[Federal Register: October 31, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 211)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 62027-62028]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
7 CFR Parts 1124 and 1131
[Docket No. AO-368-A32, AO-271-A37; DA-03-04]
Milk in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona-Las Vegas Marketing
Areas; Reconvening of Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Tentative
Marketing Agreements and Orders
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7 CFR Part Marketing area AO Nos.
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1124....................... Pacific Northwest.......... AO-368-A32
1131....................... Arizona-Las Vegas.......... AO-271-A37
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AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of reconvened public hearing on proposed
rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the reconvening of the hearing which
began on September 23, 2003, in Tempe, Arizona, to consider proposals
to amend the producer-handler provisions of the Arizona-Las Vegas and
Pacific Northwest orders and to consider elimination of the ability to
simultaneously pool the same milk on the Arizona-Las Vegas milk order
and on a State-operated order that provides for marketwide pooling. The
proposals
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seek to, among other things, end the regulatory exemption of producer-
handlers from the pooling and pricing provisions of these two milk
marketing orders if their Class I route distribution exceeds three
million pounds of milk per month in either order.
DATES: The hearing will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, November 17,
2003.
ADDRESSES: The reconvened hearing will be held at the Doubletree Hotel,
Seattle Airport, 18740 Pacific Highway S., Seattle, Washington 98188,
telephone: (206) 246-8600.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack Rower, Marketing Specialist,
Order Formulation and Enforcement Branch, USDA/AMS/Dairy Programs, STOP
0231-Room 2971, 1400 Independence Avenue, Washington, DC 20250-0231, (202) 720-2357, e-mail address jack.rower@usda.gov.
Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special
accommodations should contact Gary Jablonski at (425) 487-6009 or gjablonski@fmmaseattle.com before the hearing begins.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Prior documents in this proceeding:
Notice of Hearing: Issued July 31, 2003; published August 6, 2003
(68 FR 46505).
Correction to Notice of Hearing: Issued August 20, 2003; published
August 26, 2003 (68 FR 51202).
Notice is hereby given that the hearing which was adjourned in
Tempe, Arizona, on September 25, 2003, by the Administrative Law Judge
designated to hold said hearing and preside thereof, will reconvene in
session at 8:30 a.m., November 17, 2003, at the Doubletree Hotel,
Seattle Airport, 18740 Pacific Highway S., Seattle, Washington 98188.
At the reconvened hearing, additional testimony will be received on
proposed amendments 1 through 5, listed in the initial hearing notice
(68 FR 46505) as corrected (68 FR 51202) to the tentative marketing
agreements and to the orders regulating the handling of milk in the
Arizona-Las Vegas and Pacific Northwest marketing areas.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Parts 1124 and 1131
Milk marketing orders.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.
Dated: October 27, 2003.
A.J. Yates,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 03-27413 Filed 10-30-03; 8:45 am]
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