[Federal Register: December 29, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 248)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 74874]
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Proposed Rules
Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
7 CFR Parts 1124 and 1131
[Docket No. AO-368-A32, AO-271-A37; DA-03-04]
Milk in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona-Las Vegas Marketing
Areas; Reconvening of Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Tentative
Marketing Agreements and Orders
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7 CFR part Marketing area AO Nos.
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1124............... Pacific Northwest....... AO-368-A32
1131............... Arizona-Las Vegas....... AO-271-A37
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AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Proposed Rule; Notice of reconvened public hearing on proposed
rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the reconvening of the public hearing
begun on September 23, 2003, in Tempe, Arizona, and reconvened on
November 17, 2003, in Seattle, Washington, to consider proposals to
amend the producer-handler provisions of the Arizona-Las Vegas and
Pacific Northwest orders and to consider elimination of the ability to
simultaneously pool the same milk on the Arizona-Las Vegas milk order
and on a State-operated order that provides for marketwide pooling. The
proposals seek to, among other things, end the regulatory exemption of
producer-handlers from the pooling and pricing provisions of these two
milk marketing orders if their Class I route distribution exceeds three
million pounds of milk per month in either order.
DATES: The hearing will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 20,
2004.
ADDRESSES: The reconvened hearing will be held at the Embassy Suites
Hotel Alexandria, 1900 Diagonal Road, Alexandria, VA 22314, telephone:
(703) 684-5900.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack Rower, Marketing Specialist,
Order Formulation and Enforcement Branch, USDA/AMS/Dairy Programs, STOP
0231-Room 2971, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-
0231, (202) 720-2357, e-mail address jack.rower@usda.gov.
Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special
accommodations should contact Joanne Walter via email
jwalter@fmmaseattle.com before the reconvened hearing begins.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Prior documents in this proceeding:
Notice of Hearing: Issued July 31, 2003; published August 6, 2003
(68 FR 46505).
Correction to Notice of Hearing: Issued August 20, 2003; published
August 26, 2003 (68 FR 51202).
Notice of Reconvened Hearing: Issued October 27, 2003; published
October 31, 2003 (68 FR 62027).
Notice is hereby given that the reconvened hearing that was
adjourned in Seattle, Washington, on November 21, 2003, by the
Administrative Law Judge designated to hold said hearing and preside
thereof will reconvene in session at 8:30 a.m., January 20, 2004, at
the Embassy Suites Hotel Alexandria Hotel, 1900 Diagonal Road,
Alexandria, VA 22314. At this reconvened hearing, additional testimony
will be received on proposed amendments 1 through 5, listed in the
initial hearing notice (68 FR 46505) and as corrected (68 FR 51202), to
the tentative marketing agreements and to the orders regulating the
handling of milk in the Arizona-Las Vegas and Pacific Northwest
marketing areas.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Parts 1124 and 1131
Milk marketing orders.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.
Dated: December 18, 2003.
A.J. Yates,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 03-31790 Filed 12-24-03; 8:45 am]
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