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Tuesday, August 1, 1950
order for an employers contributions to a welfare plan to qualify for exclusion from the regular rate. To date, no regu lations have been issued with respect to bona fide thrift or savings plans pro vided for in section 7 d 3 b.
The experience of the Wage and Hour Division in the application of the above regulations and Interpretative Bulletin since their issuance, has indicated the need for a review and reexamination of the provisions thereof, with a view to possible revisions or amendments. Fur thermore, it appears necessary to add to regulations, Part 549, appropriate pro visions dealing with bona fide thrift or savings plans. In considering such pos sible revisions or amendments and the formulation of additional regulations, the Administrator desires to have the benefit of the views of any interested persons.
Accordingly, notice is hereby given of a public hearing to be held before an authorized representative of the Admin istrator beginning on Wednesday, Sep tember 6, 1950 at 10 a. m., in the Inter departmental Auditorium, Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets, NW., Washington, D. C., at which in terested persons will be heard on the following questions:
1. What, if any, changes should be made in the regulations Part 549, de fining and delimiting the term bona fide profit-sharing plan or trust, pur suant to section 7 d 3 b of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended?
2. What provisions relating to bona fide thrift or savings plans, as used in section 7 d 3 b of the act, should be adopted by the Administrator?
3. What revisions should be made by the Administrator in 778.6 g of In terpretative Bulletin, Part 778, dealing with the conditions required for the ex clusion of an employers contributions to a welfare plan from the regular rate under section 7 d 4 of the act?
All persons desiring to be heard at the aforesaid public hearing should notify the Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor, Washington 25, D. C., not later than August 24, 1950, which notification should contain the following informa tion:
1. Name and address of the person who will appear.
2. If such person will appear in a rep resentative capacity, the name and ad dress of the persons or organizations he will represent.
3. The particular question or questions concerning which he intends to make a presentation at the hearing.
4. The approximate length of time requested for his presentation.
Written statements may be filed in lieu of personal appearances at any time be fore the date of the hearing.
Signed at Washington, D. C., this 26th day of July 1950.
Wm. R. McComb,
Administrator, Wage and Hour Division.
F. R. Doc. 50-6671; Filed, Ju ly 31, 1950;
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FEDERAL REGISTER

4917

DEPARTMENT O F AGRICULTURE
Production and Marketing Administration
17 CFR, Part 52 1
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S . S tandards for G rades G rape J tjice 1

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NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING

Notice is hereby given that the United States Department of Agriculture is con sidering the revision, as herein proposed, of the current United States Standards for Grades of Canned or Bottled Grape Juice, pursuant to the authority con tained in the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 60 Stat. 1087; 7 U. S. C. 1621
et seq. and Pub. Law 585, 81st Cong., approved June 29, 1950. This revision, if made effective, will be the second issue by the Department of grade standards for this product.
All persons who desire to submit writ ten data, views, or arguments for consid eration in connection with the proposed revision should file the same, in dupli cate, with the Chief, Processed Products Standardization and Inspection Division, Fruit and Vegetable Branch, Production and Marketing Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, Wash ington 25, D. C., not later than 30 days after publication hereof in the F ederal R egister .

The proposed revision is as follows:
52.378 Canned grape juice. Canned grape juice is the unfermented liquid obtained from the properly matured fresh grapes of the Concord type. Such grape juice is prepared without any con centration, without dilution, is packed with or without the addition of sweeten ing ingredients, and is sufficiently proc essed by heat to assure preservation of the product in hermetically sealed con tainers either metal or glass.
a Types of canned grape juice. Un less specifically designated as sweet ened, canned grape juice is considered as unsweetened.
1 Type I, Unsweetened without added sweetening ingredient or in gredients.
2 Type II, Sweetened with added sweetening ingredient or ingredients.
b Grades of canned grape juice. 1
U. S. Grade A or U. S. Fancy is the quality of canned grape juice that is prepared by removal of tartrate crystals;
th at possesses a good color; that is prac tically free from defects; that possesses a good flavor; and that scores not less than 90 points when scored in accord ance with the scoring system outlined in this section.
2 U. S. Grade B or U. S. Choice is the quality of canned grape juice that is prepared by removal of tartrate crys tals; that possesses a reasonably good color; that is reasonably free from de fects; that possesses a reasonably good flavor; and that scores not less than 80
points when scored in accordance with 1 T he req u irem en ts o f th e se standards sh a ll n o t excuse failu re t o com ply w ith th e p rovi sio n s o f th e Federal Food, Drug, an d Cos m etic Act.

the scoring system outlined in this sec tion.
3 U. S. Grade C or U. S. Stand ard is the quality of canned grape juice th at is prepared with or without the re moval of tartrate crystals; that possesses a fairly good color; th at is fairly free from defects; that possesses a fairly good flavor; and that scores not less than 70
points when scored in accordance with the scoring system outlined in this sec tion.
4 U. S. Grade D or Substandard is the quality of canned grape juice that fails to meet the requirements of U. S.
Grade C or U. S. Standard.
c Recommended fill of container.
The recommended fill of container is not incorporated in the grades of the finished product since fill of container, as such, is not a factor of quality for the purposes of these grades. It is recommended th at each container be filled as full as prac ticable with grape juice and th at the product occupy not less than 90 percent of the volume of the container.
d Ascertaining the grade. 1 The grade of canned grape juice may be as certained by considering, in conjunction with the requirements of the respective grade, the respective ratings for the fac tors of color, absence of defects, and flavor. The relative importance of each factor which is scored is expressed nu merically on the scale of 100. The maxi mum number of points that may be given such factors are:
F actors :
P o in ts i Color_;___________________________ 40
11 A bsence of d efects________________ 20
ill Flavor________
40
T otal score_______

100

e Ascertaining the rating for the factors which are scored. The essential variations within each factor are so de scribed that the value may be ascer tained for each factor and expressed numerically.
The numerical range within each factor which is scored is in clusive for example, 17 to 20 points means 17,18,19, or 20 points.
1 Color, i Canned grape juice that possesses a good Color may be given a score of 36 to 40 points. Good color means a clear and bright purple color typical of freshly pressed grape juice.
ii If the canned grape juice pos sesses a reasonably good color, a score of 32 to 35 points may be given. Canned grape juice that falls into this classifica tion shall not be graded above U. S.
Grade B or U. S. Choice, regardless of the total score for the product this is a limiting rule. Reasonably good color means a purple color typical of canned grape juice, which color may be slightly dull or bluish-purple.
iii If the canned grape juice pos sesses a fairly good color, a score of 28
to 31 points may be given. Canned grape juice that falls into this classification shall not be graded above U. S. Grade C
or U. S. Standard, regardless of the total score for the product this is a limiting rule. Fairly good color means a typi cal purple color that may be dull but not off color.
iv Canned grape juice th at fails to meet the requirements of subdivision