[Federal Register: December 3, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 231)]
[Notices]
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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
Opportunity To Comment on the Applicants for the North Central
Texas Region, and the South Central California Region
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: GIPSA requests comments on the applicants for designation to
provide official services in north central Texas, and the applicant for
south central California. Enid Grain Inspection Company, Inc. (Enid)
and Plainview Grain Inspection and Weighing Service, Inc. (Plainview)
applied for counties in Texas, and California Agri Inspection Company,
Ltd. (California Agri) applied for counties in California that were
open for designation.
DATES: Comments must be postmarked or electronically dated on or before
January 2, 2008.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on these applicants. You
may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver to Karen Guagliardo,
Review Branch Chief, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, Room 1647-S,
1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250.
Fax: Send by facsimile transmission to (202) 690-2755,
Attention: Karen Guagliardo.
E-mail: Send via electronic mail to
Karen.W.Guagliardo@usda.gov.
Mail: Send hardcopy to Karen Guagliardo, Review Branch
Chief, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, STOP 3604, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-3604.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments and reading any comments posted online.
Read Applications and Comments: All applications and comments will be
available for public inspection at the office above during regular
business hours (7 CFR 1.27(b)).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Guagliardo at 202-720-7312, e-
mail Karen.W.Guagliardo@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.
Amarillo Grain Exchange, Inc., currently designated October 1, 2007
through September 30, 2010, asked GIPSA to remove the north central
Texas region from its assigned geographical area. The north central
Texas region is comprised of the following nineteen counties: Archer,
Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Cottle, Fisher, Foard, Hardeman, Haskell,
Jones, King, Knox, Nolan, Shackelford, Stonewall, Taylor, Throckmorton,
Wichita, and Wilbarger.
In the September 4, 2007, Federal Register (72 FR 50654), GIPSA
asked persons interested in providing official services in the north
central Texas
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region to submit an application for designation. GIPSA also asked
persons interested in providing official services for the area
currently designated to Farwell Commodity and Grain Services, Inc.
(Farwell Southwest) to submit an application for designation.
There were two applicants for the north central Texas area:
Plainview and Enid; both currently designated official agencies.
Plainview applied for part of the area open for designation: Cottle,
Hardeman, King, Knox, Baylor, Archer, Stonewall, Haskell, Throckmorton,
Fisher, Jones, Shackelford, Nolan, Taylor, Foard, and Callahan counties
in Texas. Enid applied for part of the area open for designation: Clay,
Wichita, and Wilbarger counties in Texas.
California Agri, a currently designated official agency, applied
for designation in specific counties currently designated to Farwell
Southwest. California Agri provides service in these California
counties through an agreement with Farwell Southwest: Merced, Madera,
Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Inyo, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Orange, Los
Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Bernardino. Farwell Southwest
applied for the remaining counties that are currently part of their
designated area. GIPSA is not soliciting comments on the quality of
service provided by Farwell Southwest through this notice as such
comments were already requested through a previous notice published in
the Federal Register on September 4, 2007 (72 FR 50654).
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 or at http://www.regulations.gov.
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: 7 U.S.C. 71-87k.
James E. Link,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-23248 Filed 11-30-07; 8:45 am]
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