Milk in the Carolina and Certain Other Marketing Areas; Interim Amendment of Orders

This interim rule amends, on an emergency basis, four Federal milk orders in the Southeastern United States. The amendments establish a transportation credit balancing fund from which to reimburse handlers for the cost of importing bulk milk into these markets for fluid use when local supplies are insufficient to meet fluid needs. The amendments also establish a monthly assessment to maintain the solvency of the fund and a methodology for computation of the transportation credits. The rules are based upon proposals that were considered at a public hearing held May 15-16, 1996, in Charlotte, North Carolina. More than the required two-thirds of the producers in each of the affected marketing areas have approved the issuance of the interim amendments.