[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 3, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 56263]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-22084]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

[02-02-C]


Opportunity To Comment on the Applicants for the Springfield (IL) 
Area

AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration 
(GIPSA) requests comments on the applicants for designation to provide 
official services in the geographic areas assigned to Springfield Grain 
Inspection, Inc. (Springfield).

DATES: Comments must be postmarked, or electronically dated by October 
1, 2002.

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. Electronic mail 
users may send comments to: [email protected]. 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 at 202-720-8525, e-mail 
[email protected].

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 June 3, 2003, Federal Register (67 FR 38249), GIPSA asked 
persons interested in providing official services in the Springfield 
area to submit an application for designation. There were two 
applicants for the Springfield area: Springfield and Keokuk Grain 
Inspection Service (Keokuk). Springfield applied for designation to 
provide official services in the entire area currently assigned to 
them. Keokuk, a designated official grain inspection agency operating 
in Iowa and Illinois, applied for designation to provide official 
services in Cass and Schuyler Counties, Illinois.
    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: August 13, 2002.
Donna Reifschneider,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-22084 Filed 8-30-02; 8:45 am]
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