Milk in the Central Marketing Area; Tentative Decision on Proposed Amendments and Opportunity To File Written Exceptions to Tentative Marketing Agreement and to Order

Resumo

This tentative decision adopts, on an interim final and emergency basis, provisions that amend certain features of the pooling standards of the Central Federal milk order. Specifically, this tentative decision adopts amendments to the Pool plant provisions which: Establish lower but year-round supply plant performance standards; will 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. This decision recommends adopting provisions to limit supply plant system formation, but not on an emergency basis. For Producer milk, this tentative decision adopts amendments that: Establish higher year-round diversion limits; will base diversion limits for supply plants on deliveries to Central order distributing plants; and eliminate the ability to simultaneously pool milk on the Central milk order and a State-operated milk order that has marketwide pooling. Public comments on these actions and