Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/10/23/01-26593/milk-in-the-central-marketing-area-notice-of-hearing-on-proposed-amendments-to-tentative-marketing
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Federal Register :: Milk in the Central Marketing Area; Notice of Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Tentative Marketing Agreement and Order
Milk in the Central Marketing Area; Notice of Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Tentative Marketing Agreement and Order
A Proposed Rule by the Agricultural Marketing Service on 10/23/2001
The hearing will convene at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 14, 2001.
66 FR 53551
53551-53554 (4 pages)
Docket No. AO-313-A44
DA-01-07
01-26593
PART 1032—[Amended]
Proposed by: Dairy Farmers of America, Prairie Farms Cooperative, and Swiss Valley Farms:
Proposed by: Dairy Farmers of America:
Proposed by: Anderson-Erickson Dairy Company, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., Family Dairies USA, First District Association, Foremost Farms, Swiss Valley Dairy, Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Producers, Manitowoc Milk Producers Cooperative, and Mid-West Dairymen's Company:
Proposed by: Associated Milk Producers Inc., Foremost Farms USA, Land O'Lakes, First District Association, Family Dairies USA, Midwest Dairymen's Co., Manitowoc Milk Producers Cooperative, and Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Producers:
Proposed by: Dairy Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service:
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A public hearing is being held to consider proposals that would amend certain pooling and related provisions of the Central order. Proposals include amending the pool supply plant and pool supply plant system provisions of the order, eliminating the provision for a cooperative supply plant and amending the portion of the producer milk definition that specifies the percentage of a handler's milk that may be diverted to nonpool plants. Another proposed amendment to the order's pooling provisions would allow milk diverted to a nonpool plant before the producer's milk is delivered to a pool plant to be considered producer milk and allow the producer's milk to retain its association with the market for any months during which the handler fails to pool the producer's milk under any order. Other proposals would provide for establishing separate pooling provisions by state of origin for milk from areas outside the Central order marketing area, preventing the pooling of milk that is already pooled on a State marketwide order and increasing minimum partial payments to producers and cooperative associations. Proponents have requested that these issues be handled on an emergency basis.
The hearing will be held at the Hilton Hotel-Kansas City Airport, 8801 N.W. 112th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64153; (816) 891-8900.
Constance M. Brenner, Marketing Specialist, Order Formulation Branch, USDA/AMS/Dairy Programs, Room 2971, South Building, P.O. Box 96456, Washington, DC 20090-6456, (202)720-2357, e-mail address connie.brenner@usda.gov.
Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special accommodations should contact Bob Start Printed Page 53552Vander Linden at 913-495-9313 or Dave Stukenberg at 913-495-9326; email econ.staff@fmmacentral.com before the hearing begins.
Notice is hereby given of a public hearing to be held at the Hilton Hotel—Kansas City Airport, 8801 N.W. 112th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64164; (816) 891-8900; beginning at 8:30 a.m., on Wednesday, November 14, 2001, with respect to proposed amendments to the tentative marketing agreement and to the order regulating the handling of milk in the Central marketing area.
Evidence also will be taken to determine whether emergency marketing conditions exist that would warrant omission of a recommended decision under the rules of practice and procedure (7 CFR 900.12(d)) with respect to any of the proposed amendments.
Interested parties who wish to introduce exhibits should provide the Presiding Officer at the hearing with three copies of such exhibits for the Official Record. Also, it would be helpful if additional copies are available for the use of other participants at the hearing.
The authority citation for 7 CFR Part 1032 continues to read as follows:
Amend the pool supply plant provision to reduce the percentage of milk physically received at a supply plant that must be shipped to distributing plants during the fall months from 35 to 25 percent and from 25 to 20 percent during all other months of the year, with the fall months changed from September through November and January to August through November. In addition, handlers would not be able to use shipments under § 1000.9(c) or § 1032.13(c) to qualify plants located outside the marketing area. While qualifying shipments would be expanded to include shipments to any plant that is part of a distributing plant unit, they would also be limited by excluding shipments to distributing plants regulated under other Federal orders. These provisions are proposed to be amended to read as follows:
(c) A supply plant from which the quantity of bulk fluid milk products shipped to (and physically unloaded into) plants described in paragraph (c)(1) of this section is not less than 25 percent during the months of August through November and 20 percent in all other months of the Grade A milk received from dairy farmers (except dairy farmers described in § 1032.12(b)) and handlers described in § 1000.9(c), including milk diverted pursuant to § 1032.13, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Qualifying shipments may be made to plants described in paragraphs (a), (b) or (e) of this section.
(2) The operator of a pool plant located in the marketing area may include as qualifying shipments milk delivered directly from producer's farms pursuant to § 1000.9(c) or § 1032.13(c). Handlers may not use shipments pursuant to § 1000.9(c) or § 1032.13(c) to qualify plants located outside the marketing area.
Remove the provision for a cooperative supply plant, as follows:
(d) Removed and reserved.
Revise the provision for a system of supply plants by providing for increased shipping percentages (5 percent higher than for individual supply plants in the Start Printed Page 53553months of August through November and 3 percent higher in all other months) by adding a new paragraph (f)(1) and redesignating paragraphs § 1032.7(f)(1) through (4) as paragraphs § 1032.7(f)(2) through (5) to read as follows:
(1) The applicable percentage requirements for each unit shall be 30 percent for the months of August through November, and 23 percent in all other months.
