# Cotton Research and Promotion Program: Procedures for Conduct of Sign-Up Period
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Direct final rule. · Published 2021-04-19 · Effective 2021-06-18 · 86 FR 20255
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-07989
- **Category:** trade
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 20255
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1205
- **Publication date:** 2021-04-19
- **Effective date:** 2021-06-18
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-CN-20-0097
## Abstract

This direct final rule amends the rules and regulations regarding the procedures for the conduct of a sign-up period for eligible cotton producers and importers to request a continuance referendum on the 1991 amendments to the Cotton Research and Promotion Order (Order) provided for in the Cotton Research and Promotion Act (Act) amendments of 1990. The amendments update various dates, name changes, addresses, and make other administrative changes.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/04/19/2021-07989/cotton-research-and-promotion-program-procedures-for-conduct-of-sign-up-period)
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