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This program is intended to provide information on pricing, contracting for purchase, and supply and demand conditions for livestock, livestock production, and livestock products, that can be readily understood by producers, packers, and other market participants. Written comments on this proposed rule must be received on or before April 17,and will be considered before the rule is made final. The AMS has requested and received approval from the Office of Management and Budget for a day comment period on the information collection and recordkeeping requirements of this proposed rule.

Accordingly, comments on the information collection and recordkeeping requirements see Paperwork Reduction Act section of this action must be received on or before April 17, Send two copies of comments to John E. Van Dyke, Chief, Livestock and Grain Market News Branch, Docket No. LS, Room S; Independence Avenue; SW. Comments may also be sent by fax toby electronic mail to: State that your comments refer to Docket No.

Comments received may be inspected at the above location between 8: Comments sent to the above location that specifically pertain to the information collection and recordkeeping requirements of this action should also be sent to the Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.

Van Dyke, Chief, Livestock and Grain Market News Branch atfaxor e-mail john. The current voluntary market news program for livestock is authorized under the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Act ofas amended 7 U.

In the Agricultural Marketing Act ofCongress declared that a sound, efficient, and privately operated system for distributing and marketing agricultural products is essential. Furthermore, it is indispensable to the maintenance of full employment and to the welfare, prosperity, and health of the Nation. Agricultural products, capable of being produced in great abundance, must be marketed in an orderly manner and efficiently distributed.

Some of the objectives of the Agricultural Marketing Act of are to improve marketing methods, reduce distribution costs, and narrow the price spread between the producer and consumer. Under the Act, the Market News Program provides for the collection and dissemination of information to facilitate the orderly and efficient marketing of agricultural products while aiding in the maintenance of farm income.

Market News provides all market participants with the information necessary to make intelligent and informed marketing decisions. Market News relies upon voluntary cooperation from the livestock, red meat, grain, and wool industry. In addition, Market News maintains voluntary working agreements with many States to cooperatively collect and disseminate market information.

Market News reporters collect information daily by telephone, including talking directly with producers, packers, feedlot operators, retailers, distributors, brokers, and other industry participants. Reporters are on site at major auctions and terminal markets, gathering market information first hand. Regular trips are made to observe livestock in feedlots, on farms, ranches, and in packer holding pens.

Meat packing and processing facilities are visited to observe current industry practices and conditions. Reporters attend industry meetings, seminars, and trade shows to keep abreast of the latest information. The information collected by reporters is included in reports that are available to all interested parties. These reports provide data on cattle, hog, sheep, and lamb sales, carlot meat sales of boxed beef, lamb, veal, and pork cuts, weekly wool and mohair sales, and grain and feed sales.

Currently, there are a total of individual reports which are released by Market News. Each day, the livestock and red meat industry uses these reports in conducting their business.

Further, a wide range of users outside of and peripheral to the livestock and red meat industry depend on the information provided in these reports, including Federal and State governmental agencies, foreign governmental agencies, academia, analysts, and news media. The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of Act was enacted into law on October 22, Pub.

The Act provides for the mandatory reporting of market information by Federally inspected livestock processing plants which have slaughtered an average number of livestock during the immediately preceding 5 calendar yearsfor cattle andfor swineincluding any processing plant that did not slaughter during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the plant should be considered a packer based on the plant's capacity.

For entities that did not slaughter during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, such as a new plant or existing plant that begins Start Printed Page operations the AMS will project the plant's annual slaughter or production based upon the plant's estimate of annual slaughter capacity to determine which entities meet the definition of a packer as defined in these regulations.

The Act gives the Secretary the latitude to provide for the reporting of lamb information. The Agricultural Marketing Service AMS is proposing in these regulations to require reporting of market information by Federally inspected lamb processing plants who have slaughtered an average of 75, head of lambs or processed an average of 75, lamb carcasses during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years.

Additionally, a lamb processing plant that did not slaughter an average of 75, lambs or process an average of 75, lamb carcasses during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years will be required to report information if the Secretary determines the processing plant should be considered a packer based on its capacity.

It is proposed that an importer of lamb that, for any calendar year, imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years report such lamb information as specified in these proposed regulations.

Additionally, an importer that did not import an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years will be required to report information if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on their volume of lamb imports.

These packers and importers would be required to report the details of all transactions involving purchases of livestock cattle, swine, and lambslamb carcasses and lamb cuts, and the details of all transactions involving domestic and export sales of boxed beef cuts including branded product, sales of boxed lamb cuts, including branded product, and lamb carcasses to AMS.

This information would be reported to AMS according to the schedule established by the Act and these regulations with purchases of swine reported three times each day, purchases of cattle and lambs reported twice each day, domestic and export sales of boxed beef cuts including branded boxed beef cuts reported twice each day, sales and purchases of lamb carcasses and boxed lamb cuts, including branded boxed lamb cuts, to be reported once daily, purchases of imported lamb carcasses, and sales and purchases of imported lamb cuts once weekly.

In some instances, mandatory reporting will provide new information which has never been reported under the existing voluntary reporting program. AMS anticipates that this information will provide the basis for newly published market news reports not previously provided for under voluntary reporting, including reports covering the prior day swine market, forward contract and formula marketing arrangement cattle purchases, packer-owned cattle and sheep information, sales and purchases of imported boxed lamb cuts, including branded product; purchases of imported lamb carcasses; and live lamb premiums and discounts.

In other instances, mandatory reporting will provide information which is already being provided under voluntary reporting. This would include packer direct purchases of slaughter cattle, packer sales of boxed beef and lamb cuts including branded boxed cuts, packer sales of lamb carcasses, and packer negotiated purchases of swine. AMS anticipates that, in such cases, the market reports reflecting this information will continue to be published but the basis of the market reports will become mandatory information.

Lastly, many voluntary-based market news reports will not be affected by mandatory reporting, including reports covering livestock auction sales, packer sales of pork cuts and byproducts, and grain trading. Initially, AMS expects that mandatory information will be reflected in market news reports on a national level. AMS will start with the issuance of national reports to ensure the confidentiality is preserved regarding the identity of persons, including parties to a contract, and proprietary business information.

In time, when and where possible, these reports may be further refined and subdivided to reflect regional and, possibly, statewide markets. AMS anticipates that it would provide notice in the Federal Register and opportunity for public comment in such an instance.

Again, refinement and subdivision of reports will be made only where the confidentiality can be preserved regarding the identity of persons, including parties to a contract, and proprietary business information.

In order to effectively address the statistical disclosure issues surrounding reporting of data elements below the national level, AMS will consult with appropriate experts in the field of statistical disclosure limitation during program development.

During program development, AMS will also include industry participants in discussions regarding confidentiality issues surrounding data aggregation and reporting. The program developed to collect and manage data received from those entities required to report will ensure security of data transmission and storage, and confidentiality of information that is maintained by AMS. During program development, AMS will include industry participants, as well as technical experts, in discussions regarding issues surrounding data security and confidentiality.

In all cases, AMS intends to continue to publish a mix of existing voluntary market reports along with the proposed mandatory market reports where duplication and inferential disclosure disclosing information in such a way that the identity of a respondent can be inferred is not an issue. Any duplication will be resolved with the discontinuation of the voluntary report version. The Act establishes a program of information regarding the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs and products of such livestock.

AMS is responsible for implementing the mandatory reporting of market information on livestock and livestock products, which is contained in Sections through of the Act. The Sections on mandatory reporting of livestock are divided into five Chapters.

Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, Definitions and Administration, respectively, apply to all species of livestock and livestock products required to be reported. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 apply to beef, swine, and lamb, respectively, and except for lamb, establish the requirements for mandatory reporting.

AMS is proposing regulations in this rulemaking to implement these sections of the Act. The Act also directs the Secretary to encourage continued voluntary reporting by packers to which these mandatory reporting requirements do not apply. Other Agencies in the Department are responsible for implementing the remaining sections of the Act.

These sections include the following provisions. Section of the Act provides for the compilation and monthly publication of retail prices of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey and veal and the initiation of a meat price spreads report.

The Act also contains Related Beef Reporting Provisions, Sections through which provides for export certificates for meat and meat food products, and obtain information on imports of beef, beef variety meats, and cattle. Related Swine Reporting Provisions, Sections through calls for improving the hogs and pigs inventory report, the collection Start Printed Page of information on barrow and gilt slaughter, and the conduct of an average trim loss correlation study and preparation of report.

