[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 156 (Friday, August 13, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 49458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-20093]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Foreign Agricultural Service


Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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    The Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today 
accepted and began a review of a petition for trade adjustment 
assistance filed under the Fiscal Year 2011 program by the University 
of Rhode Island on behalf of American lobster (Homarus americanus) 
fishermen who catch and market their lobster in Rhode Island. The 
Administrator will determine within 40 days whether or not increasing 
imports of American lobster contributed importantly to a greater than 
15-percent decrease in the production value of lobster compared to the 
average of the three preceding marketing years. If a determination is 
affirmative, fishermen who land and market American lobster in Rhode 
Island will be eligible to apply to the Farm Service Agency for free 
technical assistance and cash benefits.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trade Adjustment Assistance for 
Farmers Program Staff, FAS, USDA by phone: (202) 720-0638 or (202) 690-
0633; or by e-mail at: [email protected]; or visit the TAA 
for Farmers' Web site: http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/taa.

    Dated: August 3, 2010.
Suzanne Hale,
Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-20093 Filed 8-12-10; 8:45 am]
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