# Walnuts Grown in California; Decreased Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Interim rule with request for comments. · Published 2017-07-21 · Effective 2017-07-24 · 82 FR 33775
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-15304
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 33775
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 984
- **Publication date:** 2017-07-21
- **Effective date:** 2017-07-24
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-SC-17-0031
## Abstract

This rule implements a recommendation from the California Walnut Board (Board) to decrease the assessment rate established for the 2017-18 and subsequent marketing years from $0.0465 to $0.0400 per kernelweight pound of assessable walnuts. The Board is comprised of growers and handlers of walnuts and locally administers the marketing order that regulates the handling of walnuts grown in California. The Board also has a public member who has no financial interest in walnut production or handling. 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/2017/07/21/2017-15304/walnuts-grown-in-california-decreased-assessment-rate)
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