[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 8, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44486-44487]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15420]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Amendment to Certification of Colorado's Central Filing System

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In response to a request from Colorado's Secretary of State we 
are approving amendments to the debtor identification and signature 
requirements of the certified central filing system for Colorado to 
permit the conversion of all debtor social security and taxpayer 
identification numbers into approved unique identifiers; and the filing 
of effective financing statements and amendments that are authorized or 
authenticated without signatures. The proposed specific procedure 
whereby Colorado will automatically convert social security numbers and 
taxpayer identification numbers into ten number unique identifiers has 
been reviewed and determined to permit the numerical searching of 
master lists while providing protection against identity theft.

DATES: Effective Date: August 8, 2007.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 
Administration (GIPSA) administers the Clear Title program for the 
Secretary of Agriculture. The Clear Title program is authorized by 
Section 1324 of the Food Security Act of 1985, which requires that 
States implementing central filing system for notification of liens on 
farm products must have such systems certified by the Secretary of 
Agriculture.
    A listing of the states with certified central filing systems is 
available through the Internet on the GIPSA Web site (http://www.usda.gov/gipsa/). Farm products covered by a State's central filing 
system are also identified through the GIPSA Web site. The Colorado 
central filing system covers all farm products.
    We originally certified the central filing system for Colorado on 
September 28, 1992. On March 30, 2007, Keith Whitelaw, Director, 
Business Division, Colorado Secretary of State's Office, requested the 
certification be amended to incorporate the use of an approved unique 
identifier other than a Social Security Number, in accordance with 2004 
amendments to Section 1324 of the Food Security Act. On June 12, 2007, 
Mr. Whitelaw confirmed that Colorado's clear title forms, instructions 
and regulations had also been modified to indicate that signatures were 
optional when the filing of effective financing statements, and 
amendments thereto, is authorized or otherwise authenticated, in 
accordance with the 2002 amendments to Section 1324 of the Food 
Security Act.
    This notice announces our approval of the amended certification for 
Colorado's central filing system. Details of the specific procedure by 
which Colorado will create approved unique identifiers are being 
provided by GIPSA to the Secretaries of State of other states with 
certified central filing systems. The statewide central filing system 
of Colorado is certified for all farm products produced in that state. 
Examples of farm products and possible entries for lien identification 
include: All field crops, all fruits, all livestock,

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 all vegetables, angora, apples, apricots, artichokes, asparagus;
    Barley, beefalo, broccoli, buffalo, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, 
cattle and calves, cauliflower, celery, cherries, chickens, corn, 
cotton (field or row crop), cucumbers;
    Dry beans, ducks, eggplant, eggs, elk, emu, fish (specify), flax 
seed, fur-bearing animals (specify), geese, grapes, green beans, green 
peas;
    Hay, hogs, honey, honeydew melon, horses, legumes, lettuce, llamas, 
milk, millet, mules, muskmelon;
    Nectarines, oats, okra, onions, ostrich, other field crops 
(specify), other fruits (specify), other livestock (specify), other 
vegetables (specify);
    Peaches, pears, pecans, peppers, pheasant, plums, popcorn, 
potatoes, pumpkins, quail, radishes, raspberries, rye;
    Safflower, seed crops (specify), semen, sheep and lamb, silage, 
snap beans, sorghum grain, soybeans, squash, strawberries, sugar beets, 
sunflower seeds, sweet corn;
    Tomatoes, trees (specify), triticale, turkeys, turnips, vetch, 
walnuts, watermelon, wheat, and wool.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1631, 7 CFR 2.22(a)(3)(v) and 2.81(a)(5), 
and 9 CFR 205.101(e).

James E. Link,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-15420 Filed 8-7-07; 8:45 am]
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