§ 1046.45 - Market administrator's reports and announcements concerning classification.

The market administrator shall make the following reports and announcements concerning classification:

(a) Whenever required for the purpose of allocating receipts from other order plants pursuant to § 1046.44 (a)(12) and the corresponding step of § 1046.44(b), estimate and publicly announce the utilization (to the nearest whole percentage) in each class during the month, of skim milk and butterfat, respectively, in producer milk of all handlers. Such estimate shall be based upon the most current available data and shall be final for such purpose.

(b) Report to the market administrator of the other order, as soon as possible after the report of receipts and utilization for the month is received from a handler who has received fluid milk products or bulk fluid cream products from an other order plant, the class to which such receipts are allocated pursuant to § 1046.43(d) and § 1046.44 on the basis of such report (including any reclassification of inventories of bulk concentrated fluid milk products), and thereafter, any change in such allocation required to correct errors disclosed in the verification of such report.

(c) Furnish to each handler operating a pool plant who has shipped fluid milk products or bulk fluid cream products to an other order plant the class to which such shipments were allocated by the market administrator of the other order on the basis of the report by the receiving handler, and, as necessary, any changes in such allocation arising from the verification of such report.

(d) On or before the 15th day after the end of each month, report to each cooperative association, which so requests, with respect to milk delivered by such association or by its members to each handler during the month:

(1) The percentage of such receipts classified in each class; and (2) the percentage relationship of such receipts to the total pounds of Class I milk available to assign to such receipts exclusive of the Class I milk disposed of by such handler to the pool plant(s) of other handlers and to nonpool plants. For the purpose of these reports, the milk received from such association shall be treated on a pro rata basis of the total producer milk received by such handler during the month.