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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 92 / Friday, May 14, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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it will publish, in a timely manner, a document in the Federal Register withdrawing this direct final rule.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Pursuant to requirements set forth in the Regulatory Flexibility Act RFA 5
U.S.C. 601612, AMS considered the economic impact of this action on small entities. Accordingly, AMS prepared this regulatory flexibility analysis.
The purpose of the RFA is to fit regulatory actions to the scale of businesses that are subject to such actions so that small businesses will not be unduly or disproportionately burdened by the action. Marketing orders issued pursuant to the Act, and the rules issued thereunder, are unique in that they are brought through group action of essentially small entities acting on their own behalf.
Presently, there are approximately 22
handlers of raisins subject to regulation under the Order and approximately 2,000 raisin producers in the regulated area.
Small agricultural service firms are defined by the Small Business Administration SBA as those having annual receipts of less than $30,000,000, and small agricultural producers are defined as those having annual receipts of less than $1,000,000 13 CFR
121.201.
AMS multiplied RAC estimated shipments of 327,323 tons for the 2020
season by the average handler price of $2,000 per ton to derive total estimated annual handler receipts of $474,646,000. Dividing the total estimated handler receipts by the number of handlers 22 results in estimated average handler receipts of $21,574,818.
According to RAC estimates for the most recent year, the average raisin grower price was $1,300 per ton.
Multiplying the average grower price by total 2020 production of 211,115 tons results in $274,449,500 estimated returns to growers. Dividing estimated grower returns by the total number of growers 2,000 provides an estimated return per grower of $137,225 for the 2020 season. Thus, the majority of raisin handlers and growers may be classified as small entities according to SBA
definitions.
There are no known negative impacts or additional costs incurred by small handlers because of this action.
This rule contains no information collection or recordkeeping requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq..
AMS is committed to complying with the E-Government Act to promote the
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use of the internet and other information technologies, to provide increased opportunities for citizen access to Government information and services, and for other purposes.
USDA has not identified any relevant Federal rules that duplicate, overlap, or conflict with this final rule.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 989

Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program
Grapes, Marketing agreements, Raisins, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 7 CFR part 989 is amended as follows:
PART 989RAISINS PRODUCED
FROM GRAPES GROWN IN
CALIFORNIA
1. The authority citation for 7 CFR
part 989 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601674.

2. In 989.80, revise paragraph c to read as follows:

989.80

Assessments.

c The Secretary shall fix the rate of assessment to be paid by all handlers on the basis of a specified rate per ton. At any time during or after a crop year, the Secretary may increase the rate of assessment to obtain sufficient funds to cover any later finding by the Secretary relative to the expenses of the committee. Each handler shall pay such additional assessment to the committee upon demand. In order to provide funds to carry out the functions of the committee, the committee may accept advance payments from any handler to be credited toward such assessments as may be levied pursuant to this section against such handler during the crop year. In the event cash flow needs of the committee are above cash available generated by handler assessments, the committee may borrow from a commercial lending institution. The payment of assessments for the maintenance and functioning of the committee, and for such purposes as the Secretary may pursuant to this subpart determine to be appropriate, may be required under this part throughout the period it is in effect, irrespective of whether particular provisions thereof are suspended or become inoperative.

Erin Morris, Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
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Rural Business-Cooperative Service 7 CFR Part 4280
Docket No. RBS20BUSINESS0044
RIN 0570AB02

Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA, ACTION: Final rule; request for comments.
AGENCY:

The Rural BusinessCooperative Service RBCS or the Agency, a Rural Development RD
agency of the United States Department of Agriculture USDA or the Department, is issuing a final rule with comment for the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program RMAP or the Program. This final rule modifies the interim rule published in the Federal Register on May 28, 2010, as amended by the correcting amendments published in the Federal Register on July 19, 2010, and incorporates amendments to the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act ConAct made by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
2018 Farm Bill. The Agency is implementing other changes to make the Program run more efficiently, be more user-friendly and be more consistent with other RBCS programs.
DATES:
Effective date: This final rule is effective May 14, 2021.
Comment date: Comments due on or before July 13, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number RBS20
BUSINESS0044 and Regulatory Information Number RIN number 0570AB02 through https
www.regulations.gov.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Agency name and docket number or RIN for this rulemaking. All comments received will be posted without change to https
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to https
www.regulations.gov.
SUMMARY:

For general inquiries, contact David Chestnut, Program Management Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 202503201;

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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