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reserve need not be reduced to conform 

to any recomputed average. The 

Committee expects to carry a $60,000 

reserve into the 2014–15 crop year. It 

expects to add $2,800 to the reserve 

during the year, for a carryout of 

approximately $62,800, which is below 

the limit specified in the order. 

The Committee reviewed and 

unanimously recommended 2014–15 

crop year expenditures of $56,200. Prior 

to arriving at this budget, the Committee 

considered information from various 

sources, such as the Committee’s Budget 

Subcommittee. Alternative expenditure 

levels and assessment rates were 

discussed by the subcommittee, based 

upon the relative value of various 

projects to the date industry and the 

Committee. The assessment rate of $0.20 

per hundredweight of dates was then 

recommended after consideration of 

several factors, including the 

anticipated 2014–15 crop size, the 

Committee’s estimates of the incoming 

reserve funds, other income, and their 

anticipated expenses. 

A review of historical and preliminary 

information pertaining to the upcoming 

crop year indicates that the grower price 

for the 2014–15 crop year could range 

between $45.00 and $55.00 per 

hundredweight of dates. Utilizing these 

estimates and the assessment rate of 

$0.20 per hundredweight, the estimated 

assessment revenue for the 2014–15 

crop year as a percentage of total grower 

revenue could range between 0.36 and 

0.44 percent. 

This action decreases the assessment 

obligation imposed on handlers. 

Assessments are applied uniformly on 

all handlers, and some of the costs may 

be passed on to producers. However, 

decreasing the assessment rate reduces 

the burden on handlers, and may reduce 

the burden on producers. In addition, 

the Committee’s and subcommittee’s 

meetings were widely publicized 

throughout the California date industry, 

and all interested persons were invited 

to attend the meetings and encouraged 

to participate in Committee 

deliberations on all issues. Like all 

Committee meetings, the June 25, 2014, 

meeting was a public meeting and all 

entities, both large and small, were able 

to express views on this issue. Industry 

members also discussed the various 

possible assessment rates, potential crop 

size, and estimated expenses at the 

Budget Subcommittee meeting on June 

4, 2014. Finally, interested persons are 

invited to submit comments on this 

interim rule, including the regulatory 

and informational impacts of this action 

on small businesses. 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35), the order’s information 

collection requirements have been 

previously approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) and 

assigned OMB No. 0581–0178, 

‘‘Vegetable and Specialty Crop 

Marketing Orders.’’ No changes in those 

requirements as a result of this action 

are necessary. Should any changes 

become necessary, they would be 

submitted to OMB for approval. 

This action imposes no additional 

reporting or recordkeeping requirements 

on either small or large Riverside 

County, California date handlers. As 

with all Federal marketing order 

programs, reports and forms are 

periodically reviewed to reduce 

information requirements and 

duplication by industry and public 

sector agencies. 

AMS is committed to complying with 

the E-Government Act, to promote the 

use of the internet and other 

information technologies to provide 

increased opportunities for citizen 

access to Government information and 

services, and for other purposes. 

USDA has not identified any relevant 

Federal rules that duplicate, overlap, or 

conflict with this rule. 

A small business guide on complying 

with fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop 

marketing agreements and orders may 

be viewed at: http://www.ams.usda.gov/ 

MarketingOrdersSmallBusinessGuide. 

Any questions about the compliance 

guide should be sent to Jeffrey Smutny 

at the previously mentioned address in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

After consideration of all relevant 

material presented, including the 

information and recommendation 

submitted by the Committee and other 

available information, it is hereby found 

that this rule, as hereinafter set forth, 

will tend to effectuate the declared 

policy of the Act. 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553, it is also 

found and determined upon good cause 

that it is impracticable, unnecessary, 

and contrary to the public interest to 

give preliminary notice prior to putting 

this rule into effect, and that good cause 

exists for not postponing the effective 

date of this rule until 30 days after 

publication in the Federal Register 

because: (1) The 2014–15 crop year 

begins on October 1, 2014, and the 

marketing order requires that the rate of 

assessment for each crop year apply to 

all assessable dates handled during such 

crop year; (2) the action decreases the 

assessment rate for assessable dates 

beginning with the 2014–15 crop year; 

(3) handlers are aware of this action 

which was unanimously recommended 

by the Committee at a public meeting 

and is similar to other assessment rate 

actions issued in past years; and (4) this 

interim rule provides a 60-day comment 

period. All comments timely received 

will be considered prior to finalization 

of this rule. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 987 

Dates, Marketing agreements, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, 7 CFR part 987 is amended as 

follows: 

PART 987—DATES PRODUCED OR 

PACKED IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, 

CALIFORNIA 

■ 1. The authority citation for 7 CFR 

part 987 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601–674. 

