Federal Register: November 19, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 223)
DOCID: FR Doc 02-29304
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Commodity Credit Corporation
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request a public hearing.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Public Hearing on New Entrant's 2003-Crop Cane Sugar Marketing Allocation
DATES: CCC will conduct a hearing if one is requested by December 4, 2002. CCC will publicly announce details of the hearing if one is requested.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this notice to advise sugarcane processors and growers that they may request a public hearing as a result of an application made by a new sugarcane processor, the Arizona Sugar Factory, L.L.C., for a canesugar allocation for the 2003 crop year.
SUMMARY:
Cane sugar; State marketing allotments and allocations; public hearing,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
The Arizona Sugar Factory, L.L.C., a new
entrant, is requesting a 2003crop year allocation of 10,000 short
tons, raw value, and wants its allocation to increase to 50,000 short
tons, raw value, for the 2005 crop. The new processor will be located
in California, a mainland State which does not currently have a cane
allotment. Section 359d(b)(1)(E) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1938, as amended, authorizes CCC to provide a sugarcane processor, who
begins processing after May 13, 2002, with an allocation that provides
a fair, efficient, and equitable distribution of the allocations from
the allotment for the State in which the processor is located. CCC
would have to allot California a share of the overall cane allotment in
order to accommodate the new entrant's allocation. The new California
allotment would be subtracted, on a pro rata basis, from the allotments otherwise provided to each mainland State.
Signed in Washington, DC, on November 8, 2002.
James R. Little,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Thomas Bickerton at (202) 720-6733.