# Domestic Dates Produced or Packed in Riverside County, CA; Increased Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 1998-10-09 · Effective 1998-10-13 · 63 FR 54344
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-27180
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 54344
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 987
- **Publication date:** 1998-10-09
- **Effective date:** 1998-10-13
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. FV98-987-1 FR
## Abstract

This rule increases the assessment rate from $0.0556 to $0.10 per hundredweight established for the California Date Administrative Committee (Committee) under Marketing Order No. 987 for the 1998-99 and subsequent crop years. The Committee is responsible for local administration of the marketing order which regulates the handling of dates produced or packed in Riverside County, California. Authorization to assess date handlers enables the Committee to incur expenses that are reasonable and necessary to administer the program. The crop year began October 1 and ends September 30. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/10/09/98-27180/domestic-dates-produced-or-packed-in-riverside-county-ca-increased-assessment-rate)
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