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OGC-97-49 1 (1997-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablqx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-277128 May 30, 1997 The Honorable Richard G. Lugar Chairman The Honorable Tom Harkin Ranking Minority Member Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate The Honorable Bob Smith Chairman The Honorable Charles W. Stenholm Ranking Minority Member Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives Subject: Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency: Amendments to the Peanut Poundage Quota Regulations Pursuant to section 801(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency (FSA), entitled Amendments to the Peanut Poundage Quota Regulations (RIN: 0560-AE82). We received the rule on May 6, 1997. It was published in the Federal Register as a final rule on May 9, 1997. 62 Fed. Reg. 25433. When FSA submitted the rule to us it classified it as a non-major rule; we only recently identified it as a major rule. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agrees with that classification; it determined that this final rule was a major rule on April 28, 1997. The rule implements the provisions of the Agricultural Market Transition Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. § 7271) regarding the federal farm peanut poundage quotas for the 1996 through 2002 crops of peanuts. The amendments adopted in this final rule principally involve: (1) eliminating the national poundage quota floor; (2) eliminating the undermarketing carryover provisions; (3) establishing temporary seed quota allocations; (4) establishing the GAO/OGC-97-49

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