Expenses, Assessment Rate, and Indemnification Reserve for Marketing Agreement No. 146 Regulating the Quality of Domestically Produced Peanuts

The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting as a final rule, with appropriate changes, the provisions of an interim final rule that authorized expenditures for administration and indemnification, established an assessment rate, and authorized continuation of an indemnification reserve under Marketing Agreement 146 (agreement) for the 1995-96 crop year. The rule also increased the administrative assessment rate for the 1994-95 crop year. Authorization of this budget enables the Peanut Administrative Committee (Committee) to incur operating expenses, collect funds to pay those expenses, and settle indemnification claims during the 1994-95 crop year. Authorization of the increase in the administrative assessment rate for the 1994-95 crop year enables the Committee to collect sufficient funds to pay expenses projected for the remainder of that year. Funds to administer this program are derived from assessments on handlers who have signed the agreement.