[Federal Register: September 4, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 170)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
Designation for the Amarillo (TX), Cairo (IL), Louisiana, North
Carolina, and Belmond (IA) Areas, and Opportunity for Designation To
Provide Official Services in the North Central Texas Region
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We are announcing designation of the following organizations
to provide official services under the United States Grain Standards
Act, as amended (USGSA): Amarillo Grain Exchange, Inc. (Amarillo);
Cairo Grain Inspection Agency, Inc. (Cairo); Louisiana Department of
Agriculture and Forestry (Louisiana); North Carolina Department of
Agriculture (North Carolina); and D. R. Schaal Agency, Inc. (Schaal).
Amarillo has asked GIPSA to amend its designation to remove the north
central Texas region from their assigned geographic area. GIPSA is
asking for persons interested in providing official services in north
central Texas, currently served by Amarillo, to submit an application
for designation.
DATES: October 1, 2007 is the effective date for the designations.
Applications for the north central Texas area must be received on or
before October 4, 2007.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit applications for designation to
provide official services in the North Central Texas Region. You may
submit applications by any of the following methods:
Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver to Karen Guagliardo,
Review Branch Chief, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, Room 1647-S,
1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250.
Fax: Send by facsimile transmission to (202) 690-2755,
attention: Karen Guagliardo.
E-mail: Send via electronic mail to
Karen.W.Guagliardo@usda.gov.
Mail: Send hardcopy to Karen Guagliardo, Review Branch
Chief, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, STOP 3604, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-3604.
Read Applications: All applications will be available for public
inspection at the office above during regular business hours (7 CFR
1.27(b)).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Guagliardo at 202-720-7312, e-
mail Karen.W.Guagliardo@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the March 7, 2007, Federal Register (72
FR 10138-10139), we requested applications for designation to provide
official services in the geographic areas assigned to the official
agencies named above. Applications were due by April 6, 2007.
Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Schaal were the
sole applicants for designation to provide official services in the
entire area currently assigned to them, so GIPSA did not ask for
additional comments on them.
We evaluated all available information regarding the designation
criteria in Section 7(f)(l)(A) of USGSA (7 U.S.C. 79 (f)) and Section
7(f)(l)(B), determined that Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North Carolina,
and Schaal are able to provide official services in the geographic
areas specified in March 7, 2007, Federal Register, for which they
applied. These designation actions to provide official services are
effective October 1, 2007, and terminate September 30, 2010, for
Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Schaal. Interested
persons may obtain official services by calling the telephone numbers
listed below.
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Headquarters location and
Official agency telephone Designation start-end
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Amarillo................................. Amarillo, TX, 806-372-8511.. 10/01/2007-9/30/2010
Additional Location: Guymon,
OK.
Cairo.................................... Cairo, IL, 618-734-0689..... 10/01/2007-9/30/2010
Louisiana................................ Baton Rouge, LA, 337-948- 10/01/2007-9/30/2010
0230.
North Carolina........................... Raleigh, NC, 919-733-4491... 10/01/2007-9/30/2010
Schaal................................... Belmond, IA, 641-444-3122... 10/01/2007-9/30/2010
Additional Location: Albert
Lea, MN.
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Section 7(f)(1) of the United States Grain Standards Act, as
amended (USGSA), authorizes GIPSA's Administrator to designate a
qualified applicant to provide official services in a specified area
after determining that the applicant is better able than any other
applicant to provide such official services (7 U.S.C. 79 (f)(1)).
Section 7(g) (1) of USGSA provides that designations of official
agencies will terminate not later than three years and may be renewed
according to the criteria and procedures prescribed in Section 7(f) of
USGSA.
Amarillo is currently designated for October 1, 2004 through
September 30, 2007, and this notice announces their designation
effective October 1, 2007. Amarillo has asked GIPSA to remove the north
central Texas region from its assigned geographical area. The north
central Texas region is comprised of the following nineteen counties:
Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Cottle, Fisher, Foard, Hardeman,
Haskell, Jones, King, Knox, Nolan, Shackelford, Stonewall, Taylor,
Throckmorton, Wichita, and Wilbarger.
Opportunity for Designation
Interested persons may apply for designation to provide official
services in the geographic area specified above under the provisions of
Section 7(f) of the USGSA 97 U.S.C. 79(f)(2)), and 9 CFR 800.196(d)
regulations. To apply for designation, contact the Compliance Division
at the address listed above for forms and information, or obtain
applications at the GIPSA Web Site http://www.gipsa.usda.gov.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.
James E. Link,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
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