[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 19, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 69712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-29304]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation


Public Hearing on New Entrant's 2003-Crop Cane Sugar Marketing 
Allocation

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request a public hearing.

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SUMMARY: The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is issuing this notice 
to advise sugarcane processors and growers that they may request a 
public hearing as a result of an application made by a new sugarcane 
processor, the Arizona Sugar Factory, L.L.C., for a cane-sugar 
allocation for the 2003 crop year.

DATES: CCC will conduct a hearing if one is requested by December 4, 
2002. CCC will publicly announce details of the hearing if one is 
requested.

ADDRESSES: Please send hearing requests to Thomas Bickerton, Farm 
Service Agency, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Stop 
0516, 1400 Independence Ave, SW., Washington, DC 20250-0540. Phone: 
(202) 720-6733. Fax: (202) 690-1480. e-mail: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Bickerton at (202) 720-6733.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Arizona Sugar Factory, L.L.C., a new 
entrant, is requesting a 2003-crop year allocation of 10,000 short 
tons, raw value, and wants its allocation to increase to 50,000 short 
tons, raw value, for the 2005 crop. The new processor will be located 
in California, a mainland State which does not currently have a cane 
allotment. Section 359d(b)(1)(E) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended, authorizes CCC to provide a sugarcane processor, who 
begins processing after May 13, 2002, with an allocation that provides 
a fair, efficient, and equitable distribution of the allocations from 
the allotment for the State in which the processor is located. CCC 
would have to allot California a share of the overall cane allotment in 
order to accommodate the new entrant's allocation. The new California 
allotment would be subtracted, on a pro rata basis, from the allotments 
otherwise provided to each mainland State.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on November 8, 2002.
James R. Little,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 02-29304 Filed 11-18-02; 8:45 am]
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