■ 2. Section 987.339 is revised to read 

as follows: 

§ 987.339 Assessment rate. 

On and after October 1, 2014, an 

assessment rate of $0.20 per 

hundredweight is established for 

Riverside County, California dates. 

Dated: August 22, 2014. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–20413 Filed 8–26–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

7 CFR Part 946 

[Doc. No. AMS–FV–14–0026; FV14–946–1 

FIR] 

Irish Potatoes Grown in Washington; 

Modification of the Handling 

Regulations for Yellow Fleshed and 

White Types of Potatoes 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Affirmation of interim rule as 

final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Agriculture is adopting, as a final rule, 

without change, an interim rule that 

extended the temporary exemption of 

yellow fleshed and white skin (white 

types) potatoes from minimum quality, 

maturity, pack, marking, and inspection 

requirements under the Washington 

potato marketing order through the 

2014–2015 and subsequent fiscal 

periods. This rule is expected to reduce 

overall industry expenses and increase 

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net returns to producers and handlers 

while continuing to give the industry 

the opportunity to explore alternative 

marketing strategies. 

DATES: Effective August 28, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Teresa Hutchinson, Marketing 

Specialist, or Gary Olson, Regional 

Director, Northwest Marketing Field 

Office, Marketing Order and Agreement 

Division, Fruit and Vegetable Program, 

AMS, USDA; Telephone: (503) 326– 

2724, Fax: (503) 326–7440, or Email: 

Teresa.Hutchinson@ams.usda.gov or 

GaryD.Olson@ams.usda.gov. 

Small businesses may obtain 

information on complying with this and 

other marketing order regulations by 

viewing a guide at the following Web 

site: http://www.ams.usda.gov/

MarketingOrdersSmallBusinessGuide; 

or by contacting Jeffrey Smutny, 

Marketing Order and Agreement 

Division, Fruit and Vegetable Program, 

AMS, USDA, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., STOP 0237, Washington, 

DC 20250–0237; Telephone: (202) 720– 

2491, Fax: (202) 720–8938, or Email: 

Jeffrey.Smutny@ams.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This rule 

is issued under Marketing Order No. 

946, as amended (7 CFR part 946), 

regulating the handling of Irish potatoes 

grown in Washington, hereinafter 

referred to as the ‘‘order.’’ The order is 

effective under the Agricultural 

Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as 

amended (7 U.S.C. 601–674), hereinafter 

referred to as the ‘‘Act.’’ 

The Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) is issuing this rule in 

conformance with Executive Orders 

12866, 13563, and 13175. 

The handling of Irish potatoes grown 

in Washington is regulated by 7 CFR 

part 946. This rule continues in effect 

the interim rule that extended the 

temporary exemption of yellow fleshed 

and white types of potatoes from the 

order’s handling regulations through the 

2014–2015 and subsequent fiscal 

periods. This rule allows the 

Washington potato industry to continue 

to market yellow fleshed and white 

types of potatoes without regard to the 

minimum quality, maturity, pack, 

marking, and inspection requirements 

prescribed under the order. 

In an interim rule published in the 

Federal Register on May 7, 2014, and 

effective on July 1, 2014 (79 FR 26109, 

Doc. No. AMS–FV–14–0026, FV14–946– 

1 IR), § 946.336 was amended to exempt 

yellow fleshed and white types of 

potatoes from minimum quality, 

maturity, pack, marking, and inspection 

requirements under the Washington 

potato marketing order through the 

2014–2015 and subsequent fiscal 

periods. 

Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Pursuant to requirements set forth in 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (5 

U.S.C. 601–612), the Agricultural 

Marketing Service (AMS) has 

considered the economic impact of this 

action on small entities. Accordingly, 

AMS has prepared this final regulatory 

flexibility analysis. 

The purpose of the RFA is to fit 

regulatory actions to the scale of 

businesses subject to such actions in 

order that small businesses will not be 

unduly or disproportionately burdened. 

Marketing orders issued pursuant to the 

Act, and rules issued thereunder, are 

unique in that they are brought about 

through group action of essentially 

small entities acting on their own 

behalf. 

There are 43 handlers of Washington 

potatoes subject to regulation under the 

order and approximately 267 producers 

in the regulated production area. Small 

agricultural service firms are defined by 

the Small Business Administration as 

those having annual receipts of less than 

$7,000,000, and small agricultural 

producers are defined as those having 

annual receipts of less than $750,000 

(13 CFR 121.201). 

For the 2011–2012 marketing year, the 

Committee reports that 11,018,670 

hundredweight of Washington potatoes 

were shipped into the fresh market. 

