[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR927.54]

[Page 213]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 927_WINTER PEARS GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 927.54  Exemption certificates.

    (a) As soon as practicable after the beginning of each fiscal period 
the Control Committee shall adopt and announce the procedural rules by 
which exemption certificates may be issued to growers. The Control 
Committee shall determine the percentage which the grades and sizes of 
each variety of pears permitted to be shipped from each district under 
the regulation bears to the total quantity of each variety of pears 
which could be shipped from that district in the absence of regulation. 
An exemption certificate may thereafter be granted to any grower who 
furnishes proof that he will be prevented, because of the regulation in 
effect, from shipping a percentage of a particular variety of his pears 
equal to the percentage of pears of that particular variety permitted to 
be shipped from his district as determined by the Control Committee. 
Such exemption certificate shall permit the growers to ship that 
quantity of the particular variety of pears of the regulated grades and 
sizes of such variety as will enable him to ship as large a percentage 
of such variety of his pears as the average percentage of that 
particular variety of pears that is permitted to be shipped by all 
growers in his district.
    (b) In the event the Control Committee shall determine and report to 
the Secretary that, by reason of general crop failure or other 
extraordinary conditions within a particular district, it is not 
feasible and would not be equitable to issue exemption certificates to 
growers within that district on the basis of the average percentage of 
the pears grown in the district which may be shipped in compliance with 
the requirements of Sec. 927.51, the Secretary may prescribe such other 
basis for the issuance of such certificates to growers within that 
district as he may find to be feasible, equitable, and proper.
    (c) The Secretary shall have power to modify, change, alter, or 
amend any procedural rules and any exemption granted under this section.

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