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Vol. 77, No. 76 

Thursday, April 19, 2012 

*Conversion factor: 1 metric ton = 1.10231125 

short tons. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Office of the Secretary 

USDA Increases and Reassigns Fiscal 

Year 2012 Overall Allotment Quantity 

and Increases Fiscal Year 2012 Raw 

Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) today announced a 

51,000 short tons raw value (STRV) 

increase in the fiscal year (FY) 2012 

Overall Allotment Quantity (OAQ), a 

reassignment of projected surplus beet 

sugar marketing allocations between 

beet processors, and a reassignment of 

surplus cane sugar marketing allotment 

from domestic sugarcane processors to a 

420,000 STRV increase in the FY 2012 

raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). 

DATES: Effective Date: April 19, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Angel F. Gonzalez, Import Policies and 

Export Reporting Division, Foreign 

Agricultural Service, AgStop 1021, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

DC 20250–1021; or by telephone (202) 

720–2916; or by fax to (202) 720–0876; 

or by email to 

angel.f.gonzalez@fas.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USDA 

today announced an increase in the FY 

2012 OAQ to 9,507,250 STRV, which 

represents 85 percent of the demand 

estimate published in the April 2012 

World Agricultural Supply and Demand 

Estimates (WASDE) report. The increase 

is split in accordance with the Sugar 

Marketing Allotment program, 54.35/ 

45.65 percent between the beet and cane 

sectors, or 27,719 and 23,281 STRV, 

respectively. USDA evaluated each 

sugar beet processor’s ability to market 

its full allocation, and decided not to 

reassign beet sugar allotment to imports 

at this time due to uncertainties that 

still exist in forecasting FY 2012 sugar 

production. However, beet sugar 

marketing allocations are transferred 

from beet sugar processors with surplus 

allocation to those with deficit 

allocation (see Table). 

In addition, USDA determined that all 

sugarcane processors have surplus 

allocations of the FY 2012 cane sugar 

marketing allotment. Therefore, the 

420,000 STRV reassignment to the raw 

sugar TRQ increase reduced all 

sugarcane states’ sugar marketing 

allotments. The total cane sector 

allotment decreased in net from 

4,316,778 to 3,920,060 STRV. The new 

cane state allotments are Florida, 

1,926,658 STRV; Louisiana, 1,554,521 

STRV; Texas, 170,745 STRV; and 

Hawaii, 268,135 STRV. The FY 2012 

sugar marketing allotment program will 

not prevent any domestic sugarcane 

processors from marketing all of their 

FY 2012 sugar supply. Due to 

uncertainties that still exist in 

forecasting each company’s and sector’s 

FY 2012 sugar production, further 

reassignments are likely. 

On July 30, 2011, USDA established 

the FY 2012 TRQ for raw cane sugar at 

1,231,497 STRV (1,117,195 metric tons 

raw value, MTRV *), the minimum to 

which the United States is committed 

under the World Trade Organization 

(WTO) Uruguay Round Agreements. 

Pursuant to Additional U.S. Note 5 to 

Chapter 17 of the U.S. Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule (HTS) and Section 359k 

of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 

1938, as amended, the Secretary of 

Agriculture today increased the quantity 

of raw cane sugar eligible for the lower 

tier of duties of the HTS during FY 2012 

by 420,000 STRV (381,018 MTRV). With 

this increase, the overall FY 2012 raw 

sugar TRQ is now 1,651,497 STRV 

(1,498,213 MTRV). Raw cane sugar 

under this quota must be accompanied 

by a certificate for quota eligibility and 

may be entered until September 30, 

2012. The Office of the U.S. Trade 

Representative will allocate this 

increase among supplying countries and 

customs areas. 

The 420,000 STRV raw sugar TRQ 

increase, when combined with an 

estimated reallocation of 70,000 STRV, 

is expected to yield a net increase in 

raw sugar imports of 450,000 STRV, 

after normal TRQ slippage because not 

all supplying countries will fill their 

import quota allocations. This TRQ 

increase is not currently expected to 

increase FY 2012 domestic sugar 

supplies sufficiently to attain a level 

USDA considers adequate. USDA used 

an ending stocks-to-use level of 14.5 

percent in estimating the ‘‘reasonable 

ending stocks’’ parameter for the most 

recent FY 2012 sugar market quarterly 

review mandated by statute. Significant 

uncertainties about FY 2012 Mexican 

imports, domestic refined and raw sugar 

demand, the early sugar beet crop, and 

other market factors make it prudent for 

USDA to not increase imported supplies 

further at this time. USDA will reevaluate market conditions in June, as 

required by statute, and increase, as 

determined appropriate, the TRQ to 

bring the expected FY 2012 endingstocks-use to within the traditional 

range that USDA considers adequate, 

i.e., 13.5 to 15.5 percent. 

Dated: April 13, 2012. 

Michael T. Scuse, 

Acting Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign 

Agricultural Services. 

The revised FY 2012 cane and beet 

sugar marketing allotments and 

processor allocations table is shown 

below. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 

Funding Opportunity Title; Risk 

Management Education and Outreach 

Partnerships Program 

Announcement Type: Announcement 

of Availability of Funds and Request for 

Application for Competitive 

Cooperative Partnership Agreements. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number (CFDAs): 10.459. 

DATES: All applications, which must be 

submitted electronically through 

Grants.gov, must be received by close of 

business (COB) at 11:59 p.m. EST, on 

June 4, 2012. Hard copy applications 

will NOT be accepted. 

SUMMARY: The following paragraph has 

been added to the beginning of the 

Summary portion of Federal Register 

Notice 77 FR 21067, April 9, 2012: 

The Risk Management Agency (RMA) 

is changing the Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number 

from 10.460 to 10.459. The CFDA 

number is needed in order to process an 

application through Grants.gov. The 

original CFDA number 10.460 published 

in the Federal Register on April 9, 2012, 

is not valid. If you tried to process your 

application using 10.460, please login to 

Grants.gov and use CFDA Number 

10.459. 

All other portions and sections of the 

full text Notice remain unchanged. 

The Federal Crop Insurance 

Corporation (FCIC), operating through 

the Risk Management Agency (RMA), 

announces its intent to award 

approximately $3,000,000 (subject to 

availability of funds) to fund the Risk 

Management Education and Outreach 

Partnerships Program. 

Purpose: The purpose of this 

competitive cooperative partnership 

agreement program is to deliver crop 

insurance education and risk 

management training to U.S. 

agricultural producers to assist them in 

identifying and managing production, 

marketing, legal, financial and human 

risk. The program gives priority to: (1) 

Educating producers of crops currently 

not insured under Federal crop 

insurance, specialty crops, and 

underserved commodities, including 


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