[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 212 (Monday, November 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59340-59341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28850]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
Opportunity to Comment on the Applicant for the Northeast Indiana
(IN) Region.
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
(GIPSA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: GIPSA requests comments on the applicant for designation to
provide official services in part of the geographic area currently
assigned to East Indiana Grain Inspection, Inc. (East Indiana).
DATES: Comments must be postmarked, or sent by telecopier (FAX) by
December 2, 1997.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted in writing to USDA, GIPSA, Janet
M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance Division, STOP 3604, Room
1647-S, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-3604.
Telecopier (FAX) users may send comments to the automatic telecopier
machine at 202-690-2755, attention: Janet M. Hart. All comments
received will be made available for public inspection at the above
address located at 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., during regular
business hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet M. Hart, telephone 202-720-8525.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This action has been reviewed and determined
not to be a rule or regulation as defined in Executive Order 12866 and
Departmental Regulation 1512-1; therefore, the Executive Order and
Departmental Regulation do not apply to this action.
In the August 21, 1997, Federal Register (62 FR 44439), GIPSA asked
persons interested in providing official services in the Northeast
Indiana area, currently assigned to East Indiana, to submit an
application for designation. There was one applicant: Northeast Indiana
Grain Inspection, Inc., a proposed organization to be established by
Steve Walker to be located at Hoagland, Indiana, applied for
designation to provide official services in the Northeast Indiana
region. The Northeast Indiana region consists of the following
geographic area, in the State of Indiana:
Bounded on the North by the northern Lagrange and Steuben County
lines;
Bounded on the East by the eastern Steuben, De Kalb, Allen, and
Adams, County lines;
Bounded on the South by the southern Adams and Wells County lines;
and
Bounded on the West by the western Wells County line; the southern
Huntington and Wabash County lines; the western Wabash County line
north to State Route 114; State Route 114 northwest to State Route 19;
State Route 19 north to Kosciusko County; the western and northern
Kosciusko County lines; the western Noble and Lagrange County lines.
The following grain elevator, located outside of the above
contiguous geographic area, is part of this geographic area assignment:
E. M. P. Grain, Payne, Paulding County, Ohio (located inside Lima Grain
Inspection Service, Inc.'s, area).
GIPSA is publishing this notice to provide interested persons the
opportunity to present comments concerning the applicant. Commenters
are encouraged to submit reasons and pertinent data for support or
objection to the designation of this applicant. All comments must be
submitted to the
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Compliance Division at the above address. Comments and other available
information will be considered in making a final decision. GIPSA will
publish notice of the final decision in the Federal Register, and GIPSA
will send the applicants written notification of the decision.
Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C.
71 et seq.).
Dated: October 24, 1997.
Neil E. Porter,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 97-28850 Filed 10-31-97; 8:45 am]
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