# Grapes Grown in a Designated Area of Southeastern California; Increased Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 2016-06-23 · Effective 2016-06-24 · 81 FR 40781
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-14824
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 40781
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 925
- **Publication date:** 2016-06-23
- **Effective date:** 2016-06-24
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-SC-15-0077
## Abstract

This rule implements a recommendation from the California Desert Grape Administrative Committee (Committee) for an increase of the assessment rate established for the 2016 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.0250 to $0.0300 per 18-pound lug of grapes handled under the marketing order (order). The Committee locally administers the order, and is comprised of producers and handlers of grapes grown and handled in a designated area of southeastern California. Assessments upon grape handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The fiscal period began on January 1 and ends December 31. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/06/23/2016-14824/grapes-grown-in-a-designated-area-of-southeastern-california-increased-assessment-rate)
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