Based on average f.o.b. prices estimated 

by the USDA’s Economic Research 

Service and Committee data on 

individual handler shipments, the 

Committee estimates that 42, or 

approximately 98 percent of the 

handlers, had annual receipts of less 

than $7,000,000. 

In addition, based on information 

provided by the National Agricultural 

Statistics Service, the average producer 

price for Washington potatoes for 2011– 

2012 was $7.90 per hundredweight. The 

average gross annual revenue for the 267 

Washington potato producers is 

therefore calculated to be approximately 

$326,021. In view of the foregoing, the 

majority of Washington potato handlers 

and producers may be classified as 

small entities. 

This rule continues in effect the 

action that extended the temporary 

exemption of yellow fleshed and white 

types of potatoes from the handling 

regulations through the 2014–2015 and 

subsequent fiscal periods. This rule 

amends the provisions in § 946.336. 

Authority for the change in the order’s 

rules and regulations is provided in 

§ 946.52. 

The Committee does not anticipate 

that this rule will negatively impact 

small businesses. This rule will exempt 

yellow fleshed and white types of 

potatoes from minimum quality, 

maturity, pack, marking, and inspection 

requirements. Though inspections are 

not mandatory for such potatoes during 

the exemption period, handlers may 

voluntarily choose to have their 

potatoes inspected. Handlers are thus 

able to control costs based on the 

demands of their customers. 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35), the order’s information 

collection requirements have been 

previously approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) and 

assigned OMB No. 0581–0178, Generic 

Vegetable and Specialty Crops. No 

changes in those requirements as a 

result of this action are necessary. 

Should any changes become necessary, 

they would be submitted to OMB for 

approval. 

During the exemption period, 

handlers will continue to be required to 

report fresh shipments of yellow fleshed 

and white types of potatoes monthly. 

While this rule requires a reporting 

requirement for shipments of yellow 

fleshed and white types of potatoes, 

their exemption from handling 

regulations also eliminates the more 

frequent reporting requirements 

imposed under the order’s special 

purpose shipment exemptions 

(§ 946.336(d) and (e)). Under these 

paragraphs, handlers are required to 

provide detailed reports whenever they 

divert regulated potatoes for livestock 

feed, charity, seed, prepeeling, 

processing, grading and storing in 

specified counties in Oregon, and 

experimentation. 

Therefore, any additional reporting or 

recordkeeping requirements on either 

small or large handlers of yellow fleshed 

and white types of potatoes are expected 

to be offset by the elimination of the 

other reporting requirements currently 

in effect. In addition, the exemption 

from handling regulations and 

inspection requirements for yellow 

fleshed and white types of potatoes is 

expected to reduce industry expenses. 

As with all Federal marketing order 

programs, reports and forms are 

periodically reviewed to reduce 

information requirements and 

duplication by industry and public 

sector agencies. In addition, USDA has 

not identified any relevant Federal rules 

that duplicate, overlap or conflict with 

this rule. 

Further, the Committee’s meeting was 

widely publicized throughout the 

Washington potato industry and all 

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interested persons were invited to 

participate in Committee deliberations. 

Like all Committee meetings, the 

December 10, 2013, meeting was a 

public meeting and all entities, both 

large and small, were able to express 

views on this issue. 

Comments on the interim rule were 

required to be received on or before July 

7, 2014. No comments were received. 

Therefore, for the reasons given in the 

interim rule, we are adopting the 

interim rule as a final rule, without 

change. 

To view the interim rule, go to: 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!document

Detail;D=AMS-FV-14-0026-0001. 

This action also affirms information 

contained in the interim rule concerning 

Executive Orders 12866, 12988, 13175, 

and 13563; the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35); and the EGov Act (44 U.S.C. 101). 

After consideration of all relevant 

material presented, it is found that 

finalizing the interim rule, without 

change as published in the Federal 

Register (79 FR 26109, May 7, 2014) 

will tend to effectuate the declared 

policy of the Act. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 946 

Marketing agreements, Potatoes, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

PART 946—IRISH POTATOES GROWN 

IN WASHINGTON 

■ Accordingly, the interim rule that 

amended 7 CFR part 946 and that was 

published at 79 FR 26109 on May 7, 

2014, is adopted as a final rule, without 

change. 

Dated: August 22, 2014. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–20409 Filed 8–26–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2014–0176; Directorate 

Identifier 2013–NM–066–AD; Amendment 

39–17951; AD 2014–16–27] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; Dassault 

Aviation Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: We are adopting a new 

airworthiness directive (AD) for certain 

Dassault Aviation Model FALCON 

900EX airplanes. This AD was 

prompted by our determination of the 

need for a revision to the airplane 

airworthiness limitations to introduce a 

corrosion prevention control program, 

among other changes, to the 

maintenance requirements and 

airworthiness limitations. This AD 

requires revising the maintenance or 

inspection program, as applicable, to 

include the maintenance tasks and 

airworthiness limitations specified in 

the Airworthiness Limitations section of 

the airplane maintenance manual. We 

are issuing this AD to prevent reduced 

structural integrity of the airplane, and 

prevent reduced controllability of the 

airplane. 

