[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 29259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13587]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
Opportunity To Comment on the Applicants for the Hastings (NE)
and Missouri Areas
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
(GIPSA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: GIPSA requests comments on the applicants for designation to
provide official services in the geographic areas assigned to Hastings
Grain Inspection, Inc. (Hastings) and the Missouri Department of
Agriculture (Missouri).
DATES: Comments must be postmarked, or sent by telecopier (FAX) by June
30, 1999.
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, SW, 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 at 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, 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 April 1, 1999, Federal Register (64 FR 15724), GIPSA asked
persons interested in providing official services in the Hastings and
Missouri areas to submit an application for designation. There were two
applicants for the Hastings area: Hastings and Kansas Grain Inspection
Service, Inc. (Kansas). Hastings applied for designation to provide
official services in the entire area currently assigned to them.
Kansas, a designated official grain inspection agency operating in
Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming, applied for designation to provide
official services in the western portion of the Hastings area: Bounded
on the North by the Nebraska-South Dakota State line east to the
mountain-central time zone line;
Bounded on the East by the mountain-central time zone line south to
the Nebraska-Kansas State line;
Bounded on the South by the Nebraska-Kansas State line west to the
Nebraska-Colorado State line; and
Bounded on the West by the Nebraska-Colorado and Nebraska-Wyoming
State lines north to the Nebraska-South Dakota State line.
There were three applicants for the Missouri area: Missouri,
Kansas, and North Dakota Grain Inspection Services, Inc. (North
Dakota). Missouri applied for designation to provide official services
in the entire area currently assigned to them. Kansas applied for
designation to provide official services in the western portion of the
Missouri area: Bounded on the North by the Missouri-Iowa State line
east to Highway 65;
Bounded on the East by Highway 65 south to the Missouri-Arkansas
State line;
Bounded on the South by the Missouri-Arkansas State line west to
the Missouri-Kansas State line; and
Bounded on the West by the Missouri-Kansas State line north to the
Missouri-Iowa State line.
North Dakota, a designated official grain inspection agency
operating in Illinois as Illinois Official Grain Inspection, applied
for the eastern portion of the Missouri area: Bounded on the North by
the Missouri-Iowa State line from Highway 65 east to the Missouri-
Illinois State line;
Bounded on the East by the Missouri-Illinois State line south to
the Missouri-Kentucky State line, the Missouri-Kentucky State line
south to the Missouri-Tennessee State line, the Missouri-Tennessee
State line south to the Missouri-Arkansas State line;
Bounded on the South by the Missouri-Arkansas State line west to
Highway 65; and
Bounded on the West by Highway 65 north to the Missouri-Iowa State
line.
GIPSA is publishing this notice to provide interested persons the
opportunity to present comments concerning the applicants. Commenters
are encouraged to submit reasons and pertinent data for support or
objection to the designation of the applicants. All comments must be
submitted to the 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: May 17, 1999.
Neil E. Porter,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 99-13587 Filed 5-28-99; 8:45 am]
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