[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: 7CFR985]

[Page 583]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 985_MARKETING ORDER REGULATING THE HANDLING OF SPEARMINT OIL 
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  985.54  Issuance of annual allotments.

    (a) Whenever the Secretary establishes a salable quantity and 
allotment percentage for a class of oil that may be freely marketed 
during a marketing year, the Committee shall issue an annual allotment 
to each producer holding an allotment base for that class of oil. Each 
producer's annual allotment for a class of oil shall be determined by 
multiplying the producer's allotment base for that class of oil by the 
applicable allotment percentage.
    (b) On or before December 1, the Committee shall furnish each 
registered holder of an allotment base a form for the producer to apply 
for an annual allotment for the ensuing marketing year. The Committee, 
with the approval of the Secretary, shall establish rules and 
regulations prescribing the information to be submitted on this form. 
The Committee shall notify each producer of the producer's annual 
allotment for each class of oil within 10 days after the Secretary 
establishes the salable quantity and allotment percentage.
    (c) Through 1981, a handler may acquire oil of a producer's own 
production to fulfill a written contract entered into by these two 
persons prior to February 27, 1979. The terms of this contract shall 
require the producer to deliver to that handler a specified quantity of 
a class of oil from that producer's production at a specific price from 
a specified acreage and produced prior to 1982. The quantity of oil 
acquired by the handler pursuant to that contract during the 1980-81 or 
1981-82 marketing year may exceed the producer's annual allotment for 
the applicable marketing year, but shall be charged against the 
producer's annual allotment for that year.