[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 216 (Friday, November 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 63056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28063]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Posting of Stockyards

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We posted two stockyards. We determined that the stockyards 
meet the definition of a stockyard under the Packers and Stockyards Act 
and, therefore, needed to be posted. Posted stockyards are subject to 
the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration (GIPSA) administers and enforces the Packers and 
Stockyards Act of 1921, as amended and supplemented (7 U.S.C. 181-229) 
(P&S Act). The P&S Act prohibits unfair, deceptive, and fraudulent 
practices by livestock market agencies, dealers, stockyard owners, meat 
packers, swine contractors, and live poultry dealers in the livestock, 
poultry, and meatpacking industries.
    Section 302 of the P&S Act (7 U.S.C. 202) defines the term 
``stockyard'' as follows:

* * * any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as 
stockyards, conducted, operated, or managed for profit or nonprofit 
as a public market for livestock producers, feeders, market 
agencies, and buyers, consisting of pens, or other inclosures, and 
their appurtenances, in which live cattle, sheep, swine, horses, 
mules, or goats are received, held, or kept for sale or shipment in 
commerce.

    Section 302(b) of the P&S Act requires the Secretary to determine 
which stockyards meet this definition, and to notify the owner of the 
stockyard and the public of that determination by posting a notice in 
each designated stockyard. After giving notice to the stockyard owner 
and to the public, the stockyard remains subject to the provisions of 
Title III of the Packers and Stockyards Act (7 U.S.C. 201-203 and 205-
217a) until the Secretary deposts the stockyard by public notice.
    This document notifies the public that the following two stockyards 
meet the definition of stockyard and that we posted the stockyards. To 
post stockyards, we assign the stockyard a facility number, notify the 
owner of the stockyard facility, and send notices to the owner of the 
stockyard to post on display in public areas of the stockyard. The date 
of posting is the date on which the posting notices are physically 
displayed.

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              Facility No.                 Stockyard name and location                Date of posting
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SC-159.................................  Hendrix Horse Auction,           April 8, 2002.
                                          Hartsville, South Carolina.
TX-346.................................  Texas Cattle Exchange, Inc.,     December 11, 2000.
                                          Eastland, Texas.
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    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 202.

    Dated: November 4, 2003.
Donna Reifschneider,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-28063 Filed 11-6-03; 8:45 am]
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