[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 7CFR989.26]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 989_RAISINS PRODUCED FROM GRAPES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table 
of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 989.26  Establishment and membership.

    A Raisin Administrative Committee is hereby established consisting 
of 47 members of whom 35 shall represent producers, 10 shall represent 
handlers, 1 shall represent the cooperative bargaining association(s) 
and 1 shall be a public member. The producer members shall be selected 
as follows:
    (a) Producer members representing the cooperative marketing 
association(s) shall be members of such association(s) engaged in the 
handling of raisins, each of which acquired not less than 10 percent of 
the total raisin acquisitions during the preceding crop year, and those 
members shall be equal to the product, rounded to the nearest whole 
number, obtained by multiplying 35 by the ratio the cooperative 
marketing association(s) raisin acquisitions are to the acquisitions of 
all handlers during the preceding crop year.
    (b) Producer members representing cooperative bargaining 
association(s) shall be members of such associations, and the number of 
those members shall be equal to the product, rounded to the nearest 
whole number, obtained by multiplying 35 by the ratio the raisins 
acquired by handlers from bargaining association members are to the 
total acquisitions of all handlers during the preceding crop year.
    (c) All other producer members who shall not be members of a 
cooperative bargaining association(s), cooperative marketing 
association(s) engaged in the handling of raisins which acquired 10 
percent or more of the total acquisitions during the preceding crop 
year, nor sold for cash to cooperative marketing association(s), shall 
represent all producers not defined in paragraph (a) or (b) of this 
section and shall be selected in the number and, when appropriate, for 
the districts as designated in the rules and regulations.
    (d) The handler members shall be divided into two groups and include 
the following:
    (1) Handler members shall be selected from and represent cooperative 
marketing association(s) engaged in the handling of raisins each of 
which acquired not less than 10 percent of the total raisin acquisitions 
during the preceding crop year, and the number of those members shall be 
equal to the product, rounded to the nearest whole number, obtained by 
multiplying 10 by the ratio of the cooperative marketing association(s) 
raisin acquisitions are to the total acquisitions of all handlers during 
the preceding crop year.
    (2) The remaining handler members shall be selected from and 
represent all other handlers, which would include all independent 
handlers and small cooperative marketing association(s) who acquired 
less than 10 percent of the total raisin acquisitions during the 
preceding crop year. Handler nominees for this group shall be nominated 
by all handlers in the group in a manner determined by the Committee, 
with the approval of the Secretary, and specified in the rules and 
regulations.
    (e) The ``cooperative'' bargaining association'(s) member shall be 
selected from the cooperative bargaining association(s). The public 
member shall be nominated by the Committee and selected by the Secretary 
as public member.
    (f) For each member of the Committee there shall be an alternate

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member who shall have the same qualifications as the member for whom he 
is an alternate.

[48 FR 32974, July 20, 1983]