# Onions Grown in South Texas; Decreased Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Interim final rule with request for comments. · Published 2009-08-04 · Effective 2009-08-05 · 74 FR 38505
## Document
- **Document number:** E9-18540
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 74 FR 38505
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 959
- **Publication date:** 2009-08-04
- **Effective date:** 2009-08-05
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-FV-09-0044
## Abstract

This rule decreases the assessment rate established for the South Texas Onion Committee (Committee) for the 2009-10 and subsequent fiscal periods from $0.03 to $0.025 per 50-pound equivalent of onions handled. The Committee locally administers the marketing order which regulates the handling of onions grown in South Texas. Assessments upon onion handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The fiscal period begins August 1 and ends July 31. The assessment rate will remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/08/04/E9-18540/onions-grown-in-south-texas-decreased-assessment-rate)
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