AGENCY:

Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.

ACTION:

Correcting amendment.

SUMMARY:

This amendment implements corrections to typographical and miscellaneous errors in Marketing Order 989, as amended, regulating the handling of raisins produced from grapes grown in California. These changes include removing one duplicate use of the word “Committee” and standardizing several occurrences of non-hyphenated words to their hyphenated form. This document is necessary to inform the public of these non-substantive amendments to the marketing order.

DATES:

Effective July 1, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kathie Notoro, Marketing Specialist or Terry Vawter, Regional Director, California Marketing Field Office, Marketing Order and Agreement Division, Specialty Crops Program, AMS, USDA; Telephone: (559) 538-1672, Fax: (559) 487-5906, or Email: Kathie.Notoro@usda.gov or Terry.Vawter@usda.gov.

Small businesses may request information on complying with this regulation by contacting Richard Lower, Marketing Order and Agreement Division, Specialty Crops Program, AMS, USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, STOP 0237, Washington, DC 20250-0237; Telephone: (202) 720-2491, Fax: (202) 720-8938, or Email: Richard.Lower@usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This action makes corrections to Marketing Order 989, as amended, (7 CFR part 989) (referred to as the “marketing order”). The amendments will have no substantive impact and are of a minor and administrative nature dealing with deletion of a duplicate occurrence of a word and standardizing the use of hyphenation. The amendments are effective July 1, 2019. These amendments do not require action by any person or entity regulated by the marketing order.

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 989

• Grapes
• Marketing agreements
• Raisins
• Reporting and recordkeeping requirements

For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 7 CFR part 989 is corrected by making the following correcting amendments:

PART 989—RAISINS PRODUCED FROM GRAPES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA

1. The authority citation for 7 CFR part 989 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.

2. Amend § 989.62 as follows:

a. Designating the text of paragraph (b) as paragraph (b)(1);

b. Designating the undesignated text following newly designated paragraph (b)(1) as paragraph (b)(2); and

c. Removing “CommitteeCommittee” and adding in its place “Committee” in newly designated paragraph (b)(2).

3. Amend § 989.158(c)(3) by removing the word “interplant” and adding in its place “inter-plant” and removing the word “interpacker” and adding in its place “inter-packer” in the paragraph heading.

4. Amend § 989.159 as follows:

a. In paragraph (b)(1), removing “(i)” and “(ii)”;

b. Revising paragraph (g)(1);

c. Redesignating paragraphs (g)(2)(i)( a) through (f) as paragraphs (g)(2)(i)(A) through (F);

d. In newly redesignated paragraph (g)(2)(i)(B), removing the word “interpacker” and adding in its place “inter-packer;”

e. In newly redesignated paragraph (g)(2)(i)(E), removing “( 1),” “(2),” and “(3);”

c. Revising paragraph (g)(2)(ii); and

d. In paragraph (g)(2)(iv), removing “( a),” “(b),” and “(c).”

The revisions read as follows:

5. Amend § 989.173 as follows:

a. Removing the word “interhandler” and adding in its place “inter-handler” in paragraph (b)(3) introductory text and paragraph (d) heading;

b. Removing the word “nonfood” and adding in its place “non-food” in the heading of paragraph (b)(5);

c. Designating the text of paragraph (b)(5)(vi) as paragraph (b)(5)(vi)(A);

d. Designating the undesignated paragraph following newly designated paragraph (b)(5)(vi)(A) as paragraph (b)(5)(vi)(B);

e. Removing the word “nonacquiring” and adding in its place “non-acquiring” in newly designated paragraph (b)(5)(vi)(B); and

f. Removing the words “organically produced” everywhere they appear and adding in their place “organically-produced” in paragraphs (c)(1)(iii), (d)(1)(iii), and (f).