[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: 7CFR993.36]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 993_DRIED PRUNES PRODUCED IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 993.36  Duties.

    The committee shall have, among others, the following duties:
    (a) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any producer, 
dehydrator, or handler;
    (b) To keep minutes, books, and other records which shall clearly 
reflect all of its acts and transactions, and such minutes, books, and 
other records shall be subject to examination by the Secretary at any 
time;
    (c) To make, subject to the prior approval of the Secretary, 
scientific and other studies, and assemble data on the producing, 
handling, shipping, and marketing conditions relative to prunes, which 
are necessary in connection with the performance of its official duties;
    (d) To select, from among its members, a chairman and other 
appropriate officers, and to adopt such rules and

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regulations for the conduct of the business of the committee as it may 
deem advisable;
    (e) To appoint or employ such other persons as it may deem 
necessary, and to determine the salaries and define the duties of such 
persons;
    (f) To submit to the Secretary not later than the fourth Tuesday of 
July of each year, a budget of its anticipated expenditures and the 
recommended rate of assessment for the ensuing crop year, and the 
supporting data therefor;
    (g) To submit to the Secretary such available information with 
respect to prunes as the committee may deem appropriate, or as the 
Secretary may request;
    (h) To prepare and submit to the Secretary quarterly statements of 
the financial operations of the committee, exclusive of reserve prune 
operations, and to make such statements, together with the minutes of 
the meetings of said committee, available for inspection at the offices 
of the committee by producers, dehydrators, and handlers;
    (i) To prepare and submit to the Secretary annually, as soon as 
practicable after the end of each crop year and at such other times as 
the committee may deem appropriate or the Secretary may request, a 
statement of the committee's financial operations with respect to 
reserve prunes for such crop year and to make such statement available 
at the offices of the committee for inspection by producers, 
dehydrators, and handlers;
    (j) To cause the books of the committee to be audited by a certified 
public accountant at least once each crop year, and at such other times 
as the committee may deem necessary or as the Secretary may request, and 
two copies of each such audit report shall be submitted to the Secretary 
and a copy which does not contain confidential data shall be available 
for inspection at the offices of the committee, by producers, 
dehydrators, and handlers;
    (k) To give the Secretary the same notice of meetings of the 
committee as is given to the members of the committee;
    (l) To give producers, dehydrators, and handlers reasonable advance 
notice of meetings of the committee, and to maintain all such meetings 
open to such persons;
    (m) To investigate compliance with the provisions of this subpart 
and with any rules and regulations established pursuant to such 
provisions; and
    (n) To establish, with the approval of the Secretary, such rules and 
procedures relative to administration of this subpart as may be 
consistent with the provisions contained in this subpart and as may be 
necessary to accomplish the purposes of the act and the efficient 
administration of this subpart.

[30 FR 9798, Aug. 6, 1965, as amended at 37 FR 861, Jan. 20, 1972]

    Effective Date Note: At 68 FR 40757, July 9, 2003, in Sec. 993.33, 
paragraph (i) was suspended, effective Aug. 1, 2003, through July 31, 
2008.