Amend the provision authorizing the market administrator to adjust shipping percentages to remove the reference to paragraph (d) by revising the first sentence of paragraph (g) to read as follows:
(g) The applicable shipping percentages of paragraphs (c) and (f) of this section may be increased or decreased, for all or part of the marketing area, by the market administrator if the market administrator finds that such adjustment is necessary to encourage needed shipments or to prevent uneconomic shipments.
Relax the diversion limits for the fall months from 65 to 75 percent of producer receipts and change those months by including August and removing January; relax the diversion limits for the rest of the year from 75 to 80 percent of producer receipts. Diversion limits would apply to all months. Paragraph (d)(2) would read as follows:
(2) The quantity of milk diverted to a nonpool plant by a pool plant operator or by a cooperative association pursuant to § 1000.9(c) may not exceed 75 percent of the producer milk receipts reported by the handler pursuant to § 1032.30 for the months of August through November and 80 percent of the remaining months' producer milk receipts reported by the handler pursuant to § 1032.30 provided that not less than 25 percent of such receipts in the months of August through November and 20 percent of the remaining months' receipts are delivered to plants described in § 1032.7(a), (b) and (e). These percentages are subject to any adjustments that may be made pursuant to § 1032.13(d)(5);
Increase the partial payment rate to producers and cooperative associations from the lowest class price for the preceding month to 110 percent of that price in paragraphs (a)(1) and (c)(1) of § 1032.73 to read as follows:
(1) Partial Payment. For each producer who has not discontinued shipments as of the date of this partial payment, payment shall be made so that it is received by each producer on or before the 26th day of the month (except as provided in § 1000.90) for milk received during the first 15 days of the month from the producer at not less than 110 percent times the lowest announced class price for the preceding month, less proper deductions authorized in writing by the producer.
(1) For bulk fluid milk products and bulk fluid cream products received from a cooperative association in its capacity as the operator of a pool plant and for milk received from a cooperative association in its capacity as a handler pursuant to § 1000.9(c) during the first 15 days of the month, at not less than 110 percent times the lowest announced class prices per hundredweight for the preceding month;
Amend the pool supply plant and producer milk definitions to require milk from “distant” locations to be reported by individual state units that would each be subject to the performance standards applicable to supply plants and producer milk in the applicable paragraphs in §§ 1032.7 and 1032.13 to read as follows:
(4) If milk is delivered to a plant physically located outside the States of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota (or certain designated counties), Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin (or certain designated counties) by producers also located outside the area specified in this paragraph, producer receipts at such plant shall be organized by individual state units and each unit shall be subject to the following requirements:
(i) Each unit shall be reported separately pursuant to § 1032.30.
(ii) At least the required minimum percentage specified in § 1032.7(c) of the producer milk of each unit of the handler shall be delivered to plants described in § 1032.7 (a), (b) or (e), and such deliveries shall not be used by the handler in meeting the minimum shipping percentages required pursuant to § 1032.7(f); and
(iii) The percentages of 1032.7(c)(4) are subject to any adjustments that may be made pursuant to § 1032.7(g).
Subject to the conditions of paragraph (e) of this section, “producer milk” means the skim milk (or the skim equivalent of components of skim milk), including nonfat components, and butterfat in milk of a producer that is:
(e) Milk receipts from producers whose farms that are physically located outside the States of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota (or certain designated counties), Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin (or certain designated counties) such producers shall be organized by individual state units and each unit shall be subject to the following requirements:
(1) Each unit shall be reported separately pursuant to § 1032.30.
(2) For pooling purposes, each reporting unit must satisfy the shipping standards specified for a supply plant pursuant to § 1032.7(c), and such deliveries shall not be used by the handler in meeting the minimum shipping percentages required pursuant to § 1032.13(d)(2); and
(3) The percentages of § 1032.13(d)(2) are subject to any adjustments that may be made pursuant to § 1032.13(d)(5).
Amend paragraph (d)(6) of the “Producer Milk” definition to exclude Start Printed Page 53554milk that is pooled under any other marketwide equalization pool to read as follows:
(6) Provided, however, that diverted milk pursuant to this paragraph shall not include milk subject to the minimum pricing provisions of another federal order or milk which qualifies for inclusion and participation in a marketwide equalization pool under a milk classification and pricing program imposed under the authority of a State government.
Amend paragraph (d)(1) of the “Producer Milk” definition to allow milk diverted to a nonpool plant before the producer's milk is delivered to a pool plant to be considered producer milk and allow the producer's milk to retain its association with the market for any months during which the handler fails to pool the producer's milk under any order to read as follows:
(1) Milk of a dairy farmer shall not be eligible for diversion unless at least one day's production of such dairy farmer has been physically received as producer milk at a pool plant during the first month the dairy farmer is a producer and the dairy farmer has continuously retained producer status since that time. If a dairy farmer loses producer status under the order in this part (except as a result of a temporary loss of Grade A approval or as a result of the handler of the dairy farmer's milk failing to pool the milk under any order), the dairy farmer's milk shall not be eligible for diversion unless milk of the dairy farmer has been physically received as producer milk at a pool plant.
Copies of this notice of hearing and the order may be procured from the Market Administrator of the Central Marketing Area or from the Hearing Clerk, Room 1083, South Building, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250, or may be inspected there.
Dairy Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service (Washington office) and the Office of the Market Administrator of the Central Milk Marketing Area
[FR Doc. 01-26593 Filed 10-22-01; 8:45 am]