[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: 7CFR981.50]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 981_ALMONDS GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  981.50  Reserve obligation.

    Whenever salable and reserve percentages are in effect for a crop 
year, each handler shall withhold from handling a quantity of almonds 
having a kernel weight equal to the reserve percentage of the kernel 
weight of all almonds such handler receives for his own account during 
the crop year: Provided, That, any quantity of almonds delivered to 
outlets such as poultry or animal feed or crushing into oil, in a manner 
permitting accountability to the Board, shall not be included in such 
receipts. The quantity of almonds hereby required to be withheld from 
handling shall constitute, and may be referred to as the ``reserve'' or 
``reserve obligation'' of a handler. The almonds handled as salable 
almonds by any handler, in accordance with the provisions of this part, 
shall be deemed to be that handler's quota fixed by the Secretary

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within the meaning of section 8a(5) of the act.

[41 FR 26853, June 30, 1976]