[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 77 (Friday, April 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19881-19882]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9824]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


Opportunity for Designation in the Cairo (IL) Area

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (Act), 
provides that official agency designations shall end not later than 
triennially and may be renewed. The designation of Cairo Grain 
Inspection Agency, Inc. (Cairo), will end October 31, 1995, according 
to the Act, and GIPSA is asking persons interested in providing 
official services in the specified geographic area to submit an 
application for designation.

DATES: Applications must be postmarked or sent by telecopier (FAX) on 
or before May 30, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Applications must be submitted to Janet M. Hart, Chief, 
Review Branch, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, Room 1647 South 
Building, P.O. Box 96454, Washington, DC 20090-6454. Telecopier (FAX) 
users may send applications to the automatic telecopier machine at 202-
720-1015, attention: Janet M. Hart. If an application is submitted by 
telecopier, GIPSA reserves the right to request an original 
application. All applications will be made available for public 
inspection at this 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.
    Section 7(f)(1) of the Act authorizes GIPSA's Administrator to 
designate a qualified applicant to provide official services in a 
specified area after determining that the applicant is better able than 
any other applicant to provide such official services.
    GIPSA designated Cairo, main office located in Cairo, Illinois, to 
provide inspection and Class X and Class Y [[Page 19882]] weighing 
services under the Act on November 1, 1992.
    Section 7(g)(1) of the Act provides that designations of official 
agencies shall end not later than triennially and may be renewed 
according to the criteria and procedures prescribed in Section 7(f) of 
the Act. The designation of Cairo ends on October 31, 1995.
    The geographic area presently assigned to Cairo, pursuant to 
Section 7(f)(2) of the Act, which may be assigned to the applicant 
selected for designation is as follows: Randolph County (southwest of 
State Route 150 from the Mississippi River north to State Route 3); 
Jackson County (southwest of State Route 3 southeast to State Route 
149; State Route 149 east to State Route 13; State Route 13 southeast 
to U.S. Route 51; U.S. Route 51 south to Union County); and Alexander, 
Johnson, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, and Union Counties, Illinois. 
Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, 
Marshall, McCracken, and Trigg Counties, Kentucky.
    Benton, Dickson, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Lake, Montgomery, 
Obion, Stewart, and Weakley Counties, Tennessee.
    Cairo's assigned geographic area does not include the following 
grain elevator inside Cairo's area which has been and will continue to 
be serviced by the following official agency: Memphis Grain and Hay 
Association: Continental Grain Co., Tiptonville, Lake County, 
Tennessee.
    Interested persons, including Cairo, are hereby given the 
opportunity to apply for designation to provide official services in 
the geographic area specified above under the provisions of Section 
7(f) of the Act and section 800.196(d) of the regulations issued 
thereunder. Designation in the specified geographic area is for the 
period beginning November 1, 1995, and ending October 31, 1998. Persons 
wishing to apply for designation should contact the Compliance Division 
at the address listed above for forms and information.
    Applications and other available information will be considered in 
determining which applicant will be designated.

    Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
71 et seq.).

    Dated: April 13, 1995.
Neil E. Porter,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 95-9824 Filed 4-20-95; 8:45 am]
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