The Chief may grant equitable relief to any participant that NRCS determines is not in compliance with the requirements, terms and conditions of a covered program, and therefore ineligible for a payment, or other benefit, if the participant— (a) Acting in good faith, relied on action and advice from an NRCS employee or representative of USDA to their detriment; (b) Did not know or have sufficient reason

(a) Standard guarantee plan. For the standard guarantee plan, the value of real estate to be purchased will be established by an appraisal obtained at Agency expense and completed as specified in §761.7 of this chapter. An appraisal is required prior to, or as a condition of, approval of the guarantee.

(a) Purpose. This part describes the Agency's policies for making direct FLP loans. (b) Types of loans. The Agency makes the following types of loans: (1) FO, including ML and Downpayment loans; (2) OL, including ML and Youth loans; (3) EM; and

(a) In the event that Canada eliminates the requirement for end-use certificates on imports from the U.S., the provisions of the regulations in this part shall be suspended 30 calendar days following the date Canada eliminates its end-use certificate requirement, as determined by the Secretary. (b) The provisions of the regulations in this part may be suspended if the Secretary, after consulting with domestic producers, determines that

rejected for official use, or (2) is not functioning in an approved manner, or (3) is not producing results that are accurate within prescribed tolerances, or (4) is producing results that are otherwise not consistent with the objectives of the Act.

Upon request by a licensee, the Service may cancel a license or suspend a license for a period of time not to exceed 1 year. A license that has been voluntarily suspended shall be returned by the Service upon request by the licensee within 1 year, subject to the provisions of §868.81(a) and (b); a license that has been cancelled shall be considered void and shall not be

regard to nominations, which selection shall be made on the basis of representation provided for in §§906.20 through 906.22, inclusive.

(a) The establishment of a reserve fund at an amount not to exceed approximately 3 fiscal years' operational expenses is appropriate and necessary to the maintenance and functioning of the Avocado Administrative Committee. Such reserve, including funds carried forward from prior fiscal years, shall be used to provide for the maintenance and functioning of the committee in accordance with the provisions of the marketing agreement, as amended, and this part.

(a) The establishment of a reserve fund of an amount which shall not exceed approximately 1 fiscal year's operational expenses is appropriate and necessary to the maintenance and functioning of the Washington Cherry Marketing Committee. The committee is authorized to expend any funds in such reserve for expenses authorized pursuant to §923.42.

Each handler shall maintain such records of olives acquired, held, and disposed of by such handler as may be prescribed by the committee and needed by it to perform its functions under this subpart. Such records shall be retained for at least two years beyond the crop year in which the transaction occurred. The committee, with the approval of the Secretary, may prescribe rules and regulations to include under this section handler records that detail advertising and

Any handler whose packing facilities are located in an area where a Washington State Department of Agriculture, Plant Industry Division Office or Federal-State Inspector is not readily available to perform the inspection required by this part may, pursuant to §946.60(a), apply to the committee for a permit authorizing modification of inspection requirements. Applications

Pursuant to §948.10, the fiscal periods for each area shall be as follows: (a) Area No. 1 and Area No. 3 shall begin July 1 and end June 30, of the following year, both dates inclusive; (b) Area No. 2 shall begin September 1 and end August 31, of the following year, both dates inclusive. The 1986-87 fiscal

) merchantable hazelnuts on which the restricted obligation has not been met; (c) the merchantable equivalent of any hazelnuts intended for handling as inshell hazelnuts; and (d) restricted hazelnuts withheld. [46 FR 26040, May 11, 1981]

Handle means to engage in: (a) Receiving pistachios; (b) Hulling and drying pistachios; (c) Further preparing pistachios by sorting, sizing, shelling, roasting, cleaning, salting, and/or packaging for marketing in or transporting to any and all markets in the current of interstate or foreign commerce; and/or

The term of office for members and alternate members shall be three years beginning August 1, except that such term may be shorter if the Committee composition is changed in the interim pursuant to §987.21. Provided, That the terms of office of all members and alternates currently serving at the time of the amendment will end on

First handler means any person (excluding a common or contract carrier) receiving fresh mangos from producers in a calendar year and who as owner, agent, or otherwise ships or causes mangos to be shipped as specified in this Order. This definition includes those engaged in the business of buying, selling and/or offering for sale; receiving; packing; grading; marketing; or distributing mangos in commercial quantities. The term

, use, nutritional attributes, and care of mangos; and (b) Industry information, which means information and programs that will lead to the development of new markets, new marketing strategies, or increased efficiency for the mango industry, and activities to enhance the image of the mango industry.

and honey products; and (b) Industry information, which means information and programs that will lead to the development of new markets, new marketing strategies, or increased efficiency for the honey industry, and activities to enhance the image of the honey industry.

The Board may not engage in, and shall prohibit the employees and agents of the Board from engaging in: (a) Any action that would be a conflict of interest; (b) Using funds collected by the Board under the Order to undertake any action for the purpose of influencing legislation or governmental action or policy, including local, state, national, and international, other than recommending to the Secretary

The term first purchaser means— (a) except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, any person buying or otherwise acquiring from a producer soybeans produced by such producer; or (b) In any case in which soybeans are pledged as collateral for a loan issued under any Commodity Credit Corporation price support loan program and the soybeans are forfeited by the

shall include: (a) Name and complete address of the collecting handler; (b) Name of individual(s) responsible for filing reports with the Egg Board; and (c) Type of reporting period desired.

(a) The DMA is responsible for servicing MALs and are required to take the following actions: (1) Send the producer a maturity notice letter before MAL maturity. (2) Maintain the MAL or LDP documents according to FSA requirements. (3) Transmit the necessary funds to repay the MAL to FSA. (b) FSA will process the CCC release of paper

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, a person or legal entity applying for participation may appeal or request reconsideration of an adverse determination in accordance with the administrative appeal regulations at parts 11 and 780 of this title. (b) Determinations by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, or other authorized technical

recommendations for awards to the Chief, who makes final selections. (d) The NRCS National Headquarters makes a grant or cooperative agreement award after the Chief selects a grantee and the grantee agrees to the terms and conditions of the NRCS grant or cooperative agreement document.

(a) A producer adversely affected by a determination with respect to their application for trade adjustment assistance under §1580.301 of this part or with respect to the receipt of technical assistance or payments under §1580.302 of this part may file a notice of appeal

, satisfactory to the Administrator, of the borrower's ownership of the toll line facilities before loan funds for improvement of those facilities will be advanced. [54 FR 14626, Apr. 12, 1989. Redesignated at 55 FR 39395, Sept. 27, 1990]

For purposes of determining whether a rural development investment is within the limits of the borrower's maximum investment ratio or the minimum total assets ratio, the amount of the qualified investment shall be the total amount of funds committed to the rural development project as of the date of determination. The total amount of funds committed to the rural development project includes: (a) The principal amount of loans and

(a) This subpart implements and explains the provisions of the Loan Documents containing the requirements and procedures to be followed by borrowers for minor construction of telecommunications facilities using RUS loan funds. Terms used in this subpart are defined in §1753.2. (b) [Reserved]