# Egg Research and Promotion Order; Referendum Procedures
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 2010-09-10 · Effective 2010-09-13 · 75 FR 55255
## Document
- **Document number:** 2010-22644
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 75 FR 55255
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1250
- **Publication date:** 2010-09-10
- **Effective date:** 2010-09-13
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-PY-09-0116
## Abstract

This final rule establishes procedures that the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will use in conducting a referendum to determine whether egg producers favor increasing the assessment they pay to the American Egg Board (AEB) from a rate of 10 cents per 30- dozen case of commercial eggs to 15 cents per case. An amendment to increase the assessment rate in the Egg Research and Promotion Order (Order) will be implemented if it is approved by two-thirds of the egg producers voting in the referendum or by a majority of producers voting if they produced two-thirds of the eggs produced by all voters. These procedures will also be used for subsequent referenda. AEB, which administers the Order, recommended this action to sustain and expand its national promotion, research, and consumer information program.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/09/10/2010-22644/egg-research-and-promotion-order-referendum-procedures)
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