[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: 7CFR947.52]

[Page 377]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 947_IRISH POTATOES GROWN IN MODOC AND SISKIYOU COUNTIES, CALIF., AND 
IN ALL COUNTIES IN OREGON, EXCEPT MALHEUR COUNTY--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 947.52  Issuance of regulations.

    (a) The Secretary shall limit the shipment of potatoes as set forth 
in this subpart whenever he finds from the recommendation and 
information submitted by the committee, or from other available 
information, that it would tend to effectuate the declared policy of the 
act:
    (1) To regulate, in any or all portions of the production area, the 
handling of particular grades, sizes, qualities, or maturities of any or 
all varieties of potatoes, or any combination of the foregoing, during 
any period;
    (2) To regulate the handling of particular grades, sizes, qualities, 
or maturities of any or all varieties of potatoes, or any combination of 
the foregoing during any period, in the States of Idaho and Washington 
and Malheur County in Oregon which had been shipped from the production 
area to specified locations therein for grading or storage pursuant to 
Sec. 947.54.
    (3) To regulate the handling of particular grades, sizes, qualities, 
or maturities of any or all varieties differently, for different 
portions of the production area, for different uses or outlets, for 
potatoes for prepeeling to different markets, for different packs, or 
for any combination of the foregoing, during any period; and
    (4) To regulate the shipment of potatoes by establishing, in terms 
of grades, sizes, or both, minimum standards of quality and maturity.
    (b) The Secretary may amend any regulation issued under this subpart 
whenever he finds that such amendment would tend to effectuate the 
declared policy of the act. The Secretary may also terminate or suspend 
any regulation whenever he finds that such regulation obstructs or no 
longer tends to effectuate the declared policy of the act.
    (c) The Secretary shall notify the committee of any such regulation 
issued pursuant to this section and the committee shall give reasonable 
notice thereof to handlers.

[35 FR 10742, July 2, 1970]