[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1005.81]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1005_MILK IN THE APPALACHIAN MARKETING AREA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  1005.81  Payments to the transportation credit balancing fund.

    (a) On or before the 12th day after the end of the month (except as 
provided in Sec.  1000.90), each handler operating a pool plant and each 
handler specified in Sec.  1000.9(c) shall pay to the market 
administrator a transportation credit

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balancing fund assessment determined by multiplying the pounds of Class 
I producer milk assigned pursuant to Sec.  1005.44 by $0.15 per 
hundredweight or such lesser amount as the market administrator deems 
necessary to maintain a balance in the fund equal to the total 
transportation credits disbursed during the prior June-January period, 
after adjusting the transportation credits disbursed during the prior 
June-January period to reflect any changes in the current mileage rate 
versus the mileage rate(s) in effect during the prior June-January 
period. In the event that during any month of the June-January period 
the fund balance is insufficient to cover the amount of credits that are 
due, the assessment should be based upon the amount of credits that 
would have been disbursed had the fund balance been sufficient.
    (b) The market administrator shall announce publicly on or before 
the 23rd day of the month (except as provided in Sec.  1000.90) the 
assessment pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section for the following 
month.

[71 FR 62379, Oct. 25, 2006]