[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR932.25]

[Page 294-295]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 932_OLIVES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  932.25  Establishment and membership.

    A California Olive Committee consisting of 16 members, is hereby 
established to administer the terms and provisions of this part. Each 
member shall have an alternate who meets the same qualifications as the 
member. Eight of the members and their alternates shall be producers or 
officers or employees of producers, and eight of the members and their 
alternates shall be handlers or directors, officers, or employees of 
handlers. The eight members of the committee who are producers or 
officers or employees of producers are referred to in this subpart as 
``producer members'' of the committee; and the eight members of the 
committee who are handlers or directors, officers, or employees of 
handlers are referred to in this subpart as ``handler members'' of the 
committee. The committee may be increased by one public member who shall 
not be a producer or handler of olives nor an officer or employee or 
director of any producer or handler of olives. District representation 
of the producer members shall be two from District 1, four from District 
2, and two from District 3. Allocation of the handler members shall be 
four members to represent cooperative marketing organizations, herein 
referred to as ``cooperative handlers'', and four members to represent 
handlers who are not cooperative marketing organizations, herein 
referred to as ``independent handlers'': Provided, That whenever during 
the crop year in which nominations are made and in the preceding crop 
year, the cooperative handlers or the independent handlers handled as 
first handler 65 percent or more of the total quantity of olives so 
handled by all handlers, allocation shall be five members to represent 
the group which so handled 65 percent or more of such olives and three 
members to represent the group which handled 35 percent or less. The 
public member and alternate public member shall be selected from any 
place within the area. The committee may, with the approval of the

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Secretary, provide such other allocation of producer or handler 
membership, or both, as may be necessary to assure equitable 
representation.

[47 FR 32907, July 30, 1982]