# Domestic Dates Produced or Packed in Riverside County, CA; Increased Assessment Rate
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 2009-11-03 · Effective 2009-11-04 · 74 FR 56697
## Document
- **Document number:** E9-26369
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 74 FR 56697
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 987
- **Publication date:** 2009-11-03
- **Effective date:** 2009-11-04
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-FV-09-0045
## Abstract

This rule increases the assessment rate established for the California Date Administrative Committee (Committee) for the 2009-10 and subsequent crop years from $0.60 to $0.75 per hundredweight of dates handled. The Committee locally administers the marketing order which regulates the handling of dates grown or packed in Riverside County, California. Assessments upon date handlers are used by the Committee to fund reasonable and necessary expenses of the program. The crop year begins 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/2009/11/03/E9-26369/domestic-dates-produced-or-packed-in-riverside-county-ca-increased-assessment-rate)
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