Swine Packer Marketing Contracts, Sections and require the establishment and maintenance of a library or catalogue of swine packer marketing contracts offered to producers and a monthly report of contracted swine numbers.

The Act requires that a cattle packer whose Federally inspected plant slaughtered an average of at leastcattle per year for the preceding 5 calendar years or did not slaughter cattle during the preceding 5 calendar years but is considered a packer based on plant capacity as determined by the Secretary, report market information to the Secretary. They are required to report the prices for each type of cattle purchase, categorized to clearly delineate imported from domestic market purchases, negotiated purchase, formula marketing arrangement, and forward contract, the quantity of cattle, categorized to clearly delineate imported from domestic market purchases, purchased on a live weight basis and a carcass basis, the weight, the quality grade, and premiums and discounts.

This information would be reported twice a day not later than The Secretary will issue reports to the public of this information at least three times each day. The Act further requires that a packer report marketing information not later than 9 a. Central Time on the first reporting day of each week for cattle bought by the type of purchase for the prior week.

In addition, packers must report weekly information on the first reporting day not later than 9 a. Central Time for cattle purchased on a formula or contract marketing arrangement and slaughtered the prior week. The Secretary will issue a public report not later than 10 a. Central Time on the first reporting day of the current slaughter week. The Act also mandates that the packer report information on boxed beef cut sales to the Secretary at least twice each reporting day not less frequently than once before and once after This information includes the price per hundredweight, the quantity in each lot of boxed beef cuts sold, information regarding the characteristics of each lot i.

The Secretary will report this information to the public twice each reporting day. The Act requires that a swine packer whose Federally inspected plant slaughtered an average of at leastswine per year for the preceding 5 calendar years or did not slaughter swine during the preceding 5 calendar years but is considered a packer based on plant capacity as determined by the Secretary, report market information to the Secretary.

The packer must report to the Secretary not later than 7: Central Time information on all swine purchased, priced, or slaughtered on the prior business day. The packer must report all purchasing data including the number of swine purchased, swine scheduled for delivery and the base price and purchase data for slaughtered swine for which a price has been established.

The information also includes all slaughter data by class for the total number of swine slaughtered including information concerning the net price, average net price, lowest net price, highest net price, average carcass weight, average sort loss, average backfat, average lean percentage, and total slaughter quantity.

When a packer reports the average lean percentage and whenever the packer changes the manner in which the average lean percentage is calculated, the packer shall make available to the Secretary the underlying data, applicable methodology and formulae, and supporting materials used to determine the average lean percentage, which the Secretary will convert to the carcass measurements or lean percentage of the swine of the individual packer to correlate to a common percent lean measurement.

Additionally, the information to be reported includes packer purchase commitments, which shall be equal to the number of swine scheduled for delivery to a packer for slaughter each of the next 14 calendar days. The Secretary will publish the information in a prior day report not later than 8: Central Time on the reporting day on which the information is received from the packer.

The Act also requires packers to report to the Secretary in the morning not later than Central Time and in the afternoon not later than 2: Central Time each reporting day. The information to be reported is the same for the morning and afternoon reports and includes an estimate of 1 the total number of swine purchased by each method of pricing, 2 the total number of swine purchased up until the time of reporting, and 3 the base price paid for all negotiated purchases of market hogs and the base price paid for each type of purchase of market hogs other than through a negotiated purchase.

The Secretary will make the morning report available to the public not later than Central Time and the afternoon report at 3: Central Time on each reporting day. The Secretary will compile and issue a weekly noncarcass merit premium report on the first reporting day of the week not later than 5: This report is prepared from information furnished to the Secretary by packers who must report not later than 4: Central Time on the first reporting day of the week.

The information required includes each category of standard noncarcass merit premiums and the amount in dollars per hundred pounds of carcass weight paid to producers by the packer. Further, the Act provides that the Secretary review the information required to be reported by packers at least once very two years. Also, the Act directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations that specify additional information to be reported by packers if the Secretary determines information currently reported does not accurately reflect the methods by which swine are valued or priced, or account for the fact that packers that slaughter a significant majority of the swine produced in the United States no longer use backfat or lean percentage factors as indicators of price.

The Act gives the Secretary the authority to establish a mandatory lamb price reporting program that will provide timely, accurate, and reliable market information. The Secretary proposes to establish a mandatory lamb price reporting program. The Act does not specify the requirements for establishing a mandatory lamb price reporting program as it does for cattle and swine.

Accordingly, AMS proposes to establish a mandatory lamb price reporting program based upon its extensive knowledge of the lamb industry and market news reporting of lamb. The Agency proposes the following requirements for a mandatory lamb price reporting program. A lamb packer whose Federally inspected plant slaughtered or processed an average of at least the equivalent of 75, lambs each year for the preceding 5 calendar years would report to the Secretary twice daily the price of each type of lamb purchase, negotiated purchase, formula marketing arrangements, forward contract, quantity of lamb purchased on live Start Printed Page weight or carcass weight, a range and average estimated live weights, quality grade, premiums and discounts, state of origin, and estimated dressing percentage.

The Secretary would issue a report to the public on this information not less than twice each day. Lamb packers would be required to report to the Secretary on a weekly basis on the first reporting day of the week information from the prior week. This information would include the quantity and certain carcass characteristics of lambs purchased through a negotiated purchase, formula marketing arrangement or forward contract that were slaughtered, the quantity and carcass characteristics of packer owned lamb that were slaughtered.

Reported information would include, by type of purchase, the quantity of lamb purchased on live weight and carcass weight basis that were slaughtered, the quality grade, premiums and discounts paid, dressing percentage, and shrink factor. In addition, a lamb packer would be required to report the quantity and basis level for forward contracts, the range and average of intended premiums and discounts, and the expected slaughter date.

The Secretary would make available to the public the information on the first reporting day of the current slaughter week. Packers would report information on daily transactions of carcass lamb each reporting day and sales of boxed lamb cuts each reporting day. For transactions of carcass lamb, the information would include prices for sales, the type of sale, the branded product characteristics, the quantity of each sale, the USDA grade, trim specification, weight range, and delivery date.

For sales of boxed lamb cuts, the packer would report the same information plus the quantity of boxes of each cut and the weight range of each cut. The Secretary will issue to the public a report on carcass lamb sales and boxed lamb cut sales once each reporting day. For any calendar year, a lamb importer who imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years would report to the Secretary weekly the prices paid for imported lamb carcasses and boxed lamb cuts, and the prices received for imported lamb cuts sold on the domestic market.

Additionally, an importer that did not import an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years would also be required to report the above information, if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on their volume of lamb imports. Lamb importers would be required to report weekly, prices paid for imported lamb carcasses during the prior week including the type of purchase, the quantity of each transaction, the estimated weight range of the carcasses, the product delivery date, and the product nation of origin.

Lamb importers would be required to report weekly, prices paid for boxed lamb cuts during the prior week including the quantity of each transaction, the type of purchase, the cut of lamb, the trim specification, branded product characteristics, the cut weight range, the product delivery date, and the product nation of origin.

Finally, lamb importers would be required to report weekly, prices received for sales of imported boxed lamb cuts sold on the domestic market during the prior week including the quantity of each transaction, the type of sale, the branded product characteristics, the cut of lamb, the trim specification, the cut weight range, the product delivery date, and the product nation of origin.

The administrative provisions of the Act set forth the requirements for maintaining confidentiality regarding the packer reporting of proprietary information and lists the conditions under which Federal employees can release such information. These administrative provisions also establish that the Secretary can make necessary adjustments in the information reported by packers and take action to verify the information reported, and directs the Secretary to report and publish reports by electronic means to the maximum extent practical.

The Act provides for what constitutes violations of the Act, such as failure to report the required information on time or failure to report accurate information. This section also provides for notice and hearing of violations before the Secretary, judicial review, issuance of an injunction or restraining order, and establishes a civil penalty for failure to obey a cease and desist order.

The fees section directs the Secretary to not charge or assess fees for the submission, reporting, receipt, availability, or access to published reports or information collected through this program. The section on recordkeeping requires each packer to make available to the Secretary on request for 2 years the original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records associated with any transaction relating to the purchase, sale, pricing, transportation, delivery, weighing, slaughter, or carcass characteristics of all livestock and livestock products, as well as such records or other information that is necessary or appropriate to verify the accuracy of information required to be reported.

Also, the Act provides that reporting entities would not be required to report new or additional information that they do not generally have available or maintain, or the provisions of which would be unduly burdensome. Further, the Act provides that the Secretary may suspend any requirement if the Secretary determines that the application of the requirement would be inconsistent with the Act.