DATES: This AD becomes effective 

October 1, 2014. 

The Director of the Federal Register 

approved the incorporation by reference 

of a certain publication listed in this AD 

as of October 1, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may examine the AD 

docket on the Internet at http://www.

regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=FAA2014-0176; or in person at the Docket 

Management Facility, U.S. Department 

of Transportation, Docket Operations, 

M–30, West Building Ground Floor, 

Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC. 

For service information identified in 

this AD, contact Dassault Falcon Jet, 

P.O. Box 2000, South Hackensack, NJ 

07606; telephone 201–440–6700; 

Internet http://www.dassaultfalcon.com. 

You may view this referenced service 

information at the FAA, Transport 

Airplane Directorate, 1601 Lind Avenue 

SW., Renton, WA. For information on 

the availability of this material at the 

FAA, call 425–227–1221. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Rodriguez, Aerospace Engineer, 

International Branch, ANM–116, 

Transport Airplane Directorate, FAA, 

1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 

98057–3356; telephone 425–227–1137; 

fax 425–227–1149. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Discussion 

We issued a notice of proposed 

rulemaking (NPRM) to amend 14 CFR 

part 39 by adding an AD that would 

apply to certain Dassault Aviation 

Model FALCON 900EX airplanes. The 

NPRM published in the Federal 

Register on March 31, 2014 (79 FR 

17942). 

The European Aviation Safety Agency 

(EASA), which is the Technical Agent 

for the Member States of the European 

Community, has issued EASA 

Airworthiness Directive 2013–0052, 

dated March 4, 2013 (referred to after 

this as the Mandatory Continuing 

Airworthiness Information, or ‘‘the 

MCAI’’), to correct an unsafe condition 

for certain Dassault Aviation Model 

FALCON 900EX airplanes. The MCAI 

states: 

The airworthiness limitations and 

maintenance requirements for the Falcon 

900EX type design relating to Falcon 900EX 

Easy, Falcon 900LX and Falcon 900DX 

variants, are included in Aircraft 

Maintenance Manual (AMM) chapter 5–40 

and are approved by the European Aviation 

Safety Agency (EASA). 

EASA issued AD 2008–0221 [http://ad.

easa.europa.eu/blob/easa_ad_2008_0221_

Corrected.pdf/AD_2008–0221_1] to require 

accomplishment of the maintenance tasks 

and implementation of the airworthiness 

limitations, as specified in Dassault Aviation 

Falcon 900EX Easy/900LX/900DX AMM 

chapter 5–40 referenced DGT 113875 at 

revision 3. 

Since that [EASA] AD was issued, Dassault 

Aviation issued revision 7 of Falcon 900EX 

Easy/900LX/900DX AMM chapter 5–40, 

which contains new or more restrictive 

maintenance requirements and/or 

airworthiness limitations and introduces, 

among others, the following changes: 

—Tasks renumbering, 

—Introduction of a Corrosion Prevention 

Control Program (CPCP), 

—Revised overhaul limits for screwjack of 

flap actuators -3 version; 

—Revised interval for checking the screw/nut 

play on screwjack of flap actuators -3 

version; 

—Removal of service life limit for screwjack 

of flap actuators; 

—Test of flap asymmetry protection system, 

with an extended inspection interval; 

—Inspection procedures of fuselage and 

wings; 

—Check of overpressure tightness on 

pressurization control regulating valves. 

Compliance with this check is required by 

EASA AD 2008–0072, but AMM chapter 5– 

40 DGT 113875 at revision 7 introduces an 

extended inspection interval; 

—Check of overpressure relief valve vacuum 

supply lines. The maintenance tasks and 

airworthiness limitations, as specified in 

the Falcon 900EX Easy/900LX/900DX 

AMM chapter 5–40, have been identified 

as mandatory actions for continued 

airworthiness of the Falcon EX Easy, 

Falcon 900LX and Falcon 900DX variants 

of the F900EX type design. Failure to 

comply with AMM chapter 5–40 at 

revision 7 may result in an unsafe 

condition. 

For the reasons described above, this 

[EASA] AD requires the implementation of 

the maintenance tasks and airworthiness 

limitations, as specified in the Dassault 

Aviation Falcon 900EX Easy/900LX/900DX 

AMM chapter 5–40 DGT 113875 at revision 

7. 

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