[Federal Register: September 3, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 170)]
[Notices]
[Page 56263]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
[02-02-C]
Opportunity To Comment on the Applicants for the Springfield (IL)
Area
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
(GIPSA) requests comments on the applicants for designation to provide
official services in the geographic areas assigned to Springfield Grain
Inspection, Inc. (Springfield).
DATES: Comments must be postmarked, or electronically dated by October
1, 2002.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted in writing to USDA, GIPSA, Janet
M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance Division, STOP 3604, Room
1647-S, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-3604.
Telecopier (FAX) users may send comments to the automatic telecopier
machine at 202-690-2755, attention: Janet M. Hart. Electronic mail
users may send comments to: Janet.M.Hart@usda.gov. All comments
received will be made available for public inspection at the above
address at 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., during regular business
hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet M. Hart at 202-720-8525, e-mail
Janet.M.Hart@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Action has been reviewed and determined
not to be a rule or regulation as defined in Executive Order 12866 and
Departmental Regulation 1512-1; therefore, the Executive Order and
Departmental Regulation do not apply to this action.
In the June 3, 2003, Federal Register (67 FR 38249), GIPSA asked
persons interested in providing official services in the Springfield
area to submit an application for designation. There were two
applicants for the Springfield area: Springfield and Keokuk Grain
Inspection Service (Keokuk). Springfield applied for designation to
provide official services in the entire area currently assigned to
them. Keokuk, a designated official grain inspection agency operating
in Iowa and Illinois, applied for designation to provide official
services in Cass and Schuyler Counties, Illinois.
GIPSA is publishing this notice to provide interested persons the
opportunity to present comments concerning the applicants. Commenters
are encouraged to submit reasons and pertinent data for support or
objection to the designation of the applicants. All comments must be
submitted to the Compliance Division at the above address. Comments and
other available information will be considered in making a final
decision. GIPSA will publish notice of the final decision in the
Federal Register, and GIPSA will send the applicants written
notification of the decision.
Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C.
71 et seq.).
Dated: August 13, 2002.
Donna Reifschneider,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-22084 Filed 8-30-02; 8:45 am]
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