§ 1134.71 - Payments to the producer-settlement fund.

(a) On or before the 13th day after the end of the month, each handler shall pay to the market administrator the amount, if any, by which the total amount specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section exceeds the amount specified in paragraph (a)(2) of this section:

(1) The total value of milk of the handler for such month as determined pursuant to § 1134.60.

(2) The sum of:

(i) The value at the uniform price, as adjusted pursuant to § 1134.75, of such handler's receipts of producer milk and milk subject to the provisions of § 1134.42(e). In the case of a cooperative association which is a handler, less the amount due from other handlers pursuant to § 1134.73(a), exclusive of differential butterfat values; and

(ii) The value at the uniform price applicable at the location of the plant from which received (not to be less than the Class III price) of other source milk for which a value is computed pursuant to § 1134.60(f).

(b) On or before the 25th day after the end of the month each person who operated an order plant that was regulated during such month under an order providing for individual-handler pooling shall pay to the market administrator an amount computed as follows:

(1) Determine the quantity of reconstituted skim milk in filled milk in route disposition from such plant in the marketing area which was allocated to Class I at such plant. If there is such route disposition from such plant in marketing areas regulated by two or more marketwide pool orders, the reconstituted skim milk allocated to Class I shall be prorated to each order according to such route disposition in each marketing area; and

(2) Compute the value of the reconstituted skim milk assigned in paragraph (b)(1) of this section to route disposition in this marketing area by multiplying the quantity of such skim milk by the difference between the Class I price under this part that is applicable to the location of the other order plant (but not to be less than the Class III price) and the Class III price.

(c) Each vendor shall pay the market administrator on or before the 25th day after the end of the month at the difference between the value of the skim milk and butterfat in fluid milk products received from a producer-handler during the month at the Class I price applicable at the location of the producer-handler's plant (but not less than the Class III price) and its value at the Class III price subject to the following conditions:

(1) The quantities of skim and butterfat milk products on which payment shall be made pursuant to this section shall not exceed the vendor's Class Idisposition in the marketing during the month; and

(2) This section shall not apply to a vendor whose total Class I disposition is obtained from a producer-handler, or whose total receipts and disposition of fluid milk products are considered as a part of the receipts and disposition of the producer-handler pursuant to § 1134.10(b)(3).