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USDA/FAS RIN: 0551-AA71 Publication ID: Spring 2009 
Title: Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) Program 
Abstract: The TASC program provides funds to eligible organizations, on a grant basis, to implement activities that are intended to address sanitary, phytosanitary, and technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops that are available on a commercial basis. The current regulations will incorporate proposed changes to improve stakeholder effectiveness and the internal administration of the program. The changes increase the amount of funding that a participant can request in a given year; remove the prohibition that limits proposals to 3 years; and remove the prohibition limiting participants to no more than three approved projects underway at any given time. 
Agency: Department of Agriculture(USDA)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 7 CFR 1487   
Legal Authority: sec 3205 of PL 107-171   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  12/03/2008  73 FR 73617   
NPRM Comment Period End  02/02/2009    
NPRM Comment Period Extended  03/02/2009    
Final Action  05/00/2009    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Information URL: www.fas.usda.gov  
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Tamoria S Thompson-Hall
Budget Analyst
Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service
Room 6087, Room 6083-S, MS 1028, 1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250-1028
Phone:202 690-1690
Email: tammy.thompson@usda.gov