[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 1995)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 6452]
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[FR Doc No: 95-2585]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service

7 CFR Part 29

[TB-94-36]


Tobacco Inspection--Growers Referendum

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of referendum.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that a referendum will be conducted by 
mail during the period of February 6-10, 1995, for producers of flue-
cured tobacco who sell their tobacco at auction in Clarkton and 
Chadbourn, North Carolina, to determine producer approval of the 
designation of the Clarkton and Chadbourn tobacco markets as one 
consolidated auction market.
DATES: The referendum will be held February 6-10, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry L. Crabtree, Deputy Director, 
Tobacco Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, United States 
Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 96456, Washington, DC 20090-6456; 
telephone number (202) 205-0235.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given of a mail referendum 
on the designation of a consolidated auction market at Clarkton and 
Chadbourn, North Carolina. Clarkton and Chadbourn, North Carolina, were 
designated on June 26, 1942, (7 CFR 29.8001) as flue-cured tobacco 
auction markets under the Tobacco Inspection Act (7 U.S.C. 511 et 
seq.). Under this Act both have been receiving mandatory grading 
services from USDA.
    On September 2, 1994, an application was made to the Secretary of 
Agriculture to consolidate the designated markets of Clarkton and 
Chadbourn, North Carolina. The application, filed by warehouse 
operators in those markets, was made pursuant to the regulations 
promulgated under the Tobacco Inspection Act (7 CFR part 29.1-29.3). On 
November 10, 1994, a public hearing was held in Fair Bluff, North 
Carolina, pursuant to the regulations. A Review Committee, established 
pursuant to Sec. 29.3(h) of the regulations (7 CFR 29.3 (h)), has 
reviewed and considered the application, the testimony presented at the 
hearing, the exhibits received in evidence, and other available 
information. The Committee recommended to the Secretary that the 
application be granted and the Secretary approved the application on 
January 20, 1995.
    Before a new market can be officially designated, a referendum must 
be held to determine that a two-thirds majority of producers favor the 
designation. It is hereby determined that the referendum will be held 
by mail during the period of February 6-10, 1995. The purpose of the 
referendum is to determine whether farmers who sold their tobacco on 
the designated markets at Clarkton and Chadbourn are in favor of, or 
opposed to, the designation of the consolidated market for the 1995 and 
succeeding crop years. Accordingly, if a two-thirds majority of those 
tobacco producers voting in the referendum favor this consolidation, a 
new market will be designated as and will be called Clarkton-Chadbourn.
    To be eligible to vote in the referendum a tobacco producer must 
have sold flue-cured tobacco on either the Clarkton and Chadbourn, 
North Carolina, auction markets during the 1994 marketing season. Any 
farmer who believes he or she is eligible to vote in the referendum but 
has not received a mail ballot by February 6, 1995, should immediately 
contact Larry L. Crabtree at (202) 205-0235.
    The referendum will be held in accordance with the provisions for 
referenda of the Tobacco Inspection Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 511d) and 
the regulations for such referendum set forth in 7 CFR 29.74.

    Dated: January 27, 1995.
Lon Hatamiya,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-2585 Filed 2-1-95; 8:45 am]
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