[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR729.408]

[Page 212-213]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 729--PEANUTS--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart D--Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements
 
Sec. 729.408  Examination of records and reports.

    The Deputy Administrator, the Director of the Tobacco and Peanuts 
Division, the FSA State Executive Director, or their designees, and all 
auditors and agents of the Office of Inspector General, United States 
Department of Agriculture (USDA) or the General Accounting Office are 
authorized to examine any records of any producer, or handler, or person 
buying or processing peanuts as deemed necessary to enforce the peanut 
poundage quota program and shall be allowed access to such records. Upon 
a request for such examination, any person who dries farmers stock 
peanuts by artificial means for a producer, any buyer, warehouseman, 
processor, or common carrier of peanuts, any broker or dealer in 
peanuts, any farmer engaged in the production of peanuts, any agent 
marketing peanuts for a producer or acquiring peanuts for a buyer or 
association, any person engaged in the business of cleaning, shelling, 
crushing, or salting peanuts or manufacturing peanut products, or any 
person owning or operating a peanut combine, shall make

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available for examination such books, papers, automated records, 
electronic records, accounts, correspondence, contracts, documents, and 
memoranda as are under the control of the person receiving the request 
which any person hereby authorized to examine records has reason to 
believe are relevant to any matter which relates to the provisions of 
this part. Any person who fails to provide such access shall be subject 
to a penalty payable to CCC in amount up to, as determined by the Deputy 
Administrator, the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of 
peanuts involved by the quota support rate for the applicable crop year.