# Southeastern Potatoes; Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 1996-08-21 · Effective 1996-06-01 · 61 FR 43146
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-20661
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 43146
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 953
- **Publication date:** 1996-08-21
- **Effective date:** 1996-06-01
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. FV96-953-1 FIR
## Abstract

The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting as a final rule, with an addition, the provisions of an interim final rule that established an assessment rate for the Southeastern Potato Committee (Committee) under Marketing Order No. 953 for the 1996-97 and subsequent fiscal periods. The Committee is responsible for local administration of the marketing order which regulates the handling of Irish potatoes grown in two southeastern States (Virginia and North Carolina). Authorization to assess potato 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/1996/08/21/96-20661/southeastern-potatoes-assessment-rate)
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