[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 157 (Monday, August 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49886-49887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-20315]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Foreign Agricultural Service


Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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    The Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today 
accepted and began a review of a petition for trade adjustment 
assistance filed under the Fiscal Year 2011 program by the New 
Hampshire Commercial Fisherman's Association on behalf of northeast 
multi-species fish producers in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. A 
public hearing, requested by the petitioners, was held August 12, 2010, 
so they could present evidence showing that imported ground fish are in 
direct competition with eastern ground fish production in the 
Northeastern region. The Administrator will determine within 40 days 
whether increasing imports of multi-species fish contributed 
importantly to a greater than 15-percent decrease in the average annual 
price of multi-species fish compared to the average of the three 
preceding marketing years. If a determination is affirmative, producers 
who produce and market multi-species fish in Connecticut, Maine, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode 
Island will be eligible to apply to the Farm Service Agency for free 
technical assistance and cash benefits.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trade Adjustment Assistance for 
Farmers Program Staff, FAS, USDA by phone: (202) 720-0638 or (202) 690-
0633; or by e-mail at: [email protected]; or visit

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the TAA for Farmers' Web site: http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/taa.

    Dated: August 3, 2010.
Suzanne Hale,
Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-20315 Filed 8-13-10; 8:45 am]
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