[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 248 (Monday, December 29, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 74874]
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[FR Doc No: 03-31790]


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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

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     7 CFR part           Marketing area                AO Nos.
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1124...............  Pacific Northwest.......  AO-368-A32
1131...............  Arizona-Las Vegas.......  AO-271-A37
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AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.

ACTION: Proposed Rule; Notice of reconvened public hearing on proposed 
rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the reconvening of the public hearing 
begun on September 23, 2003, in Tempe, Arizona, and reconvened on 
November 17, 2003, in Seattle, Washington, 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 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 Tuesday, January 20, 
2004.

ADDRESSES: The reconvened hearing will be held at the Embassy Suites 
Hotel Alexandria, 1900 Diagonal Road, Alexandria, VA 22314, telephone: 
(703) 684-5900.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack Rower, Marketing Specialist, 
Order Formulation and Enforcement Branch, USDA/AMS/Dairy Programs, STOP 
0231-Room 2971, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-
0231, (202) 720-2357, e-mail address [email protected].
    Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special 
accommodations should contact Joanne Walter via email 
[email protected] before the reconvened 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 of Reconvened Hearing: Issued October 27, 2003; published 
October 31, 2003 (68 FR 62027).
    Notice is hereby given that the reconvened hearing that was 
adjourned in Seattle, Washington, on November 21, 2003, by the 
Administrative Law Judge designated to hold said hearing and preside 
thereof will reconvene in session at 8:30 a.m., January 20, 2004, at 
the Embassy Suites Hotel Alexandria Hotel, 1900 Diagonal Road, 
Alexandria, VA 22314. At this reconvened hearing, additional testimony 
will be received on proposed amendments 1 through 5, listed in the 
initial hearing notice (68 FR 46505) and 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: December 18, 2003.
A.J. Yates,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 03-31790 Filed 12-24-03; 8:45 am]
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