[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 139 (Thursday, July 19, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 37681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-18056]


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FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION


Public Meeting on Other Financing Institutions and Alternative 
Funding Mechanisms

ACTION: Notice of meeting; additional information.

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SUMMARY: On July 5, 2001, the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) 
published a notice announcing a public meeting in Des Moines, Iowa on 
August 3, 2001 about (1) The funding and discount relationship between 
other financing institutions (OFIs) and Farm Credit System (FCS or 
System) banks, and (2) other partnerships between FCS and non-System 
institutions that would increase the availability of agricultural and 
rural credit. This notice provides the public with more information 
about the time, place, and procedures for requesting to speak and 
submit testimony at the public meeting.

DATES: The public meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time 
on August 3, 2001 in Des Moines, Iowa.

ADDRESSES: The FCA will hold the public meeting at the Embassy Suites 
Hotel on the River, 101 East Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa, 50309 
(515) 244-1700. You may submit requests to appear and present testimony 
for the public meeting by electronic mail to [email protected] or 
through the Pending Regulations section of our Web site at www.fca.gov. 
You may also send your request in writing to Thomas G. McKenzie, 
Director, Regulation and Policy Division, Office of Policy and 
Analysis, Farm Credit Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive, McLean, 
VA 22102-5090, or by facsimile transmission to (703) 734-5785.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dennis Carpenter, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Policy and Analysis, 
Farm Credit Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive, McLean, Virginia 
22102-5090, (703) 883-4498, TDD (703) 883-4444,
    or
Richard A. Katz, Senior Attorney, Office of General Counsel, Farm 
Credit Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive, McLean, Virginia 22102-
5090, (703) 883-4020, TDD (703) 883-4444.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 5, 2001, we published a notice in 
the Federal Register that the FCA would hold a public meeting about 
OFIs and other partnerships between System and non-System institutions 
that increase funding for agriculture and rural America. See 66 FR 
35429. Our earlier notice told you we would publish the name and 
address of the meeting facility on our Web site and in the Federal 
Register at least 15 days before the date of the public meeting. This 
notice informs you of the exact location and time of the public 
meeting.

I. Request To Present Testimony

    As noted in our original Notice of Public Meeting, any interested 
party wishing to present testimony at the meeting may submit a request 
to the FCA at one of the addresses we listed at the outset of this 
notice. You may also identify yourself and your intent to speak the day 
of the public meeting. In order to provide the most opportunity for 
interested parties to present their views, we encourage you to testify 
as part of a panel. A request to speak should provide the name, address 
and telephone number of the person wishing to testify and the general 
nature of the testimony. Once we receive your request to testify, we 
may assign you to a panel and notify you when you are scheduled to 
speak. As time permits, following any panel presentations, we may 
accept individual testimony. Also, if time permits, at the end of the 
public meeting, additional parties who were not scheduled to speak may 
be invited to provide their thoughts and comments on questions posed in 
this notice.

II. Written Comments and Testimony

    As addressed in our original Notice of Public Meeting, we intend to 
include all comments in our official public record. For this reason, we 
ask you to provide us with a written statement or detailed summary of 
your oral testimony by the close of the public meeting. We also ask, if 
possible, that you send us an electronic version of your oral testimony 
before August 3, 2001. If you are not invited to testify because of 
time constraints, you may give us a written statement, which we will 
place in the record.
    Written copies of the testimony along with a recorded transcript of 
the proceedings will be included with a recorded transcript of the 
proceedings will be included in our rulemaking files. We encourage you 
to bring extra copies of your written statement (we suggest 50 copies) 
for distribution to the press and other interested parties attending 
the public meeting.
    The FCA Board will accept written comments, in support of or in 
rebuttal to testimony presented at the public meeting or comments 
submitted for the record. The comment period for such additional 
comments will end 30 days following the date of this public meeting. 
The comments, as well as all documents and testimony received by the 
FCA as part of the public meeting process, will be available for public 
inspection at the FCA's offices Office of Policy and Analysis in 
McLean, Virginia.

    Dated: July 16, 2001.
Kelly Mikel Williams,
Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board.
[FR Doc. 01-18056 Filed 7-18-01; 8:45 am]
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