97-28744. Public Hearing Regarding Establishment of a New Tobacco Auction Market

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 56147]
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[FR Doc No: 97-28744]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service
[Docket No. TB-97-17]


Public Hearing Regarding Establishment of a New Tobacco Auction 
Market

    Notice is hereby given of a public hearing regarding an application 
to combine the Loris, South Carolina, and Tabor City-Whiteville, North 
Carolina, tobacco markets.

    Date: November 5, 1997.
    Time: 9:00 a.m. local time.
    Place: Dales Family Seafood and Steakhouse, 100 701 Bypass, 
Tabor City, North Carolina.
    Purpose: To hear testimony and to receive evidence regarding an 
application for tobacco inspection and price support services to a 
new market, which would be a consolidation of the currently 
designated markets of Loris, South Carolina, and Tabor City-
Whiteville, North Carolina. The application was made by Harvey 
Graham, Jr., and Bill G. Page, warehouse operators, Loris, South 
Carolina.
    This public hearing will be conducted pursuant to the joint 
policy statement and regulations governing the extension of tobacco 
inspection and price support services to new markets and to 
additional sales on designated markets (7 CFR 29.1 through 29.3), 
issued under the Tobacco Inspection Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 511 et 
seq.) and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, as amended 
(15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.)

    Dated: October 24, 1997.
Isi A. Siddiqui,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Marketing and Regulatory Programs.
[FR Doc. 97-28744 Filed 10-27-97; 11:20 am]
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