# Tomatoes Grown in Florida; Increased Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 2012-07-26 · Effective 2012-07-27 · 77 FR 43709
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-18317
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 43709
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 966
- **Publication date:** 2012-07-26
- **Effective date:** 2012-07-27
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-FV-11-0080
## Abstract

This rule increases the assessment rate established for the Florida Tomato Committee (Committee) for the 2011-12 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.0275 to $0.037 per 25-pound carton of tomatoes handled. The Committee locally administers the marketing order which regulates the handling of tomatoes grown in Florida. Assessments upon tomato handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The fiscal period begins August 1 and ends July 31. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/07/26/2012-18317/tomatoes-grown-in-florida-increased-assessment-rate)
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