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USDA/GIPSA

RIN: 0580-AB07

Publication ID: Spring 2009

Title: ●Undue Preference and Written Agreements
Abstract: GIPSA is proposing to promulgate regulations addressing whether an undue or unreasonable preference or advantage has occurred in violation of the Packers and Stockyards Act; (the Act) whether a live poultry dealer has provided reasonable notice to poultry growers of any suspension of the delivery of birds under a poultry growing arrangement; when a requirement of additional capital investments over the life of a poultry growing arrangement or swine production contract constitutes a violation of the Act; and if a live poultry dealer or swine contractor has provided a reasonable period of time for a poultry grower or a swine production contract grower to remedy a breach of contract that could lead to termination of the poultry growing arrangement or swine production contract.
Agency: Department of Agriculture(USDA)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: Undetermined	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 9 CFR 201
Legal Authority: 7 USC 181

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
Final	Statutory		06/18/2010

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	08/00/2009

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: H. Tess Butler Regulatory Liaison Department of Agriculture Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration STOP 3604, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250 Phone:202 720-7486 Fax:202 690-2173 Email: h.tess.butler@usda.gov