[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 70924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-30048]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

[02-c]


Cancellation of Mississippi's Delegation

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (Act), 
provides for state agency delegations at export port locations within a 
state. The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce 
(Mississippi), is delegated to provide official export inspection and 
weighing services. However, there are no longer any bulk grain export 
port facilities in the State of Mississippi. Accordingly, GIPSA is 
announcing that Mississippi's delegation is being canceled effective 
December 1, 2002. This does not affect Mississippi's current 
designation to provide official domestic grain inspection and weighing 
services, effective January 1, 2001, through September 30, 2003.

DATES: December 1, 2002.

ADDRESSES: USDA, GIPSA, Janet M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance 
Division, STOP 3604, room 1647-S, 1400 Independence Ave. SW., 
Washington, DC 20250-3604.

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.
    Section 7(e)(2) of the Act authorizes GIPSA's Administrator to 
delegate authority to a qualified State agency to perform all or 
specified functions involved in official inspection at export port 
locations within the state. GIPSA originally delegated Mississippi, 
main office in Jackson, Mississippi, under the Act on April 18, 1978. 
The sole grain export port facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi, has 
been razed. Therefore, Mississippi's delegation is cancelled. If any 
grain export port facility were to open in the future within the State 
of Mississippi, Mississippi would have the opportunity to become 
delegated again.

    Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
71 et seq.).

    Dated: November 14, 2002.
David R. Shipman,
Acting Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-30048 Filed 11-26-02; 8:45 am]
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