[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7, Parts 700 to 899]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR729.312]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 729--PEANUTS--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart C--Marketing Cards, Marketings, Penalties, and Assessments
 
Sec. 729.312  Reduction or waiver of penalty.

    (a) Reduction or waiver of penalty. The county committee may reduce 
or waive any penalty required to be assessed by this subpart in cases in 
which the county committee, with concurrence of the State committee, 
determines that the violations upon which the penalties were based were 
unintentional or without knowledge on the part of the parties concerned.
    (b) Time of reduction or waiver. A penalty may be reduced or waived 
by an authorized official or committee either before or after it has 
been formally assessed. If the reduction or waiver is made before formal 
assessment, the notice of assessment shall state the amount of reduction 
or waiver and the basis upon which the reduction or waiver was made.
    (c) Reconsideration or appeal. Any person against whom a penalty is 
assessed under this subpart may, through a request for reconsideration 
or through an appeal, as applicable, request that the penalty be reduced 
or waived.