[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: 7CFR982.58]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 982_HAZELNUTS GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 982.58  Research, promotion, and market development.

    (a) General. The Board, with the approval of the Secretary, may 
establish or provide for the establishment of projects involving 
production research, marketing research and development, and marketing 
promotion, including paid advertising, designed to assist, improve, or 
promote the marketing, distribution, consumption, or efficient 
production of hazelnuts. The Board may also provide for crediting the 
pro rata expense assessment obligations of a handler with such portion 
of such handler's direct expenditures for such marketing promotion 
including paid advertising as may be authorized. The expenses of such 
projects shall be paid from funds collected pursuant to Sec. 982.61, 
Sec. 982.63, or credited pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section.

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    (b) Creditable expenditures. The Board, with the approval of the 
Secretary, may provide for crediting all or any portion of a handler's 
direct expenditures for marketing promotion including paid advertising, 
that promotes the sale of hazelnuts, hazelnut products, or their uses. 
No handler shall receive credit for any allowable direct expenditures 
that would exceed the total of the handler's assessment obligation which 
is attributable to that portion of the handler's assessment designated 
for marketing promotion including paid advertising.
    (c) Rules and regulations. Before any projects involving marketing 
promotion, including paid advertising and the crediting of the pro rata 
expense assessment obligation of handlers is undertaken pursuant to this 
section, the Secretary, after recommendation by the Board, shall 
prescribe appropriate rules and regulations as are necessary to 
effectively administer such projects.

[51 FR 29549, Aug. 19, 1986, as amended at 61 FR 17560, Apr. 22, 1996]

                        Expenses and Assessments