Milk in the Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee Valley, and Louisville- Lexington-Evansville Marketing Areas; Revised Proposed Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Orders

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This document invites written comments on a proposal that would suspend for nearly two years certain provisions of the Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee Valley, and Louisville-Lexington-Evansville Federal milk orders. If adopted, the proposal would regulate a plant at Kingsport, Tennessee, under the Tennessee Valley order, instead of the Carolina order, and it would keep regulated under the Tennessee Valley order a plant at Somerset, Kentucky, that otherwise might become regulated under the Louisville-Lexington-Evansville order. The proposals were submitted by Land-O-Sun Dairies, which operates the Kingsport, Tennessee, plant, and Southern Bell Dairy, Inc., which operates the Somerset, Kentucky, plant. These handlers contend that without the suspension they would be subject to pricing disparities that could jeopardize their business.