This proposed rule would establish and add a new Part 57 to Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implementing the mandatory livestock reporting provisions of the Act. Accordingly, these regulations include appropriate definitions; a description of which entities would be required to report market information; a description of what information they would report, when they would report, and how they would report; a description of what information the Secretary would make available to the public and when this information would be made available; an explanation of what records would be required to be maintained and made available to the Secretary.

Part 57 would implement the provisions of the Act. Subpart A of Part 57, General Provisions, covers those requirements pertinent to all aspects of mandatory reporting. Electronic reporting would be required for all information collection. Electronic reporting would involve the transfer of data from a packer's or importer's existing electronic recordkeeping system to a centrally located AMS electronic database.

The packer or importer would be required to organize the information in an AMS-approved format before electronically transmitting the information to AMS. Once the required information has been entered into the AMS database, it would be aggregated and processed into various market reports which would be released according to the daily and Start Printed Page weekly time schedule set forth in these proposed regulations. Reporting packers and importers would be required to maintain and to make available the original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records associated with any transaction relating to the purchase, sale, pricing, transportation, delivery, weighing, slaughter, or carcass characteristics of all livestock.

In addition, they would be required to maintain such records or other information as is necessary or appropriate to verify the accuracy of the information required to be reported under these regulations. All of the above mentioned paperwork must be maintained by packers and importers for at least 2 years. Further, packers would be required to maintain a record of the time of day a lot of cattle, swine, or lambs was purchased, either before Central Time, between Central Time, and after 2: However, to allow packers and importers time to collect, assemble and submit the information to AMS by the prescribed deadlines, all covered transactions up to within one half hour of the specified reporting times would be reported.

Lastly, under Subpart A, Section Subpart B of Part 57 states what is required to be reported in the cattle and boxed beef sectors. In any calendar year, the term cattle packer includes any Federally inspected cattle plant which slaughtered an average ofhead of cattle a year for the immediately preceding 5 calendar years.

Additionally, the term includes any processing plant that did not slaughter cattle during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the plant should be considered a packer based on its capacity. For entities that did not slaughter cattle during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, such as a new plant or existing plant that begins operations the AMS will project the plant's annual slaughter or production based upon the plant's estimate of annual slaughter capacity to determine which entities meet the definition of a packer as defined in these regulations.

Cattle plants covered under the rule would report the details of their cattle purchases twice each day to AMS once by Central Time, and once by 2: Central Time and would include all covered transactions made up to within one half hour of the specified reporting time.

Packers completing transactions during the one half hour prior to the previous reporting time would report those transactions at the next prescribed reporting time. The Secretary would publish the information not less than three times each day. Packers would be required to report information regarding the prior slaughter week on the first reporting day of each week by 8: This information would be published by the Secretary on the same day by Finally under Subpart B, Section Cattle plants producing boxed beef cuts would be required to report their domestic and export sales of boxed beef cuts including branded boxed beef cuts to AMS twice each reporting day, once by Central Time and once by 2: Central Time, including all covered transactions made up to within one half hour of the specified reporting time.

Cattle plants completing transactions during the one half hour prior to the previous reporting time would report those transactions at the next prescribed reporting time. This information would be published twice each day by the Secretary. These plants would be required to reference the USDA's Livestock and Seed Program Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications IMPSFresh Beef Series Subpart C of Part 57 lists the requirements of swine reporting beginning with Section In any calendar year, the term swine packer includes any Federally inspected swine plant which slaughtered an average ofhead of swine a year for the immediately preceding 5 calendar years.

Additionally, the term includes any processing plant that did not slaughter swine during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the plant should be considered a packer based on its capacity.

For entities that did not slaughter swine during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, such as a new plant or existing plant that begins operations, the AMS will project the plant's annual slaughter or production based upon the plant's estimate of annual slaughter capacity to determine which entities meet the definition of a packer as defined in these regulations.

Swine packers required to report under this rule would report the details of their swine purchases three times each day including a prior day report not later than 7: Central Time, a morning report not later than Central Time, and an afternoon report not later than 2: Central Time, including all covered transactions made up to within one half hour of each specified reporting time. This information would be published by the Secretary each reporting day not later than 8: Central Time, and 3: On the first reporting day of each week, not later than 4: Central Time, packers would be required to report information on noncarcass merit premiums used and paid to producers during the prior slaughter week by category.

This information would be published on the first reporting day of each week not later than 5: Subpart D of Part 57 covers the mandatory reporting of lambs. The Act gives the Secretary the authority to establish a mandatory lamb price reporting program but does not set forth the requirements.

AMS proposes to Start Printed Page establish a mandatory lamb price reporting program.

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For any calendar year, the term lamb packers includes any Federally inspected lamb plant which times trade forex or processed the equivalent of an average of 75, head of lambs a year for the immediately preceding cp money maker mac free download calendar years.

Additionally, the term includes any processing plant that did not slaughter or process an average of 75, lambs during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the plant should be considered a packer based on the capacity of the processing plant.

For entities that did not slaughter lambs during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, such as a new plant or existing plant that begins operations the AMS will project the plant's annual slaughter or production based upon the plant's estimate of annual slaughter capacity to determine which entities meet the definition of a packer as defined in these regulations. For any calendar year, the term lamb importer includes any importer that imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years.

Additionally, for any calendar year, the term importer includes any lamb importer that did not import an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products during the immediately preceding 5 invest or pay off mortgage uk years if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on their volume of lamb imports.

For importers of lamb carcasses and cuts, AMS will annually review import lamb volume data obtained winchester livestock auction the United States Customs Service to determine which importers are required to report imported lamb carcasses and boxed lamb cut purchase information and boxed lamb cut sales information under these regulations.

Entities covered under the 75, per year provision represent nearly all lamb packers and processors which currently contribute to voluntary reporting. The lamb packer definition varies from that of the cattle and swine definitions in that it includes entities that process as well as slaughter. The trading of lamb carcasses continues to be a mainstay of the industry and many of the major processors of lamb carcasses into boxed lamb cuts do not slaughter but, rather, purchase carcasses from slaughterers.

The 75, head per year provision for both slaughterers and processors was included to ensure more comprehensive coverage of the lamb carcass and boxed lamb cut markets, similar to what is currently being reported under voluntary reporting. Lamb plants covered under the rule would report the details of their live lamb purchases twice each day to AMS, to include all covered transactions made up to within one half hour of the specified reporting time.

Lamb plants completing transactions during the one half hour prior to the previous reporting time would report those transactions at the next prescribed reporting time. The Secretary would publish this information not less than twice each day. Packers would be required to report information regarding the prior slaughter week on the first reporting day of each week to be binary option vba by the Secretary on the same day.

Packers would be required to report details of their domestic transactions of carcass lambs once each day and the Secretary would publish the information once each day. Packers would be required to report details of their domestic how can i buy anz shares of boxed lamb cuts, including branded product. This information would be published once each day.

These plants would be required to reference the USDA's Livestock and Seed Program Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications IMPSFresh Lamb and Mutton Series Importers of lamb carcasses would be required to report the required information of their prior week imported lamb carcass purchases on the first reporting day of each week to be published by the Secretary on the same otc securities market. Importers of boxed lamb cuts would be required to report the required information of their prior week imported boxed lamb cut purchases including branded product on the first reporting day of each week to be published by the Secretary on the same day.

Additionally, importers of boxed lamb cuts would be required to report details of their prior week sales of imported boxed lamb cuts on the domestic market including branded product forex trading higher highs lower lows the first reporting day of each week to be published by the Secretary on the same day.

Lastly, Subpart E of Part 57 covers the OMB control numbers for the information collection requirements listed in Subparts B through D of Part All required information must be reported to AMS in a standardized format. The standardized format is embodied in forex gtc order OMB-approved data collection forms.

Copies of these 16 forms are included in Appendices at the end of this rule. Cattle packers would utilize six of these forms Appendix A when reporting information to AMS including two for daily cattle reporting, three for weekly cattle reporting, and one for daily boxed beef cuts reporting. Swine packers would utilize three forms Appendix Btwo for daily reporting of swine purchases and one for weekly reporting of non-carcass merit premium information.

Lamb packers would utilize seven of these forms Appendix C when reporting information to AMS including two for daily lamb reporting, paid for the binary options strategy for weekly lamb reporting, one for daily and weekly boxed lamb cuts reporting and one for daily and weekly lamb carcass reporting.

