[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: 7CFR981.47]

[Page 521-522]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 981_ALMONDS GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 981.47  Method of establishing salable and reserve percentages.

    Whenever the Secretary finds, from the recommendations and 
supporting information supplied by the Board or from any other available 
information, that to designate the percentages of almonds during any 
crop year which

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shall be salable almonds and reserve almonds would tend to effectuate 
the declared policy of the act, he shall designate such percentages. 
Except as provided in Sec. 981.50 the salable and reserve percentages 
shall each be applied to the kernel weight of almonds received by a 
handler for his own account during the crop year. In establishing such 
salable and reserve percentages, the Secretary shall give consideration 
to the ratio of estimated trade demand (domestic plus export, less the 
handler carryover available to satisfy trade demand plus the desirable 
handler carryover at the end of the crop year) to the estimated 
production of marketable almonds (all expressed in terms of kernel 
weight) or the allocation quantity (marketable production plus almonds 
diverted to oil or feed when eligible for reserve satisfaction) 
whichever is applicable; the recommendation submitted to him by the 
Board; and such other information as he deems appropriate. The total of 
the salable and reserve percentages established each crop year shall 
equal 100 percent.

[41 FR 26853, June 30, 1976, as amended at 61 FR 32921, June 26, 1996]