Milk in the Middle Atlantic Marketing Area; Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Order

This document suspends certain pooling provisions of the Middle Atlantic Federal milk marketing order for the months of September 1995 through February 1996, or until such prior time that the rulemaking proceeding to correct the market's pooling problems is concluded. The suspension reduces the percentage of receipts that must be disposed of as Class I disposition by pool distributing plants, provides automatic pool plant status for supply plants and reserve processing plants that were pool plants during the preceding months of September through February, and removes the limits on the amount of milk that may be diverted to nonpool plants by cooperative associations and pool plant operators. The suspension was requested by several Middle Atlantic cooperatives and handlers. The action is necessary to assure that producer milk historically associated with the market will continue to be pooled and priced under the order without incurring unnecessary and uneconomic movements solely for the purpose of maintaining pool status.