[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 105 (Thursday, June 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 28570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13384]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Opportunity for Designation in the Schaal (IA) Area

AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration 
(GIPSA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (Act), 
provides that official agency designations will end not later than 
triennially and may be renewed. The designation of D.R. Schaal Agency, 
Inc. (Schaal), will end December 31, 1995, according to the Act, and 
GIPSA is asking persons interested in providing official services in 
the Schaal area to submit an application for designation.

DATES: Applications must be postmarked or sent by telecopier (FAX) on 
or before June 30, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Applications must be submitted to Janet M. Hart, Chief, 
Review Branch, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, Room 1647 South 
Building, P.O. Box 96454, Washington, DC 20090-6454. Telecopier (FAX) 
users may send applications to the automatic telecopier machine at 202-
690-2755, attention: Janet M. Hart. If an application is submitted by 
telecopier, GIPSA reserves the right to request an original 
application. All applications will be made available for public 
inspection at this address located at 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., 
during regular business hours.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet M. Hart, telephone 202-720-8525.

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.
    Section 7(f)(1) of the Act authorizes GIPSA's Administrator to 
designate a qualified applicant to provide official services in a 
specified area after determining that the applicant is better able than 
any other applicant to provide such official services.
    GIPSA designated Schaal, main office located in Belmond, Iowa, to 
provide official inspection services under the Act on January 1, 1993.
    Section 7(g)(1) of the Act provides that designations of official 
agencies shall end not later than triennially and may be renewed 
according to the criteria and procedures prescribed in Section 7(f) of 
the Act. The designation of Schaal ends on December 30, 30, 1995.
    The geographic area presently assigned to Schaal, in the State of 
Iowa, pursuant to Section 7(f)(2) of the Act, which may be assigned to 
the applicant selected for designation is as follows:
    Bounded on the North by the northern Kossuth County line from U.S. 
Route 169; the northern Winnebago, Worth, and Mitchell County lines;
    Bounded on the East by the eastern Mitchell County line; the 
eastern Floyd County line south to B60; B60 west to T64; T64 south to 
State Route 188; State Route 188 south to C33;
    Bounded on the South by C33 west to T47; T47 north to C23; C23 west 
to S56; S56 south to C25; C25 west to U.S. Route 65; U.S. Route 65 
south to State Route 3; State Route 3 west to S41; S41 south to C55; 
C55 west to Interstate 35; Interstate 35 southwest to the southern 
Wright County line; the southern Wright County line west to U.S. Route 
69; U.S. Route 69 to C54; C54 west to State Route 17; and
    Bounded on the West by State Route 17 north to the southern Kossuth 
County line; the Kossuth County line west to U.S. Route 169; U.S. Route 
169 north to the northern Kossuth County line.
    Schaal's assigned geographic area does not include the following 
grain elevators inside Schaal's area which have been and will continue 
to be serviced by the following official agencies:
    1. Central Iowa Grain Inspection Service, Inc.: Farmers Co-op 
Elevator Company, Chapin, Franklin County; and Farmers Community Co-op, 
Inc., Rockwell, Cerro Gordo County.
    2. A. V. Tischer and Son, Inc.: West Bend Elevator Co., Algona, 
Kossuth County; Big Six Elevator, Burt, Kossuth County; Gold-Eagle, 
Goldfield, Wright County; and Farmers Co-op Elevator, Holmes, Wright 
County.
    Interested persons, including Schaal, are hereby given the 
opportunity to apply for designation to provide official services in 
the geographic area specified above under the provisions of Section 
7(f) of the Act and section 800.196(d) of the regulations issued 
thereunder. Designation in the specified geographic area is for the 
period beginning January 1, 1996, and ending November 30, 1998. Persons 
wishing to apply for designation should contact the Compliance Division 
at the address listed above for forms and information.
    Applications and other available information will be considered in 
determining which applicant will be designated.

    Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
71 et seq.)

    Dated: May 23, 1995.
Sidney U. Allen,
Acting Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 95-13384 Filed 5-31-95; 8:45 am]
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