[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 13, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1962-1963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-570]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Deposting of Stockyards

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We are deposting four stockyards. These facilities can no 
longer be used as stockyards and, therefore, are no longer required to 
be posted.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 13, 2004.

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 is subject to the provisions of Title 
III of the P&S Act (7 U.S.C. 201-203 and 205-217a) until the Secretary 
deposts the stockyard by public notice.
    We depost a stockyard when the facility can no longer be used as a 
stockyard. Some of the reasons a facility can no longer be used as a 
stockyard include: the facility has been moved and the posted facility 
is abandoned, the facility has been torn down or otherwise destroyed, 
such as by fire, the facility is dilapidated beyond repair, or the 
facility has been converted and its function changed.
    This document notifies the public that the following four 
stockyards no longer meet the definition of stockyard and that we are 
deposting the facilities.

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                                 Stockyard name and
         Facility No.                 location            Date posted
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CO-151.......................  Western Slope          January 26, 1984.
                                Livestock Auction,
                                Montrose, Colorado.
ID-125.......................  Weiser Livestock       March 29, 1950.
                                Commision, Weiser,
                                Idaho.
MO-228.......................  Nixa Livestock         October 24, 1972.
                                Auction Co., Nixa,
                                Missouri.
TX-165.......................  Ennis Livestock        January 09, 1957.
                                Market Co., Ennis,
                                Texas.
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Effective Date

    This notice is effective upon publication in the Federal Register 
because it relieves a restriction and, therefore, may be made effective 
in less than 30 days after publication in the Federal Register without 
prior notice or other public procedure.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 202.

Donna Reifschneider,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-570 Filed 1-12-04; 8:45 am]
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