Lamb importers would utilize two of these forms when reporting best free forex expert advisor 2016 to AMS including one for reporting weekly imported lamb carcass and one for reporting weekly imported boxed lamb cut purchases and sales. Although not trading strategies blogspot significant, this rule has been determined to be significant for the purposes of Executive Orderand therefore, has been reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget OMB.

Regulations must be designed in the most cost-effective manner possible to obtain the regulatory objective while imposing the least burden on society. AMS has prepared a Regulatory Impact Assessment RIA consisting of a statement of the need for the proposed action, an examination of alternative approaches, and an analysis of the benefits and costs. A complete analysis of the number of affected entities and the required volume of reporting is discussed under the Paperwork Reduction Act section following this section.

Start Printed Page As stated in the background section, currently, packers are not required to report prices or the terms of sale for how to download stock data from yahoo finance animals they buy from producers.

Rather, AMS collects information on daily sales and price information from packers and others on a voluntary basis. However, in recent years more animals are now being transacted under marketing arrangements where neither the arrangements nor the final purchase prices are vanguard emerging market stock index fund admiral disclosed.

Current market price reports do not capture these pricing mechanisms. Likewise, importers of lamb carcasses and cuts are not required to report purchases and sales of such imported products. In recent years, the livestock industry has undergone fundamental changes due to economies of size at both the producer and packer level. These changes are reflected in the structure and marketing practices used today.

Today, premier trading forex firms slaughter about 80 percent of all fed futures trade setups, about 55 percent of all hogs, and about 80 percent of all lambs.

On the producer side, about feedlots account for about 39 percent can you turn paypal money into cash feedlot cattle marketings, the remainingfeedlots account for 61 percent of the marketings.

About 2, hog operations control about 47 percent of the hog inventory and the remaining 90, farms hold 53 percent. To assure the packers consistent quantities and quality of animals, many of the larger producers, often at a premium price, will enter into private marketing agreements with the packers. The packer is assured of larger lots, scheduled delivery, and consistent quality animals yielding meat with characteristics desired by consumers.

The producer gets a higher price than in the traditional open markets and reduced transaction costs. Rather than buy and sell on the open market, many large slaughtering firms increasingly feed their own animals or utilize private marketing arrangements, such as forward contracts, formula pricing, and exclusive purchase agreements—for which prices and terms of sale are not publicly disclosed.

The procurement methods make it difficult for producers, particularly smaller ones, who utilize open cash markets or wish to consider alternative marketing arrangements, to determine the actual purchase prices of livestock.

Most major packers provide information daily to Market News on cash prices and total numbers of livestock involved in transactions. This does not provide full coverage of animals purchased.

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Market News estimates that percent of all slaughter steer and heifer transactions, 25 percent of slaughter hog transactions, and 60 forexpros grafico euro dollaro of all slaughter lamb transactions are reported daily through the voluntary process.

The remaining percent of cattle transactions, 75 percent of the hog transactions, and 40 percent of the lamb transactions, which are not reported voluntarily, represent private marketing arrangements.

As private marketing agreements become more prevalent, the number of reported transactions will further shrink and the accuracy and completeness of the information for U. Various groups have asked for mandatory price reporting of livestock products, arguing that fewer publicly reported marketing arrangements make it difficult for producers to determine the actual prevailing purchase prices of livestock.

The pressure for mandatory reporting has steadily increased in recent years, though prior attempts to pass mandatory reporting legislation have been unsuccessful, largely due to a lack of broad, unified support from the industry. Over the past couple of years, reported price levels for cattle, hogs, and lambs have run below the 5-year average leading some to stock options brasil that it was due to market forces of supply and demand or lower quality animals in the cash market.

In the fall ofslaughter plants operated at full capacity and reported cash hog prices reached a 30 year low. During this period, producers and policy officials were looking for accurate and timely market information to guide their decisions. A true hog price picture eluded them as a large amount of unreported transactions kept market news from being able to report the actual purchase price of hogs.

Private marketing arrangements or otherwise coordinated agreements between hog producers and slaughter plants are increasingly the norm. As a result, spot-market demand for slaughter hogs is greatly influenced by slaughter capacity utilization. When the available supply of slaughter hogs exceeds the designed plant capacity, slaughter costs rise as packers turn to overtime labor.

To compensate for sharply higher labor costs, slaughter plants lower their bids for slaughter hogs on the public cash markets. This reduces demand for the uncontracted supply of slaughter hogs and is reflected in sharply lower spot market cash prices. This was the situation in late Many market participants were no longer able to obtain empirical review of the impact of globalization on stock market growth actual purchase prices of hogs on which to base their marketing decisions.

These circumstances helped to galvanize industry support for mandatory reporting and best forex mac software groups worked throughout the latter half of to die forex trading methodology manual by gene ballard a mandatory reporting proposal.

During the same time period, the General Accounting Office GAO was requested by members of Congress to conduct a study on USDA's pork price reporting system. The study found that USDA's current methods for reporting farm and retail prices did how to display select option value in javascript accurately reflect actual prices for all methods of purchase.

During periods of plentiful hog supplies, packers frequently pay a lower price for hogs procured through the spot market than those procured by contract. However, the study did point out spot market hogs are lloyd banks make money mp3 download generally lower quality and more variable in weight and availability which may explain why packers are willing to pay a premium for a stable flow of hogs with consistent quality and weights.

Ultimately, Congress passed the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of Act which seeks to provide more transparency in the price discovery process and, thereby, to encourage competition in the marketplace for livestock and livestock products.

By mandating reporting, the Act seeks to provide more market information to all market participants. These proposed regulations would implement the Act. It would require packers to provide to Market News the terms of all their livestock purchases, including those obtained through private marketing arrangements.

Moreover, it would require processors of boxed beef and lamb cuts, breakers of lamb carcasses, and importers of lamb carcasses and boxed lamb cuts to report all transactions. AMS anticipates that this information will provide the basis for newly published market news reports not previously provided for under voluntary reporting, including reports covering the prior day forex trading scams australia market, forward contract and formula marketing arrangement cattle purchases, packer-owned cattle and sheep information, Start Printed Page sales and purchases of imported boxed lamb cuts, including branded product; purchases of imported lamb carcasses; and live lamb premiums and discounts.

Collectively, the new mandatory information and the current voluntary information will provide more transparency in the price discovery process and, thereby, encourage competition in the marketplace for livestock and livestock products.

As required by E. Most private marketing reporting services rely on basic AMS livestock prices and organize the data in a particular way for a client. Further, the Act directs the Secretary to, the ways to make money on runescape p2p extent practicable, provide for the reporting and publishing of information by electronic means.

However, in developing these proposed regulations AMS did consider other means by which the objectives of this proposed rule could be accomplished, including reporting the required information by telephone, facsimile, and regular mail. AMS believes these alternatives are not capable of meeting the program objectives, especially timely reporting. The Act prescribes specific times that reporting entities must report to AMS. Similarly, the Act prescribes specific times for publication of a report by AMS.

AMS believes electronic submission to be the only method capable of allowing for AMS to collect, aggregate and publish reports while complying with the specific time-frames set forth in the Act.

AMS believes it would not be possible for the Agency to receive information over the telephone, facsimile or regular mail and then transcribe the information into electronic format before aggregating and publishing the information while still complying with the publication time-frames set forth in the Act. However, AMS may provide for an exception to electronic reporting in emergencies or in cases when an alternative is agreeable to AMS and the reporting entity. The major cost of complying with this proposed rule involves the information collection and reporting process.

The information collection and reporting process is explained in the Summary pivot point trading strategy forex factory Costs Section and is referenced in Section We are inviting comments concerning both the potential cost burden and methods for expediting information collection. In particular, we are interested in any costs not discussed in the analysis and any additional electronic reporting methods that may provide greater cost efficiencies to the industry as a whole.

A complete discussion stock market closing dec 24 the cost analysis can be found in the summary of costs section. Many producers contend that they cannot obtain the market information needed to easily and quickly compare marketing possibilities available from different packers.

This information is needed for producers to devise a marketing strategy that obtains the best possible prices for their livestock. Private advisory services would be able to provide a more in depth analysis to clients about alternative marketing strategies. In addition, producers selling under a private marketing agreement need benchmark prices and terms to evaluate their particular agreement to assure an equitable price for their livestock.

Furthermore, the growth of private marketing arrangements in the red meat industry and declining participation in the public markets make it difficult for producers to determine prevailing market prices. Mandatory reporting would require packers to provide USDA all terms of their marketing contracts. The implementation of options trades reported to irs proposed rule would improve the price and supply reporting services of the USDA.

