Pistachios Grown in California, Arizona, and New Mexico; Increased Assessment Rate

Docket Number: AMS-FV-15-0038

Effective: February 29, 2016

 

This rule implements a recommendation from the Administrative Committee for Pistachios (Committee) for an increase of the assessment rate established for the 2015-16 and subsequent production years from $0.0005 to $0.0035 per pound of assessed weight pistachios handled under the marketing order for pistachios grown in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. The Committee locally administers the order and is comprised of producers and handlers of pistachios operating within the area of production. Assessments upon pistachio handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The production year begins on September 1 and ends August 31. The assessment rate would remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

 

Peter Sommers, Marketing Specialist or Jeffrey Smutney, Regional Director

California Marketing Field Office, Marketing Order and Agreement Division

Specialty Crops Program, AMS, USDA

Telephone: (559) 487-5901

Fax: (559) 487-5906

Email: PeterR.Sommers@ams.usda.gov or Jeffrey.Smutney@ams.usda.gov.