal and state seed laws and Wyoming certification standards must be complied with in the production, cleaning, labeling, sampling, shipment, and sale of certified seed.
- (vi) All seed conditioners shall properly contain weed seed to prevent spread and proliferation of weeds.
- (vii) If no approved seed conditioning plant is located within one-hundred fifty miles (150 miles) hauling distance of a seed grower, a non-approved plant may be approved on a one-time basis only to clean that lot of seed for that particular grower. A thorough inspection must be conducted by the Seed Certification Service and an inspection fee must be paid before that lot of seed may be cleaned.
- (viii) Conditioners must comply with all appropriate regulations and standards outlined in the Wyoming Certified Seed Handbook with respect to conditioning specific crops. The Wyoming Certified Seed Handbook as revised in February 2007 is adopted, but does not include any later amendments or editions. Copies are available for public inspection and may be purchased at cost from the Wyoming Seed Certification Service, 747 Road 9, Powell, Wyoming 82435, http://wyseedcert.com/; or the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, 2219 Carey Avenue, Cheyenne, WY 82002, http://wyagric.state.wy.us/.
(b) All seed cleaning establishments shall adhere to Wyoming seed law and these regulations.
010-51 Wyo. Code R. § 51-15