[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 56147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28743]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agriculature Marketing Service
[Docket No. TB-97-16]


Public Hearing Regarding Establishment of a New Tobacco Auction 
Market

    Notice is hereby given of a public hearing regarding an application 
to combine the Clarksville and Chase City, Virginia, tobacco markets.

    Date: November 7, 1997.
    Time: 9:30 a.m. local time.
    Place: VFW Hall No. 8163, 7488 Highway 15, Clarksville, 
Virginia.
    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 Clarksville and Chase City, Virginia. The 
application was made by Gerald Stovall, T.M. Ward, Jr., and Mac 
Bailey, Board of Trade, Clarksville, Virginia; Milton Allgood, 
Wilson Fleming, and W.M. Park, Board of Trade, Chase City, Virginia.
    This public hearing will be conducted pursuant to the joint 
policy statement and regulations governing the extension of tobacco 
inspection and price support service to new markets and to 
additional sales on designated markets (7 CFR 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, 1997.
Isi A. Siddiqui,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Marketing and Regulatory Programs.
[FR Doc. 97-28743 Filed 10-27-97; 11:20 am]
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