[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70994-70995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26857]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

[04-TX-A]


Opportunity for Designation in South Texas

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration 
(GIPSA) has received inquiries, and several letters from the grain 
industry in Texas indicating a need for designating an organization to 
provide official services in South Texas. GIPSA is asking persons 
interested in providing official services in unassigned areas of South 
Texas to submit an application for designation.

DATES: Applications and comments must be postmarked or electronically 
dated on or before January 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit applications and comments on this 
notice. You may submit applications and comments by any of the 
following methods:
     Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver to Janet M. Hart, Chief, 
Review Branch, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, Room 1647-S, 1400 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250.
     Fax: Send by facsimile transmission to (202) 690-2755, 
attention: Janet M. Hart.
     E-mail: Send via electronic mail to [email protected].
     Mail: Send hardcopy to Janet M. Hart, Chief, Review 
Branch, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, STOP 3604, 1400 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-3604.
    Read Applications and Comments: All applications and comments will 
be available for public inspection at the office above during regular 
business hours (7 CFR 1.27(b)).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet M. Hart at 202-720-8525, e-mail 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Action has been reviewed and determined 
not to be a rule or regulation as defined in Executive Order 12866 and 
Departmental Regulation 1512-1; therefore, the Executive Order and 
Departmental Regulation do not apply to this Action.
    Section 7(f)(1) of the United States Grain Standards Act, as 
amended (Act), authorizes GIPSA's Administrator to designate a 
qualified applicant to provide official services in a specified area 
after determining that the applicant is better able than any other 
applicant to provide such official services.
    Section 7(g)(1) of the Act provides that designations of official 
agencies shall end not later than triennially and may be renewed 
according to the criteria and procedures prescribed in Section 7(f) of 
the Act.
    GIPSA is asking for applicants to provide official services in 
South Texas. The South Texas area being considered for assignment to 
the applicant or applicants selected for designation, pursuant to 
Section (7)(2) of the Act, is as follows:
    Bounded on the north by the northern Jack, Wise, Denton, Collin, 
Hunt, Delta, Franklin, Titus, Morris, and Marion County line east to 
the Texas State line;
    Bounded on the east by the eastern Texas State line south to the 
southern Texas State line;
    Bounded on the south by the southern Texas State line west to the 
western Val Verde County line;
    Bounded on the west by the western Val Verde, Edwards, Kimble, 
Mason, San Saba, Mills, Comanche, Erath, Palo Pinto, and Jack County 
lines north to the northern Jack County line, excluding those export 
port locations served by GIPSA.
    Opportunity for designation. Interested persons are hereby given 
the opportunity to apply for designation to provide official services 
in the geographic areas specified above under the provisions of Section 
7(f) of the Act and section 800.196(d) of the regulations issued 
thereunder. Designation in the specified geographic areas is for a 
period of no more than 3 years. Persons wishing to apply for

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designation should contact the Compliance Division at the address 
listed above for forms and information, or obtain applications at the 
GIPSA Web site, http://www.usda.gov/gipsa/oversight/parovreg.htm.
    Applications, comments, and other available information will be 
considered in determining which applicant will be designated.

    Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
71 et seq.).

    Dated: December 2, 2004.
Donna Reifschneider,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-26857 Filed 12-7-04; 8:45 am]
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