Notice2025-18230
Mango Promotion, Research, and Information Order; Continuance Referendum
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Published
September 22, 2025
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Agriculture DepartmentAgricultural Marketing Service
Abstract
This notice directs that a referendum be conducted among eligible first handlers and importers of mangos to determine whether they favor continuance of the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) regulations regarding a national mango research and promotion program.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 181 (Monday, September 22, 2025)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18230]
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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 181 / Monday, September 22, 2025 /
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Document No. AMS-SC-25-0009]
Mango Promotion, Research, and Information Order; Continuance
Referendum
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice directs that a referendum be conducted among
eligible first handlers and importers of mangos to determine whether
they favor continuance of the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS)
regulations regarding a national mango research and promotion program.
DATES: This referendum will be conducted by express mail and electronic
ballot from October 22, 2025 through November 12, 2025. Ballots
delivered to AMS via express mail or electronic ballot must show proof
of delivery by no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on November 12,
2025. Eligible persons will receive a ballot through the mail and may
cast it either through express mail or electronic ballot. Each person
who is an eligible first handler or importer at the time of the
referendum and during the representative period from January 1, 2024,
through December 31, 2024, shall be entitled to cast a ballot in the
referendum.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Mango Promotion, Research and Information
Order (Order) may be obtained from: Referendum Agent, Market
Development Division, Specialty Crops Program, AMS, USDA, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Room 1406-S, Stop 0244, Washington, DC 20250-
0244, telephone: (202) 720-8085 or contact George Webster via
electronic mail: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#df98bab0adb8baf188babdacabbaad9faaacbbbef1b8b0a9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81c6e4eef3e6e4afd6e4e3f2f5e4f3c1f4f2e5e0afe6eef7">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Webster, Marketing Specialist,
or Alexandra Caryl, Branch Chief, Mid-Atlantic Region Branch, Market
Development Division, Specialty Crops Program; telephone (202) 720-8085
or email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bafddfd5c8dddf94eddfd8c9cedfc8facfc9dedb94ddd5cc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8fc8eae0fde8eaa1d8eaedfcfbeafdcffafcebeea1e8e0f9">[email protected]</span></a> or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#33725f564b525d5741521d7052414a5f73464057521d545c45"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7a3b161f021b141e081b54391b0803163a0f091e1b541d150c">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Commodity Promotion,
Research, and Information Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7411-7425) (Act), it is
hereby directed that a referendum be conducted to ascertain whether
continuance of the Mango Promotion, Research and Information Order
(Order) (7 CFR part 1206) is favored by a majority of eligible first
handlers and importers covered under the program.
The representative period for establishing voter eligibility is
January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024. First handlers who received
500,000 or more pounds of fresh mangos from producers and importers who
imported 500,000 or more pounds of fresh mangos into the United States
during the representative period are eligible to vote. Persons who
received an exemption from assessments pursuant to Sec. Sec. 1206.43
and 1206.202 for the entire representative period are ineligible to
vote. The referendum will be conducted by express mail and electronic
ballot from October 22, 2025 through November 12, 2025. Further details
will be provided in the ballot instructions.
Section 518 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 7417) authorizes continuance
referenda. Under Sec. 1206.71(b) of the Order, USDA must conduct a
referendum every five years, at the request of 10 percent or more of
the number of persons eligible to vote in a referendum, or at any time
as determined by the Secretary. The program's last continuance
referendum was conducted in 2020; therefore, a referendum must be held
in 2025 to comply with the Order.
USDA would continue the Order if it is favored by a majority of
first handlers and importers voting in the referendum. If not favored,
USDA would comply with the termination procedures at Sec. 1206.73 and
conduct rulemaking to remove provisions of the Order.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35), the referendum ballot has been approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) and assigned OMB No. 0581-0093.
Approximately 110 entities will be eligible to vote in the referendum.
It will take an average of 15 minutes for each voter to read the voting
instructions and complete the referendum ballot.
Referendum Order
George Webster, Marketing Specialist, and Alexandra Caryl, Branch
Chief, Mid-Atlantic Region Branch, Market Development Division, SCP,
AMS, USDA, Stop 0244, Room 1406-S, 1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250-0244, are designated as the referendum agents to
conduct this referendum. The referendum procedures at Sec. Sec.
1206.100 through 1206.108 of the Order, which were issued pursuant to
the Act, shall be used to conduct the referendum.
The referendum agents will express mail ballots and voting
instructions, including how to vote electronically, to all known,
eligible first handlers and importers prior to the first day of the
voting period. Any eligible first handler or importer who does not
receive a ballot should contact a referendum agent no later than three
days before the end of the voting period. Ballots delivered via express
mail or electronic ballot must show proof of delivery by no later than
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on November 12, 2025.
(Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7411-7425; 7 U.S.C. 7401.)
Erin Morris,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-18230 Filed 9-19-25; 8:45 am]
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