[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 159 (Friday, August 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53557-53558]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20928]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation


Request for Public Hearing on 2002--Crop Cane Sugar Marketing 
Allotments and Allocations

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request a public hearing.

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    The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this notice to 
advise sugarcane processors and growers that they may request a public 
hearing regarding 2002-crop cane State sugar marketing allotments and 
the allocation of cane State sugar marketing allotments to sugarcane 
processors under the Sugar Program. Sections 359c and 359d of the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended by section 1403 of the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-171), 
require that the Secretary shall make cane State sugar marketing 
allotments and the allocation of cane State sugar marketing allotments 
to sugarcane processors after a hearing, if requested by the affected 
sugarcane processors or growers. If such request is made by affected 
parties by August 20, 2002, CCC will conduct a hearing on August 29, 
2002, at 10 a.m., in the Jefferson Auditorium of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture South Building, 1400 Independence Ave, Washington, DC. CCC 
will publicly announce the hearing if one is requested. Sugarcane 
growers, processors, and refiners, sugar beet growers and processors, 
sugar users, and all other interested parties would be welcome to 
attend if such hearing is held. State cane sugar marketing allotments 
and their allocation to sugarcane processors and sugar beet processor 
allocations will be announced before October 1, 2002.

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ADDRESSES: Please send hearing requests to Thomas Bickerton, Economic 
and Policy Analysis Staff, United States Department of Agriculture 
(USDA), Stop 0516, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-
0504. Phone: (202) 720-6733. Fax: (202) 690-1480. E-mail: 
[email protected].

    Signed in Washington, DC, on August 13, 2002.
James R. Little,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 02-20928 Filed 8-13-02; 4:48 pm]
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