[Federal Register: November 27, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 229)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
[02-c]
Cancellation of Mississippi's Delegation
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (Act),
provides for state agency delegations at export port locations within a
state. The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce
(Mississippi), is delegated to provide official export inspection and
weighing services. However, there are no longer any bulk grain export
port facilities in the State of Mississippi. Accordingly, GIPSA is
announcing that Mississippi's delegation is being canceled effective
December 1, 2002. This does not affect Mississippi's current
designation to provide official domestic grain inspection and weighing
services, effective January 1, 2001, through September 30, 2003.
DATES: December 1, 2002.
ADDRESSES: USDA, GIPSA, Janet M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance
Division, STOP 3604, room 1647-S, 1400 Independence Ave. SW.,
Washington, DC 20250-3604.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet M. Hart at 202-720-8525, e-mail
Janet.M.Hart@usda.gov.
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.
Section 7(e)(2) of the Act authorizes GIPSA's Administrator to
delegate authority to a qualified State agency to perform all or
specified functions involved in official inspection at export port
locations within the state. GIPSA originally delegated Mississippi,
main office in Jackson, Mississippi, under the Act on April 18, 1978.
The sole grain export port facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi, has
been razed. Therefore, Mississippi's delegation is cancelled. If any
grain export port facility were to open in the future within the State
of Mississippi, Mississippi would have the opportunity to become
delegated again.
Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C.
71 et seq.).
Dated: November 14, 2002.
David R. Shipman,
Acting Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards
Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-30048 Filed 11-26-02; 8:45 am]
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