§ 1046.52 - Plant location adjustments for handlers.

(a) For milk received from producers or from a handler described in § 1046.9(c) at a plant and which is classified as Class I milk subject to the limitations pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section, the Class I price shall be adjusted as follows:

(1) For such milk that is physically received at plants located in the Kentucky counties of Bell, Breathitt, Caldwell, Christian, Clay, Harlan, Hopkins, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, Letcher, Logan, Lyon, McCreary, Muhlenberg, Perry, Pulaski, Todd, Trigg and Whitley, the Class I price shall be increased by a location adjustment of 15 cents;

(2) For such milk that is physically received at plants located in the Kentucky counties of Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Marshall and McCracken and the Missouri counties of Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and Scott, the Class I price shall be increased by a location adjustment of 28 cents;

(3) For such milk that is physically received at plants located east of the Mississippi River and south of the northern boundary of Tennessee or the northern boundary of North Carolina, the Class I price shall be increased by a location adjustment of 41 cents;

(4) For such milk that is physically received at plants located in the marketing area or the state of Kentucky and outside the areas specified in paragraph (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, no location adjustment shall apply; and

(5) For such milk that is physically received at plants located outside the areas specified in paragraph (a)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section, and 85 miles or more from the City Halls in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana, by the shortest hard-surfaced highway distance as determined by the market administrator, the Class I price shall be reduced by a location adjustment of 2.5 cents for each 10 miles or fraction thereof that such plant is from the City Hall in Louisville, Lexington, or Evansville, whichever is nearest.

(b) For purposes of calculating such adjustment, transfers between pool plants shall be assigned to that Class I disposition at the transferee-plant which is in excess of the sum of receipts at such plant from producers and handlers described in § 1046.9(c), and the volume assigned as Class I to receipts from other order plants and unregulated supply plants, such assignment to be made first to transferor-plants at which no location adjustment credit is applicable and then in sequence beginning with the plant at which the least location adjustment would apply.

(c) The Class I price applicable to other source milk shall be adjusted at the rates set forth in paragraph (a) of this section, except that the adjusted Class I price shall not be less than the Class III price.