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USDA/FSA RIN: 0560-AH77 Publication ID: Fall 2009 
Title: Tobacco Transition Program, Final Dates for Program Signup and Successor-in-Interest Transfers 
Abstract: The Tobacco Transition Payment Program (TTPP), which began in 2005, will end in 2014 and provides payments to assist tobacco quota holders and producers to transition to a free tobacco market from the previously federally regulated program. The final rule will establish deadlines to end the TTPP signup period and the option for contract holders to, in essence, sell their contracts to a third party. The final rule contains two Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) deadlines for TTPP holders and producers of quota tobacco and for owners of Successor-In-Interest (SII) contracts: (1) Enrollment in TTPP will end 60 days after publication of the final rule and (2) the option for the owner of a TTPP contract to take the following actions will end 90 days after publication of the final rule: (a) enter into an SII contract or the current owner of an SII contract to enter into a successive SII contract (a successor contract essentially sells a contract); (b) transfer a TTPP contract to a family member; or (c) transfer a TTPP contract to a producer who had purchased marketing quota prior to October 22, 2004, and assigned the quota to a farm the producer did not own. 
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 1463   
Legal Authority: PL 108-357   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Final Rule  02/00/2010    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Deirdre Holder
Branch Chief, Regulatory Analysis and PRA Requirements Branch
Department of Agriculture
Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, 1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250-0572
Phone:202 205-5851
Email: deirdre.holder@usda.gov