[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 46 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 11933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4703]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

[04-CA-C]


Opportunity to Comment on the Applicants for the California 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 California area.

DATES: Comments must be postmarked or electronically dated on or before 
April 11, 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 and 
Departmental Regulation 1512-1; therefore, the Executive Order and 
Departmental Regulation do not apply to this action.
    In the January 18, 2005, Federal Register (70 FR 2844), GIPSA 
announced that California Department of Food and Agriculture asked 
GIPSA for a voluntary cancellation of their designation effective April 
30, 2005. Accordingly, California's designation will cease effective 
April 30, 2005, and GIPSA asked persons interested in providing 
official services in the California area to submit an application for 
designation by February 17, 2005.
    There were four applicants for the California area: Farwell 
Commodity and Grain Services, Inc. (Farwell Southwest) an official 
agency designated effective April 1, 2005; a company proposing to do 
business as California Agri Inspection Co., Ltd. (California Agri) with 
the parent company of Overseas Merchandise Inspection Co., Ltd.; 
California Grain Inspection Services (California Grain), a partnership 
owned by Robert Chavez and Tim A. Walters; and Imperial Grain 
Inspection Service (Imperial) a partnership owned by Tim A. Walters and 
Debra J. Walters.
    Farwell Southwest applied for designation in Imperial, San Diego, 
and Riverside Counties, California.
    California Agri applied for designation in Alameda, Alpine, Amador, 
Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, 
Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Monterey, Napa, 
Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Joaquin, Santa 
Clara, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, 
Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba, Counties, California.
    California Grain applied for designation in Corcoran, Fresno, 
Imperial, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Monterey, Orange, 
Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, and 
Ventura Counties, California.
    The proposed applicants named above indicated they would be willing 
to accept more or less area in order to provide needed service to all 
requestors.
    Imperial applied for designation only in Imperial, San Bernardino, 
San Diego, and Riverside Counties, California.
    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: March 4, 2005.
David R. Shipman,
Deputy Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-4703 Filed 3-9-05; 8:45 am]
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