[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 212 (Monday, November 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59340-59341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28850]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Opportunity to Comment on the Applicant for the Northeast Indiana 
(IN) Region.

AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration 
(GIPSA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: GIPSA requests comments on the applicant for designation to 
provide official services in part of the geographic area currently 
assigned to East Indiana Grain Inspection, Inc. (East Indiana).

DATES: Comments must be postmarked, or sent by telecopier (FAX) by 
December 2, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted in writing to USDA, GIPSA, Janet 
M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance Division, STOP 3604, Room 
1647-S, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-3604. 
Telecopier (FAX) users may send comments to the automatic telecopier 
machine at 202-690-2755, attention: Janet M. Hart. All comments 
received will be made available for public inspection at the above 
address located at 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., during regular 
business hours.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet M. Hart, telephone 202-720-8525.

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 August 21, 1997, Federal Register (62 FR 44439), GIPSA asked 
persons interested in providing official services in the Northeast 
Indiana area, currently assigned to East Indiana, to submit an 
application for designation. There was one applicant: Northeast Indiana 
Grain Inspection, Inc., a proposed organization to be established by 
Steve Walker to be located at Hoagland, Indiana, applied for 
designation to provide official services in the Northeast Indiana 
region. The Northeast Indiana region consists of the following 
geographic area, in the State of Indiana:
    Bounded on the North by the northern Lagrange and Steuben County 
lines;
    Bounded on the East by the eastern Steuben, De Kalb, Allen, and 
Adams, County lines;
    Bounded on the South by the southern Adams and Wells County lines; 
and
    Bounded on the West by the western Wells County line; the southern 
Huntington and Wabash County lines; the western Wabash County line 
north to State Route 114; State Route 114 northwest to State Route 19; 
State Route 19 north to Kosciusko County; the western and northern 
Kosciusko County lines; the western Noble and Lagrange County lines.
    The following grain elevator, located outside of the above 
contiguous geographic area, is part of this geographic area assignment: 
E. M. P. Grain, Payne, Paulding County, Ohio (located inside Lima Grain 
Inspection Service, Inc.'s, area).
    GIPSA is publishing this notice to provide interested persons the 
opportunity to present comments concerning the applicant. Commenters 
are encouraged to submit reasons and pertinent data for support or 
objection to the designation of this applicant. All comments must be 
submitted to the

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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: October 24, 1997.
Neil E. Porter,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 97-28850 Filed 10-31-97; 8:45 am]
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