[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 211 (Friday, October 31, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 62027-62028]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-27413]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service

7 CFR Parts 1124 and 1131

[Docket No. AO-368-A32, AO-271-A37; DA-03-04]


Milk in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona-Las Vegas Marketing 
Areas; Reconvening of Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Tentative 
Marketing Agreements and Orders

------------------------------------------------------------------------
         7 CFR Part                 Marketing area            AO Nos.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1124.......................  Pacific Northwest..........      AO-368-A32
1131.......................  Arizona-Las Vegas..........      AO-271-A37
------------------------------------------------------------------------

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of reconvened public hearing on proposed 
rulemaking.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: This notice announces the reconvening of the hearing which 
began on September 23, 2003, in Tempe, Arizona, to consider proposals 
to amend the producer-handler provisions of the Arizona-Las Vegas and 
Pacific Northwest orders and to consider elimination of the ability to 
simultaneously pool the same milk on the Arizona-Las Vegas milk order 
and on a State-operated order that provides for marketwide pooling. The 
proposals

[[Page 62028]]

seek to, among other things, end the regulatory exemption of producer-
handlers from the pooling and pricing provisions of these two milk 
marketing orders if their Class I route distribution exceeds three 
million pounds of milk per month in either order.

DATES: The hearing will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, November 17, 
2003.

ADDRESSES: The reconvened hearing will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 
Seattle Airport, 18740 Pacific Highway S., Seattle, Washington 98188, 
telephone: (206) 246-8600.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack Rower, Marketing Specialist, 
Order Formulation and Enforcement Branch, USDA/AMS/Dairy Programs, STOP 
0231-Room 2971, 1400 Independence Avenue, Washington, DC 20250-0231, 
(202) 720-2357, e-mail address [email protected].
    Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special 
accommodations should contact Gary Jablonski at (425) 487-6009 or 
[email protected] before the hearing begins.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Prior documents in this proceeding:
    Notice of Hearing: Issued July 31, 2003; published August 6, 2003 
(68 FR 46505).
    Correction to Notice of Hearing: Issued August 20, 2003; published 
August 26, 2003 (68 FR 51202).
    Notice is hereby given that the hearing which was adjourned in 
Tempe, Arizona, on September 25, 2003, by the Administrative Law Judge 
designated to hold said hearing and preside thereof, will reconvene in 
session at 8:30 a.m., November 17, 2003, at the Doubletree Hotel, 
Seattle Airport, 18740 Pacific Highway S., Seattle, Washington 98188. 
At the reconvened hearing, additional testimony will be received on 
proposed amendments 1 through 5, listed in the initial hearing notice 
(68 FR 46505) as corrected (68 FR 51202) to the tentative marketing 
agreements and to the orders regulating the handling of milk in the 
Arizona-Las Vegas and Pacific Northwest marketing areas.

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Parts 1124 and 1131

    Milk marketing orders.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.

    Dated: October 27, 2003.
A.J. Yates,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 03-27413 Filed 10-30-03; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-02-P