# Avocados Grown in South Florida; Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 1996-08-02 · Effective 1996-04-01 · 61 FR 40290
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-19636
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 40290
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 915
- **Publication date:** 1996-08-02
- **Effective date:** 1996-04-01
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. FV96-915-1 FIR
## Abstract

The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting as a final rule, without change, the provisions of an interim final rule that established an assessment rate for the Avocado Administrative Committee (Committee) under Marketing Order No. 915 for the 1996-97 and subsequent fiscal periods. The Committee is responsible for local administration of the marketing order which regulates the handling of avocados grown in South Florida. Authorization to assess avocado handlers enables the Committee to incur expenses that are reasonable and necessary to administer the program.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/08/02/96-19636/avocados-grown-in-south-florida-assessment-rate)
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