[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 97 (Friday, May 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24914-24915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12380]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Feed Grain Donations; Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 
Berthold Indian Reservation of North Dakota

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation 
(CCC) is announcing that the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 
Berthold Indian Reservation of North Dakota is an acute distress area 
and that CCC-owned feed grain will be donated to needy livestock owners 
on the reservation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon Diel, Agricultural Program 
Specialist, Farm Service Agency, AG Box Code 0527, P.O. Box 2415, 
Washington, DC 20013-2415, 202-720-6605.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the authority set forth in 
section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
1427), and Executive Order 11336, notice is being given that it is 
determined that:
    1. The chronic economic distress of the needy members of the Three 
Affiliated Tribes using the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation of North 
Dakota has been materially increased and become

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acute because of hail storms, wind, and excess rain thereby severely 
affecting livestock feed production and causing increased economic 
distress. This reservation is utilized by members of the Three 
Affiliated Tribes for grazing purposes.
    2. The use of feed grain or products thereof made available by CCC 
for livestock feed for such needy members of the Three Affiliated 
Tribes using the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation will not displace or 
interfere with normal marketing of agricultural commodities.
    3. Based on the above determinations, the Fort Berthold Indian 
Reservation of North Dakota is declared an acute distress area and the 
donation of feed grain owned by the CCC is authorized to livestock 
owners who are determined by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, United 
States Department of the Interior, to be needy members of the Three 
Affiliated Tribes utilizing such lands. These donations by the CCC may 
commence upon May 8, 1996, and shall be made available through June 15, 
1996, or such other date as may be stated in a notice issued by the 
Executive Vice President, CCC.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on May 9, 1996.
Grant Buntrock,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 96-12380 Filed 5-16-96; 8:45 am]
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