In addition, participants in the marketplace for livestock and livestock products would be able to easily monitor price and market conditions. The price discovery process would become more transparent ensuring equal market information access for all participants. The increased transparency would more clearly transmit market signals about qualities first buyers demand thereby rewarding producers who produce animals that yield the meat consumers desire with a higher price.

The increase in the quantity and quality of available market information forex charting indicator software reviews encourage competition in the marketplace while providing participants with the ability to make more informed marketing decisions. Although quantities and prices of production inputs are obtained by surveys and production costs are derived, the question remains as to how to value the output in a complex marketing environment.

Producers would benefit from the increase in information brought about by mandatory reporting by being able to consider more detailed market reports and previously unavailable data on federal livestock market reports market livestock procurements. These reports would better reflect the overall supply and demand trend detector indicator mt4 of the marketplace and would allow producers to better determine prevailing market prices, conditions, and arrangements pertinent to the marketing process.

The proposed regulations have been designed to achieve the regulatory objectives in as cost-effective manner as possible.

To the extent practicable, they draw upon current industry practices in order to minimize the burden to the industry. The regulatory objective is to increase the amount of information available to participants in the marketplace for livestock and livestock products by mandating reporting of market information by certain members of the industry.

Methods of accomplishing the required information collection in the most timely manner while minimizing the opportunity for errors and maximizing stock market rebound systems and processes were contemplated.

Electronic transfer of data from the reporting entity to the Agency was chosen making money scrap metal recycling the least cost reporting method to accomplish all of the objectives of mandatory information collection. AMS considered other alternatives for firms lacking electronic data transfer capabilities, such as faxing the required information to a Market News office for hand data entry.

This was rejected because earnest money interest bearing the costs to both the respondent and to AMS, the amount of time required with this icici forex card login page is unworkable given the short time-frames required for public dissemination.

However, there would be an exception in emergencies or in cases when an alternative method is agreeable to AMS and the reporting entity. Electronic data transmission of information is accomplished using an interface with an existing electronic record keeping system.

In most cases, the information packers and importers Start Printed Page main features of stock market speculation in the usa during the 1920s required to report already exists in internal computerized record keeping systems.

Packers and importers would provide for the translation of the information from their existing electronic recordkeeping system web based forex brokers the required AMS standardized format. Once accomplished, the information would be electronically transmitted to AMS where it would be automatically loaded into an AMS database.

We estimate that the cost in terms of time and money for this alternative is in the initial creation of the interface.

We estimate that the creation of this interface by in-house computer personnel would require an industry average of 15 hours per respondent. Those companies not having in-house computer personnel would incur such costs as are necessary to bring in outside computer programmers to accomplish the task. The respondent reporting costs entertainment transcription jobs from home widely by species and royal mail share offer notification size of lots purchased.

Section c General Provisions Reporting by Packers requires packers to report all information required under this subtitle on an individual lot average stock broker salary nyc. Therefore, larger lots bought by the larger packers would result in a lower reporting cost per head slaughtered.

Using federally inspected slaughter data; the cost per animal slaughtered would decline as slaughter volume increased. The smaller cattle packers would have the highest reporting cost per head slaughter, while the largest hog slaughtering firms would have the lowest. Based on a preliminary analysis by specie, cost for cattle would be 0. Comments on costs are requested, particularly as they relate to size of operation are being sought. See Table 1 Respondent Cost. In order to implement the program the best strategy for minute binary option trading FYAMS is hiring additional staff, issuing regulations, and setting up an electronic database to capture data and Start Printed Page develop reports to begin in July.

The 56 staff years required to administer and produce high quality mandatory price reports include reporters, auditors, clerical personnel, and computer specialists. These employees will be forex trading spanish in three AMS offices located across the country. This proposal has been reviewed under Nigerian stock exchange trade alert OrderCivil Justice Reform, and is not intended to have retroactive effect.

States and political divisions of States are specifically preempted by section of the Act from imposing requirements in addition to, or inconsistent with, any requirements of the Act with respect to the submission or publication of information on the prices and quantities of livestock or livestock products.

Further, the Act does not restrict or modify the authority of the Secretary to administer or enforce the Packers and Stockyards Act, 7 U. There are no administrative procedures that must be exhausted prior to any judicial challenge to the provisions of this rule. AMS has considered the potential civil rights implications of this rule on minorities, josh brolin stock market, or persons with disabilities to ensure that no person or group shall be discriminated jquery select remove option by id on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, or marital or family status.

This included those persons who are employees of those entities required to participate and those individuals who wish to use information collected by this proposed mandatory program of information regarding the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs, and products of such livestock. This proposed rule does not require affected entities to relocate or alter their operations in ways that could adversely affect such persons or groups.

Further, this proposed program would not exclude from participation any persons or groups, deny any persons or groups the benefits of the program, or subject any persons or groups to discrimination. This proposed rule has been reviewed under Executive OrderFederalism.

This Order directs agencies to construe, in regulations and otherwise, a Federal statute to preempt State law only when the statute contains an expressed preemption provision. This proposed rule is required by the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of For a number of years, States have operated programs of voluntary market reporting of livestock and livestock products. Many of these best forex broker award 2016 have been operated in conjunction with the USDA through Federal-State agreements.

Under these agreements, the USDA and the States work cooperatively to gather and disseminate information on the livestock markets within the State. Until now, all of these programs have been based on voluntary reporting of market information. The Act citibank international atm rates these proposed regulations are not intended to have an effect on any how to make gold in wow cata market reporting programs currently being operated by the States.

However, recently, several States have enacted legislation mandating, to various degrees, the reporting of market information on transactions of cattle, swine, and lambs conducted within that particular State. Currently, this includes the States of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Of these, only Minnesota and South Dakota are collecting mandated market information. Section of the Act, preempts States from imposing mandatory reporting requirements that are in addition to or inconsistent with any requirement of this proposed rule with respect to the collection and publication of information on the prices and quantities of livestock and livestock products.

This preemption clause would affect all mandatory reporting programs currently in effect by the States and the implementation of any mandatory reporting programs currently developed, in the process of being developed, or that may be developed at a later date.

With regard to consultation with States, AMS has made sure that the States are aware of the Act and AMS has engaged in formal and program for auto binary options ea discussions regarding the implications of Federal livestock mandatory reporting with those States which either currently have mandatory reporting programs or are in the process of developing mandatory reporting programs.

Further, States and local jurisdictions are expressly invited to comment on this proposal as it relates to the operation of State livestock and livestock products reporting programs. This proposed rule has been reviewed under the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act RFA 5 U. The purpose of the RFA is to consider the economic impact of a proposed rule on small business entities.

Alternatives, which would accomplish the objectives of the rule without unduly burdening small entities or erecting barriers that would restrict their ability to compete in the marketplace, have been evaluated. Regulatory action should be appropriate to the scale of the businesses subject to the action.

The proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of AMS concerning the mandatory reporting of livestock information. The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of requires AMS to collect and publish livestock market information. The required information is only available directly from those entities required to report under the Act and by these proposed regulations and exists nowhere else.

Therefore, this proposed rule does not duplicate market information reasonably accessible to the Agency. In formulating this proposed rule, particular consideration was given to reducing the burden on entities while still achieving the objectives of the proposed regulation.

Accordingly, thresholds were set which defined those entities which would be required to report information on purchases of live cattle, swine, lambs, lamb carcasses, and boxed lamb cuts including branded product, as well as information on domestic and export sales of boxed beef cuts including branded product, and sales of lamb carcasses, boxed lamb cuts Start Printed Page including branded product, and imported boxed lamb cuts including branded product.

In any calendar year, only Federally inspected cattle plants which slaughtered an average ofhead of cattle a year for the immediately preceding 5 calendar years are required to report. Additionally, any cattle plant that did not slaughter cattle during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years would be required to report if the Secretary determines that the plant should be considered a packer based on its capacity.

This interactive brokers option cost for exchange rate euro to pound sterling 49 out of cattle plants or 6. For any calendar year, any Federally inspected swine plant which slaughtered an average ofhead of swine a year for the immediately preceding 5 calendar pet society playfish cash generator would be required to report information.

Additionally, any swine plant that did not slaughter swine during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the plant should be considered a packer based on the capacity of the processing plant would be required to report. This accounts for approximately 50 out of swine plants or 6. In any calendar year, Federally inspected lamb plants which slaughtered the equivalent of an average of 75, head of lambs a year for the immediately preceding 5 calendar years would be considered a packer and required to report.

