[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 213 (Thursday, November 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 65825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28143]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service

[Docket No. TB-00-23]


Public Hearing Regarding Establishment of a New Tobacco Auction 
Market

    Notice is hereby given of a public hearing regarding an application 
to combine the Fairmont-Fair Bluff, North Carolina and Loris, South 
Carolina, tobacco markets.
    Dates: November 9, 2000.
    Time: 9:30 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 Fairmont-Fair Bluff, North Carolina and Loris, South 
Carolina. The application was made by Robert L. Boyd, Sales Supervisor, 
Loris, South Carolina, and Curtis McGirt, Sales Supervisor, Fairmont, 
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 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 27, 2000.
Kathleen A. Merrigan,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 00-28143 Filed 11-1-00; 8:45 am]
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