[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 55783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27710]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service
[Docket No. TB-97-01]


Public Hearing Regarding Establishment of a New Tobacco Auction 
Market

    Notice is hereby given of a public hearing regarding an application 
to combine the Tabor City and Whiteville, North Carolina, tobacco 
markets.
    Date: November 6, 1996.
    Time: 9:00 a.m. local time.
    Place: Dales Family Seafood and Steakhouse, 100 701 Bypass, Tabor 
City, North Carolina.
    Purpose: To hear testimony and to receive evidence regarding an 
application for tobacco inspection and price support services to a new 
market, which would be a consolidation of the currently designated 
markets of Tabor City and Whiteville, North Carolina. The application 
was made by Donald B. Watson, H.B. Buffkin, Jr., and Joey E. Coleman, 
warehousemen, Tabor City Tobacco Market, Tabor City, North Carolina; 
and Emory Smith, Dial Gray, Jack Cox, Wayne Miller, J.T. Smith and J.D. 
Gore, warehousemen, Whiteville Tobacco Market, Whiteville, North 
Carolina.
    This public hearing will be conducted pursuant to the joint policy 
statement and regulations governing the extension of tobacco inspection 
and price support services to new markets and to additional sales on 
designated markets (7 CFR Secs. 29.1 through 29.3), issued under the 
Tobacco Inspection Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 511 et seq.) and the 
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, as amended (15 U.S.C. 714 et 
seq.).

    Dated: October 24, 1996.
Kenneth C. Clayton,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-27710 Filed 10-25-96; 8:45 am]
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