[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 8, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6612-6613]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2387]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

[05-TX-C]


Opportunity To Comment on the Applicants for the South Texas Area

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: GIPSA requests comments on the applicants for designation to 
provide official services in the unassigned areas of South Texas.

DATES: Comments must be postmarked or electronically dated on or before 
March 10, 2005.

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on the applicants 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 Comments: All 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

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and Departmental Regulation 1512-1; therefore, the Executive Order and 
Departmental Regulation do not apply to this action.
    In the December 8, 2004, Federal Register (69 FR 70994), GIPSA 
asked persons interested in providing official services in the South 
Texas area to submit an application for designation.
    There were four applicants for the South Texas area: Plainview 
Grain Inspection and Weighing Service, Inc. (Plainview), and D. R. 
Schaal Agency, Inc., (Schaal) both currently designated official 
agencies; a company proposing to do business as Global Grain Inspection 
Services, Inc., (Global) with the parent company of BSI Inspectorate 
America Corporation, and Tyrone Martin, Sr., proposing to do business 
as Gulf South Regional Grain Service, LLC, (Gulf South). Plainview, 
Schaal, Global, and Gulf South applied for designation to provide 
official services in the entire area named in the December 8, 2004, 
Federal Register.
    GIPSA is publishing this notice to provide interested persons the 
opportunity to present comments concerning the applicants. Commenters 
are encouraged to submit reasons and pertinent data for support or 
objection to the designation of the applicants. All comments must be 
submitted to the Compliance Division at the above address. Comments and 
other available information will be considered in making a final 
decision. GIPSA will publish notice of the final decision in the 
Federal Register, and GIPSA will send the applicants written 
notification of the decision.

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

    Dated: February 3, 2005.
David R. Shipman,
Deputy Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-2387 Filed 2-7-05; 8:45 am]
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