[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 29259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13587]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Opportunity To Comment on the Applicants for the Hastings (NE) 
and Missouri Areas

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 areas assigned to Hastings 
Grain Inspection, Inc. (Hastings) and the Missouri Department of 
Agriculture (Missouri).

DATES: Comments must be postmarked, or sent by telecopier (FAX) by June 
30, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted in writing to USDA, GIPSA, Janet 
M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance Division, STOP 3604, Room 
1647-S, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, 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 at 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, 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 April 1, 1999, Federal Register (64 FR 15724), GIPSA asked 
persons interested in providing official services in the Hastings and 
Missouri areas to submit an application for designation. There were two 
applicants for the Hastings area: Hastings and Kansas Grain Inspection 
Service, Inc. (Kansas). Hastings applied for designation to provide 
official services in the entire area currently assigned to them. 
Kansas, a designated official grain inspection agency operating in 
Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming, applied for designation to provide 
official services in the western portion of the Hastings area: Bounded 
on the North by the Nebraska-South Dakota State line east to the 
mountain-central time zone line;
    Bounded on the East by the mountain-central time zone line south to 
the Nebraska-Kansas State line;
    Bounded on the South by the Nebraska-Kansas State line west to the 
Nebraska-Colorado State line; and
    Bounded on the West by the Nebraska-Colorado and Nebraska-Wyoming 
State lines north to the Nebraska-South Dakota State line.
    There were three applicants for the Missouri area: Missouri, 
Kansas, and North Dakota Grain Inspection Services, Inc. (North 
Dakota). Missouri applied for designation to provide official services 
in the entire area currently assigned to them. Kansas applied for 
designation to provide official services in the western portion of the 
Missouri area: Bounded on the North by the Missouri-Iowa State line 
east to Highway 65;
    Bounded on the East by Highway 65 south to the Missouri-Arkansas 
State line;
    Bounded on the South by the Missouri-Arkansas State line west to 
the Missouri-Kansas State line; and
    Bounded on the West by the Missouri-Kansas State line north to the 
Missouri-Iowa State line.
    North Dakota, a designated official grain inspection agency 
operating in Illinois as Illinois Official Grain Inspection, applied 
for the eastern portion of the Missouri area: Bounded on the North by 
the Missouri-Iowa State line from Highway 65 east to the Missouri-
Illinois State line;
    Bounded on the East by the Missouri-Illinois State line south to 
the Missouri-Kentucky State line, the Missouri-Kentucky State line 
south to the Missouri-Tennessee State line, the Missouri-Tennessee 
State line south to the Missouri-Arkansas State line;
    Bounded on the South by the Missouri-Arkansas State line west to 
Highway 65; and
    Bounded on the West by Highway 65 north to the Missouri-Iowa State 
line.
    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 the 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: May 17, 1999.
Neil E. Porter,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 99-13587 Filed 5-28-99; 8:45 am]
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