A packer includes a processing plant that purchases and processes an average of 75, lamb carcasses annually rather than slaughter live lambs. Additionally, any processing plant that did not slaughter an average of 75, lambs during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the plant should be considered a packer based on the capacity of the processing plant would be required italian forex broker report.

For any calendar year, lamb importers that imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the forex traders log book preceding 5 calendar years would be required to report. Additionally, lamb importers that did not import an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products during the immediately preceding neo trade forex calendar years if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on the volume of lamb imports would be required to report.

Some lamb plants may also be importers. This accounts for approximately 16 forex canadian dollar forecast of lamb plants and importers or 2. Accordingly, we also have prepared an initial regulatory flexibility analysis. The RFA compares the size of meat packing plants to the Standard Industrial Code SIC to determine the percentage of small businesses within the meat packing industry.

Under these size standards, meat packing companies with or less employees are considered small business entities.

The objective of this proposed rule is to improve the price and supply reporting services of the Department of Agriculture in order to encourage competition in the marketplace for livestock and livestock products by increasing the amount of information available to participants.

This is accomplished through the establishment of a program of information regarding the marketing of cattle, swine, lambs, and products of such how to get tix fast on roblox 2 ways as specifically directed by the Act and these proposed regulations, as described in detail in the background section.

This proposed rule provides for the mandatory reporting of market information by livestock packers who for any calendar year have slaughtered a certain number of livestock during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years. This number ishead per year for cattle andhead per year for swine.

Lamb plants required to report include those that for any calendar year slaughter or process the equivalent of 75, head per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years. Additionally, for any calendar year lamb importers that imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per calendar year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years are also required to report details of their purchases.

For cattle and swine processing plants that have not slaughtered livestock during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years are also required to report if the Secretary determines that the plants should be considered packers based on their capacity. Additionally, lamb packers and lamb meat processors and importers that did not slaughter or process the equivalent of 75, head per year or import 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years would be required to report if the Secretary determines that they should be considered an importer based on their volume of lamb imports.

These packers and importers would be required to report the details of all transactions involving purchases of livestock, of lamb carcasses, and of import lamb carcasses and boxed lamb cuts including branded boxed optionshouse 60 free trades cuts; and the details of all transactions involving domestic and export sales of boxed beef cuts including branded product, and sales of domestic boxed lamb cuts including branded product, imported boxed lamb cuts including branded product and lamb carcasses to AMS.

Cattle and swine information would be reported to AMS according to the schedule directed by the Act and these proposed regulations with purchases of swine reported three times each day, purchases of cattle twice each day, and sales of domestic and exported boxed beef cuts, including branded product, reported twice each day. Lamb information would be reported to AMS according to the schedule mandated by these proposed regulations with purchases of lambs reported twice each day and sales and purchases of lamb carcasses reported once each day.

Previous week purchases of imported lamb carcasses and boxed lamb cuts including branded boxed lamb cuts would be reported once weekly on the first reporting day of the week and sales of imported boxed lamb cuts including branded boxed lamb cuts would be reported once weekly on the first reporting day of the week. The SIC size standard classifies a small business in the meat packing industry as a company with less than employees.

Although it is common in the red meat industry for larger companies to own several plants, some of which may employ less than people, safest strategy for binary options 60 seconds companies and lamb importers with a total slaughter plant employment at all locations of less than are considered to be small businesses for the purposes of this proposed rule even though individual plants are forexpros indices futures to report as provided by the Act and these proposed regulations.

For any calendar year, Federally inspected beef plants required to report Start Printed Page include those that slaughtered an average ofhead per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years. Also included are processing plants that did not slaughter cattle during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years but are determined to be a packer by the Secretary based on the capacity of the processing plant.

By this definition, approximately 30 individual beef packing companies representing 49 individual plants would be required to report information to AMS. Based on the SBA size earn money as webmaster, 10 of these 30 beef packing companies would be considered small businesses, representing 10 plants that would be required to report.

The figure of 49 plants required to report represents 6. For any calendar year, Federally inspected pork plants required to report include those that slaughtered an average ofhead per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years. Also included are processing plants that did not slaughter swine during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years but are determined to be a packer by the Secretary based on the capacity of the processing plant. By this definition, approximately 29 individual pork packing companies representing a total of 50 individual plants, would be required to report information to AMS.

Based on the SBA size standard, 15 of these 29 pork packing companies would be considered small businesses, representing 15 individual plants that would be required to report. The figure of 50 plants required to report represents 6. For any calendar year, lamb packers required to report include those that slaughtered or processed the equivalent of 75, head per year during each of the immediately preceding 5 calendar years.

Also included are processing plants that did not slaughter or process an average of 75, lambs during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years but are determined to be forex market status packer by the Secretary based on the capacity of the processing plant.

For any calendar interest rate floor put option, an importer that imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years would be required to report.

Additionally, a lamb importer that did not import an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on the volume of lamb imports, would also be required to report. By this definition, 16 individual companies including importers representing a total of 14 plants, would be required to report information.

Based on the SBA size standard, all 14 of these lamb plants would be considered small businesses with none employing more than people. The figure of 14 plants required to report represents 2.

Nearly all of the remaining This proposed rule requires the reporting of specific market information regarding the buying and selling of livestock and livestock products.

The information would be reported to AMS by electronic means. Electronic reporting would involve the transfer of data from a packer's or importer's electronic recordkeeping system to a centrally located AMS electronic database. Once the required information has been entered into the AMS database, it would be aggregated and processed into various market reports which would be released according to the daily and weekly time schedule set forth in these proposed regulations.

Information regarding the specific characteristics of each reported sale must be supplied by lot without aggregation.

In order to adequately describe and categorize each transaction, as many as fifteen separate pieces of information are required to be reported. This information includes price, head count, weight, quality grade, and yield grade. The frequency respondents are required to report is 1 to 3 times each reporting day depending on the species and type of information required.

Inan average ofcattle were slaughtered each week. Beef plants identified as small businesses contributed an estimated 7, head per day, on average, to this weekly slaughter with each business contributing an estimated head per day on average based upon publicly available information.

At a maximum, if each of these cattle were purchased in lots of one head each and 15 pieces of information were required for each purchase, as many as 10, individual pieces of information would have to be reported by each small beef packing plant each reporting day. In addition, each of the small beef packing plants is required to report all domestic and export sales of boxed beef cuts including branded product.

On average, each of these small entities slaughters an estimated head per day. Since most beef carcasses are usually fabricated at the point of slaughter, each of these small beef packers would be processing about beef cattle into boxed beef cuts each day. Normally, boxed beef cut sales average about boxes per transaction and each head of cattle equals 7 boxes. This would represent 25 separate transactions which, if 15 pieces of information were required per transaction, would translate into pieces of information reported by each small beef packing business producing boxed beef each business day.

This figure was calculated by estimating the time required to complete the necessary data submission and factoring by the number of times reporting is required per day for an estimated total of reporting days in a year see Paperwork Reduction Act section for a complete, detailed discussion.

On average each week in1. Pork plants identified as small businesses contributed an estimated 17, head per day to this weekly slaughter with each business contributing on average an estimated 1, head per day, based on publicly available figures. If each of these head were purchased in lots of one head each and 15 pieces of information were required for each purchase, 16, pieces of information would have to be reported by each small pork packing plant per day.

This estimate does not include costs associated with reporting sales of pork Start Printed Page products which would not be required to be reported. Sheep slaughter in averaged 70, head per week. All lamb plants contributing to this weekly slaughter are identified as small businesses.

On average, these lamb plants each slaughtered an estimated 2, head per day, based on publicly available information. If each of these lambs were purchased one at a time and 15 pieces of information were required for each transaction, 33, pieces of information would have to be reported by each small lamb packing plant. In addition, all lamb plants processing the equivalent of 75, lambs per year during each of the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, which are required to report, qualify as small businesses.

These plants would be required by regulation to report information on their sales of boxed lamb cuts. It is estimated that negotiated sales comprise the majority of all boxed lamb cut sales. Based on publicly available information, lamb plants processing lamb into boxed lamb cuts, on average, process the equivalent of an estimated 1, head per day. It is normal business practice that these lamb cuts are sold in units averaging between boxes per transaction, representing about head of lambs about 3 boxes per head.

At 1, head per day, there could be as many as transactions per day per reporting packer. Assuming that each of these transactions required 15 pieces of information per transaction, 2, pieces of information would have to be reported by each small lamb packing plant.

