Irish Potatoes Grown in Certain Designated Counties in Idaho, and Malheur County, OR; Expenses and Assessment Rate

The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting as a final rule, without change, the provisions of an interim final rule that authorized expenses and established an assessment rate that generated funds to pay those expenses under Marketing Order No. 945 for the 1995-96 fiscal period. That rule also increased the level of authorized expenses for the 1993-94 fiscal period. Authorization of this budget enables the Idaho-Eastern Oregon Potato Committee (Committee) to incur expenses that are reasonable and necessary to administer the program. Authorization of the increase in the level of authorized expenses for the 1993-94 fiscal period is necessary because the Committee exceeded its budget for that period. Funds to administer this program are derived from assessments on handlers.