# Onions Grown in South Texas; Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 1997-03-07 · Effective 1996-08-01 · 62 FR 10420
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-5591
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 10420
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 959
- **Publication date:** 1997-03-07
- **Effective date:** 1996-08-01
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. FV96-959-1 FIR
## Abstract

The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting as a final rule, without change, the provisions of an interim final rule establishing an assessment rate for the South Texas Onion Committee (Committee) under Marketing Order No. 959 for the 1996-97 and subsequent fiscal periods. The Committee is responsible for local administration of the marketing order which regulates the handling of onions grown in South Texas. Authorization to assess Texas onion 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/1997/03/07/97-5591/onions-grown-in-south-texas-assessment-rate)
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