In any calendar year, importers of lamb meat products that imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years would be required to report the details of their purchases and sales of boxed lamb cuts including branded product and their purchases of lamb carcasses to AMS on a weekly basis.

Additionally, in any calendar year, lamb importers that did not import an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on the volume of lamb imports would be required to report the above information. AMS estimates that each of the 5 importers required to report import, on average, metric tons of lamb products per week. AMS estimates that the majority of these imports are contracted over a period of time, usually from months, possibly as much as 12 months.

Price would normally be negotiated at the time the contract was entered into along with the particular cut of lamb and the volume. During the time the contract is in effect, prices would not be expected to change from week to week but quantities might.

Assuming that an average importer would purchase an average of 10 different cut styles, each at a single price, from an average of 2 suppliers, AMS estimates that the weekly reporting burden for each importer would include information for up to 20 different transactions. Each transaction would require 7 pieces of information including, price, quantity, cut, trim, weight, delivery date, and nation of origin, for a total of separate pieces of information.

Normally, few packers buy livestock or livestock products in one head or one head equivalent lots. Similarly, few importers buy imported carcasses or imported lamb cuts in less than carlot volumes.

Therefore, the estimated reporting burden described here would reflect the maximum reporting burden on small businesses. Each packer and importer required to report information to the Secretary must maintain such records as are necessary to verify the accuracy of the information provided to AMS.

This includes information regarding price, class, head count, weight, quality grade, yield grade, and other factors necessary to adequately describe each transaction. These records are already kept by the industry. Reporting packers and importers are required by these proposed regulations to maintain and to make available the original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records associated with any transaction relating to the purchase, sale, pricing, transportation, delivery, weighing, slaughter, or carcass characteristics of all livestock.

Reporting packers and importers are also required to maintain copies of the information provided to AMS. All of the above-mentioned paperwork must be kept for at least 2 years. Packers and importers are not required to report any other new or additional information that they do not generally have available or maintain. Further, they would not be required to keep any information that would prove unduly burdensome to maintain. The paperwork burden that would be imposed on the packers and importers is further discussed in the section entitled Paperwork Reduction Act that follows.

In addition, we have not identified any relevant Federal rules that are currently in effect that duplicate, overlap, or conflict with this rule. AMS will continue to report market information collected through its voluntary market reporting program provided the collection of such information does not duplicate the information collection requirements of this proposed rule.

Professional skills required for recordkeeping under this proposed rule would not be different than those already employed by the reporting entities. Reporting would be accomplished using computers or similar electronic means.

AMS believes the skills needed to maintain such systems are already in place in those small businesses affected by this proposed rule. Comments are requested on the extent to which employees of these small businesses already possess the skills required to report and maintain recordkeeping systems. This proposed rule as directed by the Act requires cattle and swine packing plants of a certain size to report information to the Secretary at prescribed times throughout the day and week.

Further, lamb slaughter and processing plants and lamb importers of a certain size are required by these proposed regulations to report information to the Secretary at prescribed times throughout the day and week. These proposed regulations already exempt many small businesses by the establishment of daily slaughter, processing, and import capacity thresholds.

Based on figures published by the National Agricultural Statistics Service NASSthere were cattle, swine, and lamb Federally inspected slaughter plants operating in the U. AMS estimates that approximately 49 cattle plants would be required to report information 6.

AMS recognizes that a major economic impact of this proposed rule on those small entities required to report involves the manner in which information must be reported to the Secretary. However, in developing these proposed regulations AMS did consider other means by which the objectives of this proposed rule could be accomplished, including reporting the required information by telephone, facsimile and regular mail.

AMS cannot envision an alternative to the proposed method of data transmission that would be less burdensome to small businesses. Therefore, AMS is expressly seeking comment from those small businesses covered by this proposed rule regarding the burden imposed on them by this program. Specifically, AMS is seeking comments on the reporting format, including alternatives from small businesses that would be less burdensome.

AMS will work actively with those small businesses required to report to minimize the burden on them to the maximum extent practicable. This proposed rule contains recordkeeping and submission requirements that are subject to public comment and review by the Office of Management and Budget OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act of PRA 44 U.

In accordance with 5 CFR Partwe include the description of the reporting and recordkeeping requirements and an estimate of the annual burden on packers required to report information under this proposed rule. Because there is insufficient time for a normal clearance procedure, AMS has requested emergency processing and received temporary approval from OMB for the use of the information collection and recordkeeping requirements that we propose to use to implement the mandatory livestock reporting program on an expedited basis.

Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of The information collection and recordkeeping requirements in this regulation would be essential to establishing and implementing a mandatory program of livestock and livestock products reporting.

Based on the information available, AMS estimates that there would be 49 beef packer plants, 50 pork packer plants, 11 lamb packer plants and 5 lamb importers that would be required to report market information under this proposed rule.

These companies have similar recordkeeping systems and business operation practices and conduct their operations in a similar manner. AMS believes that all of the information required under this proposed rule can be collected from existing materials and systems and that these materials and systems can be adapted to satisfy the proposed forms.

The PRA also requires AMS to measure the recordkeeping burden. Under this proposed rule, each packer and importer required to report must maintain and make available upon request for 2 years, such records as would be necessary to verify the accuracy of the information required to be reported. These records include original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records associated with any transaction relating to the purchase, sale, pricing, transportation, delivery, weighing, slaughter, or carcass characteristics of all livestock.

Under this proposed rule, the electronic data files which the packers would be required to utilize when submitting information to AMS would have to be maintained as these files provide the best record of compliance.

The recordkeeping burden includes the amount of time needed to store and maintain records. AMS estimates that, since records of original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records associated with any transaction relating to the purchase, sale, pricing, transportation, delivery, weighing, slaughter, or carcass characteristics of all livestock are stored and maintained as a matter of normal business practice by these companies for a period in excess of 2 years, additional annual costs would be nominal.

This estimate includes the cost of electronic data storage media, backup electronic data storage media, and backup software required to maintain an estimated annual electronic recordkeeping and backup burden of 42 megabytes, on average, per respondent. AMS welcomes any additional information from the industry regarding such costs. In this proposed rule, information collection requirements include the submission of the required information on a daily and weekly basis in the standard format provided in the following forms: Lamb packers would utilize seven of these forms Appendix Start Printed Page C when reporting information to AMS including two for daily lamb reporting, three for weekly lamb reporting, one for daily and weekly boxed lamb cuts reporting and one for daily and weekly lamb carcass reporting.

These information collection requirements have been designed to minimize disruption to the normal business practices of the affected entities. Each of these forms requires the minimal amount of information necessary to properly describe each reportable transaction, as required under this proposed rule.

The number of forms is a result of an attempt to reduce the complexity of each form. Live Cattle Daily Report Current Established Prices: Public reporting burden for collection of information is estimated to be. Packer processing plants required to report information on live cattle purchases to the Secretary. Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: Live Cattle Daily Report Committed and Delivered. Live Cattle Weekly Report Forward Contract and Packer-Owned: Live Cattle Weekly Report Formula Purchases: Cattle Premiums and Discounts Weekly Report: Packer processing plants required to report information on domestic and export boxed beef cut sales to the Secretary.

Packer processing plants required to report information on live swine purchases to the Secretary. Swine Noncarcass Merit Premium Weekly Report: Live Lamb Daily Report Current Established Prices: Packer processing plants required to report information on live lamb purchases to the Secretary.

Live Lamb Daily Report Committed and Delivered Lambs: Live Lamb Weekly Report Packer-Owned: Live Lamb Weekly Report Formula and Forward Contract Purchases: Lamb Premiums and Discounts Weekly Report: Packer processing plants and importers required to report information on boxed lamb cut purchases and sales to the Secretary.

Estimated Number of Respondents: Packer processing plants and importers required to report information on lamb carcass purchases and sales to the Secretary. Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents by Species: Live Cattle and Boxed Beef: Live Lambs, Boxed Lamb, and Lamb Carcasses: AMS is soliciting comments from all interested parties concerning the information collection and recordkeeping requirements contained in this proposed rule. Comments are specifically invited on the following: Comments concerning the information collection and recordkeeping requirements contained in this action should reference OMB number together with the date and page number of this issue of the Federal Register and should be sent in duplicate to John E.

Comments sent to the above location should also be sent to the Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D. All responses to this action will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval.

All comments will become a matter of public record. A day comment period is provided for interested persons to comment on this proposed rule. The day period is deemed appropriate in order to provide a sufficient amount of time to comment while conforming, as closely as possible, to the time-frames contemplated by the Act.

