[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 162 (Thursday, August 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44439-44440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-22012]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Opportunity for Designation to Provide Official Services in the 
Northeast Indiana (IN) Region

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: East Indiana Grain Inspection, Inc. (East Indiana), has asked 
GIPSA to amend its designation to remove the Northeast Indiana region 
from their assigned geographic area. GIPSA is asking persons interested 
in providing official services in the Northeast Indiana region to 
submit an application for designation.

DATE: Applications must be postmarked or sent by telecopier (FAX) on or 
before September 16, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Applications must be submitted to USDA, GIPSA, FGIS, Janet 
M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance Division, STOP 3604, 1400 
Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20090-3604. 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 and comments 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.
    East Indiana has asked GIPSA to remove the Northeast Indiana region 
from its assigned geographic area. The Northeast Indiana region 
consists of the following geographic area, in the State of Indiana:
    Bounded on the North by the northern Lagrange and Steuben County 
lines; Bounded on the East by the eastern Steuben, De Kalb, Allen, and 
Adams, County lines;
    Bounded on the South by the southern Adams and Wells County lines; 
and
    Bounded on the West by the western Wells County line; the southern 
Huntington and Wabash County lines; the western Wabash County line 
north to State Route 114; State Route 114 northwest to State Route 19; 
State Route 19 north to Kosciusko County; the western and northern 
Kosciusko County lines; the western Noble and Lagrange County lines.
    The following grain elevator, located outside of the above 
contiguous geographic area, is part of this geographic area assignment: 
E. M. P. Grain, Payne, Paulding County, Ohio (located inside Lima Grain 
Inspection Service, Inc.'s, area).
    Section 7(f)(1) of the United States Grain Standards Act, as 
amended (USGSA), authorizes GIPSA's Administrator, after determining 
that there is sufficient need for official services, to designate a 
qualified applicant to provide official services in a specified area 
after determining that the applicant is qualified and is better able 
than any other applicant to provide such official services. GIPSA is 
asking persons interested in providing official services in the 
Northeast Indiana region to submit an application for designation. The 
applicant selected for designation in the Northeast Indiana region will 
be assigned by GIPSA's Administrator according to Section 7(f)(1) of 
the Act.

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    Interested persons are hereby given an opportunity to apply for 
designation to provide official services in the Northeast Indiana 
region under the provisions of Section 7(f) of the Act and section 
800.196(d) of the regulations issued thereunder. Applications and other 
available information will be considered in determining which applicant 
will be designated.
    Designation in the Northeast Indiana region is for the period 
beginning about January 1, 1998, and not to exceed 3 years as 
prescribed in section 7(g)(1) of the Act. Persons wishing to apply for 
designation should contact the Compliance Division at the address 
listed above for forms and information.

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

    Dated: August 14, 1997.
Neil E. Porter,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 97-22012 Filed 8-20-97; 8:45 am]
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