§ 911.55 - Prorate bases.

(a) Each person who desires to handle limes shall submit to the committee, at such time and in such manner as may be designated by the committee, and upon forms made available by it, a written application for a prorate base and for allotments as provided in this section and § 911.56.

(b) Such application shall be substantiated in such manner and shall be supported by such information as the committee may require.

(c) The committee shall determine the accuracy of the information submitted pursuant to this section. Whenever the committee finds that there is an error, omission, or inaccuracy in any such information, it shall correct the same and shall give the person who submitted the information a reasonable opportunity to discuss with the committee the factors considered in making the correction.

(d) Each week during the regulatory period when volume regulation is likely to be recommended for the following week, the committee shall compute a prorate base for each handler who has made application in accordance with the provisions of this section. The prorate base for each such handler shall be computed by adding together the handler's shipments of limes in the current season and his shipments in the immediately preceding seasons, if any, within the representative period, in which he shipped limes and dividing such total by a divisor computed by adding together the number of weeks elapsed in the current season and eighteen weeks for each of such immediately preceding seasons within the representative period in which the handler shipped limes. For purposes of this section “shipments” shall include only those limes which were shipped to destinations within the forty-eight contiguous States of the United States, the District of Columbia and Canada; “representative period” means the two preceding seasons together with the current season; the term “season” means the eighteen-week period beginning with the week preceding the first full week in May of any fiscal year; and the term “current season” means the period beginning with the week preceding the first full week in May of the current fiscal year through the fourth full week preceding the week of regulation: Provided, That when official shipping records are available to the committee he said “current season” shall extend through the third full week preceding the week of regulation.