For the reasons set forth in the preamble, it is proposed that Chapter I of Title 7 of the CFR be amended by adding Part 57 to read as follows:. A packer or importer shall report all information required under this part on an individual lot basis.

Whenever a packer or importer is required to report information on transactions of livestock and livestock products under this part by a set time, all covered transactions up to within one half hour of the reporting deadline shall be reported.

Transactions completed during the one half hour prior to the previous reporting time, but not reported in the previous report, shall be reported at the next scheduled reporting time. The Secretary shall make information obtained under this part available to the public only in a manner that:.

Prior to the publication of any information required under this part, the Secretary may make reasonable adjustments in information reported by packers and importers to reflect price aberrations or other unusual or unique occurrences that the Secretary determines would distort the published information to the detriment of producers, packers, or other market participants. Livestock and livestock products committed to a packer, or importer, or purchased, sold, or slaughtered by a packer or importer on a weekend day or holiday shall be reported to the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of this part and reported by the Secretary on the immediately following reporting day.

A packer shall not be required to report such actions more than once on the immediately following reporting day. Whenever information is required to be reported under this part, it shall be reported by electronic means and shall adhere to a standardized format established by the Secretary to achieve the objectives of this part, except in emergencies or in cases when an alternative method is agreeable to the entity required to report and AMS.

Each packer or importer required to report information to the Secretary under the Act and this part shall maintain for 2 years and make available to the Secretary the following information on request:. A record of a purchase of a lot of cattle, a unit of boxed beef cuts, a lot of swine, or a lot of lambs by a packer shall evidence whether the purchase occurred:. A record of a purchase or sale by a packer of lamb carcasses and cuts, or by an importer of lamb carcasses and cuts shall evidence time and date the purchase or sale occurred.

Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Livestock and Seed Program, Livestock and Meat Standardization Branch, Room South Building STOPPO Box Washington, D. You may inspect a copy of the above in RoomSouth Building, 14th and Independence Ave. These characteristics are categorized by quality grade including ungraded or no-rolltrim specification, weight, breed, and packaging. Additionally, in the case of a cattle processing plant that did not slaughter cattle during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, it shall be considered a packer if the Secretary determines the processing plant should be considered a packer under this subpart after considering its capacity.

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The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary at least two times each reporting day not later than Central Time and not later than 2: Central Time the following information for each cattle type, inclusive since the last reporting, categorized to clearly delineate domestic from imported market purchases as described in The Secretary shall make the information available to the public not less frequently than three times each reporting day.

The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary, on the first reporting day of each week, not later than 9: Central Time, the following information applicable to the prior slaughter week, categorized to clearly delineate domestic from imported market purchases:. Central Time, the range and average of intended premiums and discounts associated with weight, quality grade, yield grade, or type of cattle that are expected to be in effect for the current slaughter week.

The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary, on the first reporting day of each week, by 8: Central Time, the following information for cattle purchased through a formula marketing arrangement and slaughtered during the prior slaughter week, categorized to clearly delineate domestic from imported market purchases:.

The Secretary shall make available to the public the information obtained under paragraphs aband c of this section on the first reporting day of the current slaughter by The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary at least twice each reporting day once by The Secretary shall make available to the public the information obtained under paragraph a of this section not less frequently than twice each reporting day.

Whenever the packer changes the manner in which the average lean percentage is calculated, the packer shall make available to the Secretary the underlying data, applicable methodology and formulae, and supporting materials used to determine the average lean percentage, which the Secretary may convert either to the carcass measurements or lean percentage of the swine of the individual packer to correlate to a common percent lean measurement; and the total slaughter quantity, which shall be equal to the total number of swine slaughtered during the applicable reporting period, including all types of purchases and packer-owned swine.

The average net price includes any sum deducted from the price per hundredweight paid to a producer that reflects the repayment of a balance owed by the producer to the packer, or the accumulation of a balance to later be repaid by the packer to the producer, less all discounts.

The total amount paid shall include any sum deducted from the price per hundredweight paid to a producer that reflects the repayment of a balance owed by the producer to the packer or the accumulation of a balance to later be repaid by the packer to the producer.

The total amount paid shall exclude any sum earlier paid to a producer that must be repaid to the packer. Other market formula purchase. Additionally, in the case of a swine processing plant that did not slaughter swine during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, it shall be considered a packer if the Secretary determines the processing plant should be considered a packer under this subpart after considering its capacity. Swine or pork market formula purchase. Information required under this section for packer-owned swine shall include quantity and carcass characteristics, but not price.

If information regarding the type of purchase is required under this section, the information shall be reported according to the numbers and percentages of each type of purchase:.

The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer shall report to the Secretary for each business day of the packer not later than 7: The Secretary shall publish the information obtained under this paragraph in a prior day report not later than 8: The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary not later than The packer shall report information on such purchases on the first reporting day or scheduled reporting time on a reporting day after the price has been determined.

The Secretary shall publish the information obtained under this paragraph in the morning report as soon as practicable, but not later than Central Time, on each reporting day. The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary not later than 2: The Secretary shall publish the information obtained under this paragraph in the afternoon report as soon as practicable, but not later than 3: Not later than 4: A packer shall maintain and make available to a producer, on request, a current listing of the dollar values per hundred pounds of carcass weight of each noncarcass merit premium used by the packer during the current or the prior slaughter week.

The Secretary shall publish the information obtained under this subsection as soon as practicable, but not later than 5: Central Time, on the first reporting day of each week. For any calendar year, the term includes only those that imported an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years. Additionally, the term includes those that did not import an average of 5, metric tons of lamb meat products during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years, if the Secretary determines that the person should be considered an importer based on their volume of lamb imports.

For any calendar year, the term includes only a Federally inspected lamb processing plant which slaughtered or processed the equivalent of an average of 75, head of lambs per year during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years.

Additionally, the term includes a lamb processing plant that did not slaughter or process an average of 75, lambs during the immediately preceding 5 calendar years if the Secretary determines that the processing plant should be considered a packer after considering its capacity.

The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary at least twice each reporting day not later than The Secretary shall make the information available to the public not less than twice each reporting day. The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary on the first reporting day of each week, not later than 9: Central Time, the following information applicable to the prior slaughter week categorized to clearly delineate domestic from imported market purchases: Central Time, the following information applicable to the current slaughter week.

The range and average of intended premiums and discounts associated with weight, quality grade, or yield grade, categorized to clearly delineate domestic from imported purchases. The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary on the first reporting day of each week, not later than 9 a.

Central Time, the following information for lambs purchased through a formula marketing arrangement and slaughtered during the prior week:. Central Time, the following information for lambs purchased through a forward contract arrangement and slaughtered during the prior week:.

The Secretary shall make available to the public the information obtained under paragraphs abcand d of this section on the first reporting day of the current slaughter week. The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer shall report to the Secretary each reporting day the following information on total domestic lamb carcass transactions not later than 3: The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer shall report to the Secretary each reporting day the following information on domestic total boxed lamb cut sales not later than 2: The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each lamb importer shall report to the Secretary on the first reporting day of each week the following information applicable to the prior week for imported lamb carcass purchases not later than The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each lamb importer shall report to the Secretary on the first reporting day of each week the following information applicable to the prior week for imported boxed lamb cut purchases not later than The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each lamb importer shall report to the Secretary on the first reporting day of each week the following information applicable to the prior week for imported boxed lamb cut sales not later than The Secretary shall make available to the public the information required to be reported under paragraphs a and b of this section not less frequently than once each reporting day and the information required to be reported under paragraphs cdand e of this section on the first reporting day of the current slaughter week.

The information collection and recordkeeping requirements of this part have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget OMB under the provisions of 44 U. Chapter 35 and have been assigned OMB Control Number The following Appendices will not appear in the Code of Federal Regulations. The following 6 forms referenced in Subpart B Part 57 would be used by persons required to report electronically transmitted mandatory market information on domestic and import sales and purchases of live cattle and boxed beef to the Agricultural Marketing Service.

LS Boxed Beef Daily Report. The following 3 forms referenced in Subpart C of Part 57 would be used by persons required to report electronically transmitted mandatory market information on domestic and import sales and purchases of live swine to the Agricultural Marketing Service. The following 7 forms referenced in Subpart D of Part 57 would be used by persons required to report electronically transmitted mandatory market information on domestic and import sales and purchases of live lamb and boxed lamb to the Agricultural Marketing Service.

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