[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 200 (Thursday, October 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59578-59580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-26175]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation


Domestic Sugar Program--Revisions of 2002-Crop Sugar Marketing 
Allotments and Allocations

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to announce that the Commodity Credit 
Corporation (CCC) has reassigned the unused 2002-crop (Fiscal Year 
2003) allocations among cane and beet sugar processors. This 
announcement lists the final revised 2002-crop sugar marketing 
allotments and allocations. This reassignment is effective September 
26, 2003, and applies to all domestic cane and beet sugar marketed for 
human consumption in the United States from October 1, 2002, through 
September 30, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Barbara Fecso, Dairy and Sweeteners Analysis Group, Economic 
Policy and Analysis Staff, Farm Service Agency, USDA, 1400 Independence 
Avenue, SW., STOP 0516, Washington, DC 20250-0516; telephone (202) 720-
4146; FAX (202) 690-1480; e-mail: [email protected]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Fecso at (202) 720-4146.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 359e(a) of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended by the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002, requires a periodic review to determine (in 
view of current sugar inventories, estimated sugar production, expected 
marketings and other pertinent factors) whether (1) any sugarcane 
processor will be unable to market the sugar covered by the portion of 
the State cane sugar allotment allocated to the processor; and (2) any 
sugar beet processor will be unable to market its allocation. Section 
359e(b)(1)(B) further provides for the reassignment of the estimated 
quantity of a State deficit proportionately to the allotments for other 
cane sugar States (depending on each State's capacity to market) when a 
State does not have the capacity to fulfill its allotment among its own 
processors.
    In September 2003, sugarcane and sugar beet processors submitted 
revisions of their 2002-crop production and ending stocks estimates to 
CCC for the purpose of calculating a final reassignment. The 
allotments/allocations were calculated for the cane and beet sectors as 
follows:

Cane Sector:

    [sbull] First, 14,878 short tons, raw value (STRV) of allocation 
were taken from Louisiana processors with surplus allocation and 
reassigned to processors with surplus supply within Louisiana (attached 
table, column C). This amount was insufficient to cover Louisiana's 
overall shortfall.
    [sbull] Then, the excess allotment of 11,100 STRV for Hawaii was 
redistributed to the remaining cane states (attached table, column D).

Beet Sector:

    [sbull] Using August survey data for the current year, it was 
determined that three beet sugar processors had 2002-crop allocation 
that would not be used while three processors showed an allocation 
shortfall. The surplus allocation of 8,679 STRV from the first three 
was surrendered and reassigned to other three (attached table, column 
D).
    Two organizational changes are recognized in this Federal Register 
announcement:
    1. The merger of M.A. Patout & Sons, Raceland Sugars and Sterling 
Sugars into M.A. Patout & Sons--a Louisiana cane processor with a 
single allocation.
    2. The September 8, 2003, sale of all assets of the Pacific 
Northwest Sugar Company (PNS) to the American Crystal Sugar Company 
(ACS). In accordance with section 359d (b)(2)(F) of the Agriculture 
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, CCC permanently transferred the 
beet sugar allocation of PNS to ACS.
    The final revised 2002-crop sugar marketing allotments and 
allocations are listed in the following table:

                           Fiscal Year 2003 Sugar Marketing Allotments and Allocations
                                            [Revised September, 2003]
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                                                                                     D  New--
                                                      B  Last      C  New--cane    reassignments      E  New
                                                    allotment/     reassignments    across all      allotment/
                                                    allocation    within  States   processors by    allocation
                                                                                      sector
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                                             (short tons, raw value)
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Overall Beet/Cane Allotments:
    Beet Sugar..................................       4,708,341               0               0       4,708,341
    Cane Sugar (includes P. Rico)...............       3,954,660               0               0       3,954,660
                                                 -----------------
        Total OAQ...............................       8,663,000  ..............  ..............       8,663,000
                                                 =================
    Beet Reassignment to CCC....................         174,000  ..............  ..............         174,000
    Allotment Available to Beet.................       4,534,341  ..............  ..............       4,534,341
    Allotment Available to Cane.................       3,954,660  ..............  ..............       3,954,660
Beet Processors' Marketing Allocations:
    Amalgamated Sugar Co........................         976,021  ..............               0         976,021

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    American Crystal Sugar Co...................       1,654,335  ..............           7,411       1,661,746
    Holly Sugar Corp............................         299,100  ..............               0         299,100
    Michigan Sugar Co...........................         340,509  ..............               0         340,509
    Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op......................         305,067  ..............              36         305,103
    Monitor Sugar Co............................         174,268  ..............          -1,554         172,714
    So. Minn Beet Sugar Co-op...................         300,785  ..............           1,232         302,018
    Western Sugar Co............................         446,772  ..............          -4,853         441,919
    Wyoming Sugar Co............................          37,483  ..............          -2,272          35,211
                                                 -----------------
        Total Beet Sugar........................       4,534,341  ..............               0       4,534,341
                                                 =================
State Cane Sugar Allotments:
    Florida.....................................       2,104,337  ..............           6,201       2,110,538
    Louisiana...................................       1,381,212  ..............           4,366       1,385,578
    Texas.......................................         178,326  ..............             534         178,860
    Hawaii......................................         290,784  ..............         -11,100         279,684
    Puerto Rico.................................               0               0               0
                                                 -----------------
        Total Cane Sugar........................       3,954,660  ..............               0       3,954,660
                                                 =================
Cane Processors' Marketing Allocations:
    Atlantic Sugar Assoc........................         163,777  ..............               0         163,777
    Growers Co-op. of FL........................         389,088  ..............           1,219         390,307
    Okeelanta Corp..............................         448,274  ..............           3,568         451,842
    Osceola Farms Co............................         268,661  ..............           1,414         270,076
    U.S. Sugar Corp.............................         834,536  ..............               0         834,536
                                                 -----------------
        Total...................................       2,104,337  ..............           6,201       2,110,538
                                                 =================
    Alma Plantation.............................          77,257           4,847           1,422          83,526
    Caire & Graugnard...........................           6,091             474             139           6,704
    Cajun Sugar Co-op...........................         106,711               0               0         106,711
    Cora-Texas Mfg. Co..........................         121,906           1,799             528         124,232
    Harry Laws & Co.............................          61,992           2,330             684          65,006
    Iberia Sugar Co-op..........................          64,543          -3,087               0          61,456
    Jeanerette Sugar Co.........................          63,626               0               0          63,626
    Lafourche Sugars Corp.......................          64,470               0               0          64,470
    Louisiana Sugarcane Co-op...................          81,471             740             217          82,429
    Lula Westfield, LLC.........................         147,840           4,688           1,376         153,904
    M.A. Patout & Sons..........................         387,454          -2,060               0         385,394
    St. Mary Sugar Co-op........................          89,485          -3,600               0          85,885
    So. Louisiana Sugars Co-op..................         108,366          -6,131               0         102,235
                                                 -----------------
        Total...................................       1,381,212               0           4,366       1,385,578
                                                 =================
Texas:
    Rio Grande Valley...........................         178,326  ..............             534         178,860
Hawaii:
    Gay & Robinson, Inc.........................          64,298  ..............          -3,600          60,698
    Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company.........         226,486  ..............          -7,500         218,986
                                                 -----------------
        Total...................................         290,784  ..............         -11,100         279,684
                                                 =================
Puerto Rico:
    Agraso......................................               0  ..............               0               0
    Roig........................................               0  ..............               0               0
                                                 -----------------
        Total...................................               0  ..............               0               0
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    Signed in Washington, DC on October 3, 2003.
James R. Little,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 03-26175 Filed 10-15-03; 8:45 am]
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