This document also corrects the regulations published by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) entitled ``Direct and Counter Cyclical Program'' and ``Marketing Assistance Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments.'' Corrections are necessary for provisions that conflict with statute or other program requirements and are intended to ensure that Agency

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Commodity Credit Corporation's (CCC) intention to request an extension for, and revision to, currently approved information collections in support of the regulations governing the foreign donation of agricultural commodities under the section 416(b) and Food for

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This action amends the Tobacco Loan Program regulations to reflect a statutory change that removes the former statutory requirement that tobacco must be insured to be eligible for price support loans and to revise various organizational titles and OMB information collection control numbers.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This proposed rule is offered to revise regulations covering the storage of commodities in which the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has an interest. For the most part, those commodities are acquired in connection with nonrecourse commodity loan programs that benefit farmers. This rule will consolidate the regulations for all commodities stored

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

On November 12, 2003, the President, Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), who is the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, determined that 100,000 metric tons of nonfat dry milk in CCC inventory will be made available for donation overseas under section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, during

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Commodity Credit Corporation is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to obtain freight rates to haul agricultural products for the Department of Agriculture.

This information collection will allow CCC to establish the lowest cost of movement, via Motor

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This notice is to announce that the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has reassigned the unused 2002crop (Fiscal Year 2003) allocations among cane and beet sugar processors. This announcement lists the final revised 2002crop sugar marketing allotments and allocations. This reassignment is effective September 26, 2003, and applies to all domestic

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This document contains a correction to the final rule published by the Commodity Credit Corporation on Thursday, June 26, 2003. The language in the preamble under the heading ``Environmental Assessment'' was incorrect. This document corrects that language to reflect the level of analysis performed by the agency prior to publication of that rule.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This rule amends cotton loan eligibility, packaging, and storage approval requirements to permit extra long staple (ELS) cotton to be stored outside while pledged as collateral for a Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) marketing assistance loan. The intent of this rule is to permit producers to reduce storage costs for ELS cotton without increasing

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This rule implements provisions of the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003, related to the Sugar Beet Disaster Program. This program will assist sugar beet producers who suffered production losses for either the 2001 or 2002 crop year due to weather related disasters which resulted in the prevention of planting or the reduction of quantity or

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this Notice to implement section 207 of the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003. This Act requires CCC to provide compensation to Louisiana sugarcane producers and processors who suffered economic losses from the cumulative effects of Tropical Storm Isadore, Hurricane Lili, and excessive rains in

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) will hold a public hearing to receive comments on establishing sugarcane State allotments and sugarcane processor allocations of those allotments for the 2003 crop.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to request extension of a currently approved information collection. The collection is used to conduct a National Nonprofit Humanitarian Program 501(c)(3) for purposes of expanding current disposition options for

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This rule finalizes the interim rule which implemented the Commodity Credit Corporation's Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program to help open, retain, and expand markets for U.S. specialty crops.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation is extending the time for submission of proposals for the Fiscal Year 2003 Quality Samples Program.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

Commodity Credit Corporation has published elsewhere in this issue a final rule establishing the ``Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops'' program to help open, retain, and expand markets for U.S. specialty crops.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this notice to inform all interested parties of the 2003 New Mexico Tebuthiuron Program (NMTP). The NMTP was authorized by the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003 (the 2003 Act), which requires the Secretary to reimburse certain agricultural producers on farms in New Mexico for losses related to

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) increased the 2002-crop overall allotment quantity (OAQ) of domestic sugar by 463,000 short tons, raw value (STRV) to 8.663 million STRV on May 13, 2003. In addition, CCC reassigned unused cane and beet sugar allocations between respective processors on May 19, 2003.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This rule implements portions of the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003 to provide croploss disaster assistance for producers who suffered 2001 or 2002 crop losses and to establish a Livestock Assistance Program. This rule also implements provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 (2003 Appropriations Act) that add the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on a new information collection needed by the CCC to establish market values for wheat, feed grains, soybeans, minor oilseeds, and pulses.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announces the availability of $49,492,000 to implement the Grassland Reserve Program (GRP) in fiscal year 2003. Section 2401 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107171) amended the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize this program. The Secretary of Agriculture delegated the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) will hold a public hearing to receive comments on (1) a new entrant's beet sugar allocation request and possible impacts on existing beet processors and producers, and (2) increasing an existing beet processor's allocation beginning in FY 2004.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

This rule sets forth at 7 CFR part 1400 the regulations to implement provisions of the Farm Security Act of 1985 (1985 Act) as amended by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Act) regarding limits on the income of individuals and entities eligible for certain USDA commodity and conservation programs. These regulations set forth

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the intention of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to request an extension for and revision to a currently approved information collection in support of the CCC's Export Enhancement Program (EEP) and the CCC's Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) based on

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is removing obsolete references from its regulations requiring producers to obtain at least a catastrophic level of crop insurance for each crop of economic significance in order to be eligible for payment under certain programs, which are no longer in operation.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Commodity Credit Corporation