Milk in the Central Marketing Area; Decision on Proposed Amendments to Marketing Agreement and to Order

요약

This document proposes to adopt as a final rule, order language contained in the interim final rule published in the Federal Register on February 12, 2003, concerning pooling provisions of the Central Federal milk order. It sets forth the decision of the Secretary and is subject to approval by producers. Specifically, this final decision would continue to amend the Pool plant provisions which: establish lower but year-round supply plant performance standards; would not consider the volume of milk shipments to distributing plants regulated by another Federal milk order as a qualifying shipment on the Central order; exclude from receipts diverted milk made by a pool plant to another pool plant in determining pool plant diversion limits; and establish a "net shipments" provision for milk deliveries to distributing plants. For Producer milk, this final decision would continue to adopt amendments which: establish higher year-round diversion limits; would base diversion limits for supply plants on deliveries to Central order distributing plants; and eliminate the ability to simultaneously pool milk on the Central order and a State- operated milk order that has marketwide pooling.