[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR718.10]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER VII--FARM SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 718_PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MULTIPLE PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 718.10  Time limitations.

    Whenever the final date prescribed in any of the regulations in this 
title for the performance of any act falls on a Saturday, Sunday, 
national holiday, State holiday on which the office of the county or 
State Farm Service Agency committee having primary cognizance of the 
action required to be taken is closed, or any other day on which the 
cognizant office is not open for the transaction of business during 
normal working hours, the time for taking required action shall be 
extended to the close of business on the next working day. Or in case 
the action required to be taken may be performed by mailing, the action 
shall be considered to be taken within the prescribed period if the 
mailing is postmarked by midnight of such next working day. Where the 
action required to be taken is with a prescribed number of days after 
the mailing of notice, the day of mailing shall be excluded in computing 
such period of time.