[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 71 (Monday, April 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 18085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9572]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Opportunity to Comment on the Applicants for the Kansas Area

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: GIPSA requests comments on the applicants for designation to 
provide official services in the geographic area currently assigned to 
the Kansas State Grain Inspection Department (Kansas).

DATES: Comments must be postmarked, or sent by telecopier (FAX) or 
electronic mail by May 13, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted in writing to USDA, GIPSA, FGIS, 
Janet M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance Division, AG Code 3604, 
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-3604. Telecopier 
(FAX) users may send comments to the automatic telecopier machine at 
202-690-2755, attention: Janet M. Hart. All comments received will be 
made available for public inspection at the above 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.
    In the March 5, 1997, Federal Register (62 FR 10022), GIPSA asked 
persons interested in providing official services in the geographic 
area assigned to Kansas to submit an application for designation. There 
were four applicants: Amarillo Grain Exchange, Inc., applied for 
designation to provide official services in the Kansas counties of 
Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens, and Ulysses; the Kansas 
State Grain Inspection Department applied for designation to provide 
official services in the entire Kansas area (the area currently 
assigned to them); Kansas Grain Inspection Service, Inc., a proposed 
organization being formed by the Kansas Grain and Feed Association to 
function under a trust, that plans to establish its main office in 
Topeka, Kansas, applied for designation to provide official services in 
the entire State of Kansas; and the Missouri Department of Agriculture 
applied for designation to provide official services in the Kansas 
counties of Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte.
    GIPSA is publishing this notice to provide interested persons the 
opportunity to present comments concerning the applicants. Commenters 
are encouraged to submit reasons and pertinent data for support or 
objection to the designation of these applicants. All comments must be 
submitted to the Compliance Division at the above address. Comments and 
other available information will be considered in making a final 
decision. GIPSA will publish notice of the final decision in the 
Federal Register, and GIPSA will send the applicants written 
notification of the decision.

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

    Dated: April 9, 1997
Neil E. Porter
Director, Compliance Division
[FR Doc. 97-9572 Filed 4-11-97; 8:45 am]
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