Rule2024-10162
Dairy Margin Coverage Production History Adjustment and Program Extension; Correction
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Published
May 9, 2024
Effective
May 9, 2024
Issuing agencies
Agriculture DepartmentCommodity Credit Corporation
Abstract
CCC and FSA are making a technical correction to the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) regulations published on February 27, 2024. The technical correction will apply to the 2024 DMC coverage election period to allow dairy operations that dissolved prior to or during the 2024 DMC coverage election period the opportunity to enroll in 2024 DMC for the days they marketed milk in the 2024 calendar year.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 91 (Thursday, May 9, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 39539-39540]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10162]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Commodity Credit Corporation
7 CFR Part 1430
RIN 0560-AI66
[Docket No. FSA-2024-0001]
Dairy Margin Coverage Production History Adjustment and Program
Extension; Correction
AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and Farm Service Agency
(FSA), Department of Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Final rule; technical correction.
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SUMMARY: CCC and FSA are making a technical correction to the Dairy
Margin Coverage (DMC) regulations published on February 27, 2024. The
technical correction will apply to the 2024 DMC coverage election
period to allow dairy operations that dissolved prior to or during the
2024 DMC coverage election period the opportunity to enroll in 2024 DMC
for the days they marketed milk in the 2024 calendar year.
DATES:
Effective: May 9, 2024.
Application deadline for dissolved dairies to apply for DMC: May
23, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Douglas Kilgore; telephone: (717) 887-
0963; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c1a5aeb4a6ada0b2efa4efaaa8ada6aeb3a481b4b2a5a0efa6aeb7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ffbf0eaf8f3feecb1fab1f4f6f3f8f0edfadfeaecfbfeb1f8f0e9">[email protected]</span></a>. Individuals who require
alternative means of communication should contact the USDA TARGET
Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and text telephone (TTY)) or dial 711
for Telecommunications Relay Service (both voice and text telephone
users can initiate this call from any telephone).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Correction
FSA announced changes made to DMC in a final rule on February 27,
2024 (89 FR 14372-14376). FSA inadvertently omitted a modification in 7
CFR 1430.403 to allow dairy operations that dissolved in the 2024
calendar year prior to or during the 2024 DMC coverage election period,
the opportunity to enroll in 2024 DMC for the days the dairy operations
were still in business and commercially marketing milk.
This technical correction amends the DMC regulation in 7 CFR
1430.403(a)(1) by inserting ``and 2024'' to address the unintentional
exclusion of dairy operations that dissolved and stopped commercially
marketing milk in the 2024 calendar year at any time before or during
the DMC 2024 enrollment period that began on February 2, 2024, and ends
on April 29, 2024.
Under the February 27, 2024, final rule, to be approved for
enrollment in DMC, participating dairy operations must certify that
they are commercially marketing milk at the time of application for
DMC. Most DMC annual enrollment periods occur before the start of the
coverage year. However, DMC changes authorized by the Further
Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024 (Pub. L. 118-
22) required that a regulatory amendment to DMC be published before the
coverage election period for 2024 could begin. As a result, some dairy
operations that were marketing milk early in 2024, but then dissolved,
were not eligible for 2024 DMC for the days they marketed milk in 2024.
The technical correction to the rule is consistent with how
dissolved dairy operations were treated during coverage election
periods that did not begin before the start of the applicable DMC
coverage year in the past. For example, in 2019, when the 2019 DMC
coverage election period was delayed until mid-year, provisions were
provided in the rule to allow dairy operations that dissolved in the
2019 calendar year prior to or during the 2019 coverage election period
the opportunity to enroll in 2019 DMC and receive benefits for the days
they were commercially marketing milk. This technical correction
provides dissolved dairy operations the opportunity to enroll in 2024
DMC under provisions consistent with 2019 DMC implementation. This is
also consistent with the Congressional intention that DMC be available
to eligible dairy operations as of the start of the 2024 calendar year,
as illustrated by section 102(g) of Title I of Division B of the
Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024, which
provides for the extension of DMC, among other provisions, to be
effective as of September 30, 2023.
To enroll, you must send your application for 2024 DMC to the
administrative county FSA office serving the dairy operation.
Participating dairy operations that dissolved in the 2024 calendar year
prior to or during the 2024 DMC coverage election period may apply for
DMC. The deadline for dissolved dairies to apply for DMC is May 23,
2024. This application is to enroll in 2024 DMC for the days the
dissolved dairy operation was still in business and commercially
marketing milk.
USDA Non-Discrimination Policy
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and USDA civil rights
regulations and policies, USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees,
and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are
prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin,
religion, sex, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual
orientation, disability, age, marital status, family or parental
status, income derived from a public assistance program, political
beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, in
any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA (not all bases
apply to all programs). Remedies and complaint filing deadlines vary by
program or incident.
Individuals who require alternative means of communication for
program information (for example, braille, large print, audiotape,
American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible Agency or
USDA TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and text telephone (TTY))
or dial 711 for Telecommunications Relay Service (both voice and text
telephone users can initiate this call from any telephone).
Additionally, program information may be made available in languages
other than English.
To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the USDA
Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online at <a href="https://www.usda.gov/oascr/how-to-file-a-program-discrimination-complaint">https://www.usda.gov/oascr/how-to-file-a-program-discrimination-complaint</a> and
at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in
the letter all the information requested in the form. To request a copy
of the
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complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or
letter to USDA by: (1) mail to: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue
SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410; (2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c0b0b2afa7b2a1adeea9aeb4a1aba580b5b3a4a1eea7afb6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ccbcbea3abbeada1e2a5a2b8ada7a98cb9bfa8ade2aba3ba">[email protected]</span></a>.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.
List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 1430
Dairy products, Fraud, Penalties, Price support programs, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements.
For the reasons discussed above, CCC amends 7 CFR part 1430 as
follows:
PART 1430--DAIRY PRODUCTS
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1. The authority citation for part 1430 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 9051-9060 and 9071 and 15 U.S.C. 714b and
714c.
Subpart D--Dairy Margin Coverage Program
Sec. 1430.403 [Amended]
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2. In Sec. 1430.403, amend paragraph (a)(1) by removing the year
``2019'' and adding ``2019 and 2024'' in its place.
Zach Ducheneaux,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency, and Executive Vice President,
Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 2024-10162 Filed 5-8-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-E2-P
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