# Walnuts Grown in California; Increased Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 2015-10-28 · Effective 2015-10-29 · 80 FR 65883
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-27359
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 65883
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 984
- **Publication date:** 2015-10-28
- **Effective date:** 2015-10-29
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-FV-15-0026
## Abstract

This rule implements a recommendation from the California Walnut Board (Board) for an increase of the assessment rate established for the 2015-16 and subsequent marketing years from $0.0189 to $0.0379 per kernelweight pound of walnuts handled under the marketing order. The Board locally administers the marketing order and is comprised of growers and handlers of walnuts operating within the area of production. Assessments upon walnut handlers are used by the Board to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The marketing year begins September 1 and ends August 31. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/28/2015-27359/walnuts-grown-in-california-increased-assessment-rate)
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