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Commodity Credit Corporation

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ACTION: Domestic Sugar Program:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Domestic Sugar Program--Revisions of 2002-Crop Sugar Marketing Allotments and Allocations

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: 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 cane and beet sugar marketed for human consumption in the United States from October 1, 2002, through September 30, 2003.

SUMMARY: 2002-crop sugar marketing allotments and allocations; revisions,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

Section 359e(a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, requires a periodic review to determine (in view of current sugar inventories, estimated sugar production, expected marketings and other pertinent factors) whether (1) any sugarcane processor will be unable to market the sugar covered by the portion of the State cane sugar allotment allocated to the processor; and (2) any sugar beet processor will be unable to market its allocation. Section 359e(b)(1)(B) further provides for the reassignment of the estimated quantity of a State deficit proportionately to the allotments for other cane sugar States (depending on each State's capacity to market) when a State does not have the capacity to fulfill its allotment among its own processors.

In September 2003, sugarcane and sugar beet processors submitted revisions of their 2002crop production and ending stocks estimates to CCC for the purpose of calculating a final reassignment. The allotments/allocations were calculated for the cane and beet sectors as follows:
Cane Sector:
[sbull] First, 14,878 short tons, raw value (STRV) of allocation were taken from Louisiana processors with surplus allocation and reassigned to processors with surplus supply within Louisiana (attached table, column C). This amount was insufficient to cover Louisiana's overall shortfall.
[sbull] Then, the excess allotment of 11,100 STRV for Hawaii was redistributed to the remaining cane states (attached table, column D). Beet Sector:
[sbull] Using August survey data for the current year, it was determined that three beet sugar processors had 2002crop allocation that would not be used while three processors showed an allocation shortfall. The surplus allocation of 8,679 STRV from the first three was surrendered and reassigned to other three (attached table, column D).

Two organizational changes are recognized in this Federal Register announcement:

1. The merger of M.A. Patout & Sons, Raceland Sugars and Sterling Sugars into M.A. Patout & Sonsa Louisiana cane processor with a single allocation.

2. The September 8, 2003, sale of all assets of the Pacific Northwest Sugar Company (PNS) to the American Crystal Sugar Company (ACS). In accordance with section 359d (b)(2)(F) of the Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, CCC permanently transferred the beet sugar allocation of PNS to ACS.

The final revised 2002crop sugar marketing allotments and allocations are listed in the following table:
Fiscal Year 2003 Sugar Marketing Allotments and Allocations [Revised September, 2003] D New B Last C Newcane reassignments E New allotment/ reassignments across all allotment/ allocation within States processors by allocation sector (short tons, raw value) Overall Beet/Cane Allotments:

Beet Sugar.................................. 4,708,341 0 0 4,708,341

Cane Sugar (includes P. Rico)............... 3,954,660 0 0 3,954,660
Total OAQ............................... 8,663,000 .............. .............. 8,663,000 =================

Beet Reassignment to CCC.................... 174,000 .............. .............. 174,000

Allotment Available to Beet................. 4,534,341 .............. .............. 4,534,341

Allotment Available to Cane................. 3,954,660 .............. .............. 3,954,660 Beet Processors' Marketing Allocations:

Amalgamated Sugar Co........................ 976,021 .............. 0 976,021 [[Page 59579]]

American Crystal Sugar Co................... 1,654,335 .............. 7,411 1,661,746

Holly Sugar Corp............................ 299,100 .............. 0 299,100

Michigan Sugar Co........................... 340,509 .............. 0 340,509

MinnDak Farmers Coop...................... 305,067 .............. 36 305,103

Monitor Sugar Co............................ 174,268 .............. 1,554 172,714

So. Minn Beet Sugar Coop................... 300,785 .............. 1,232 302,018

Western Sugar Co............................ 446,772 .............. 4,853 441,919

Wyoming Sugar Co............................ 37,483 .............. 2,272 35,211
Total Beet Sugar........................ 4,534,341 .............. 0 4,534,341 ================= State Cane Sugar Allotments:

Florida..................................... 2,104,337 .............. 6,201 2,110,538

Louisiana................................... 1,381,212 .............. 4,366 1,385,578

Texas....................................... 178,326 .............. 534 178,860

Hawaii...................................... 290,784 .............. 11,100 279,684

Puerto Rico................................. 0 0 0
Total Cane Sugar........................ 3,954,660 .............. 0 3,954,660 ================= Cane Processors' Marketing Allocations:

Atlantic Sugar Assoc........................ 163,777 .............. 0 163,777

Growers Coop. of FL........................ 389,088 .............. 1,219 390,307

Okeelanta Corp.............................. 448,274 .............. 3,568 451,842

Osceola Farms Co............................ 268,661 .............. 1,414 270,076

U.S. Sugar Corp............................. 834,536 .............. 0 834,536
Total................................... 2,104,337 .............. 6,201 2,110,538 =================

Alma Plantation............................. 77,257 4,847 1,422 83,526

Caire & Graugnard........................... 6,091 474 139 6,704

Cajun Sugar Coop........................... 106,711 0 0 106,711

CoraTexas Mfg. Co.......................... 121,906 1,799 528 124,232

Harry Laws & Co............................. 61,992 2,330 684 65,006

Iberia Sugar Coop.......................... 64,543 3,087 0 61,456

Jeanerette Sugar Co......................... 63,626 0 0 63,626

Lafourche Sugars Corp....................... 64,470 0 0 64,470

Louisiana Sugarcane Coop................... 81,471 740 217 82,429

Lula Westfield, LLC......................... 147,840 4,688 1,376 153,904

M.A. Patout & Sons.......................... 387,454 2,060 0 385,394

St. Mary Sugar Coop........................ 89,485 3,600 0 85,885

So. Louisiana Sugars Coop.................. 108,366 6,131 0 102,235
Total................................... 1,381,212 0 4,366 1,385,578 ================= Texas:

Rio Grande Valley........................... 178,326 .............. 534 178,860 Hawaii:

Gay & Robinson, Inc......................... 64,298 .............. 3,600 60,698

Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company......... 226,486 .............. 7,500 218,986
Total................................... 290,784 .............. 11,100 279,684 ================= Puerto Rico:

Agraso...................................... 0 .............. 0 0

Roig........................................ 0 .............. 0 0
Total................................... 0 .............. 0 0 [[Page 59580]]

Signed in Washington, DC on October 3, 2003.
James R. Little,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 0326175 Filed 101503; 8:45 am]
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