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Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 15721 2014-06196 Air Force Air Force Department NOTICES Grants of Exclusive Patent Licenses, 15732 2014-05617 Army Army Department See Engineers Corps NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Energy, Water, and Solid Waste Sustainability Initiatives; Fort Bliss, TX and New Mexico, 15732-15733 2014-06176 Blind or Severely Disabled, Committee for Purchase From People Who Are See Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled Centers Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 15748-15750 2014-06218 2014-06219 Centers Medicare Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services NOTICES Medicare Programs: Request for Applications for the Medicare Care Choices Model, 15750-15751 2014-06158 Coast Guard Coast Guard RULES Drawbridge Operations: Broad Creek, Laurel, DE, 15686-15688 2014-06264 Chef Menteur Pass; Lake Catherine, LA, 15688-15689 2014-06260 Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans, LA, 15689 2014-06265 Sacramento River, Sacramento, CA, 15688 2014-06266 Regulated Navigation Areas:

Piscataqua River Channel Obstruction near Memorial Bridge, Piscataqua River, Portsmouth, NH, 15689-15691 2014-06229 Safety Zones: Barnegat Inlet, Barnegat Light, NJ, 15692-15694 2014-06247 Special Local Regulations: Annual Marine Events on the Colorado River between Davis Dam, Bullhead City, AZ, and Headgate Dam, Parker, AZ, within the San Diego Captain of the Port Zone, 15685-15686 2014-06251 PROPOSED RULES Special Local Regulations: Low Country Splash, Wando River, Cooper River, and Charleston Harbor;

Charleston, SC, 15712-15715 2014-06268 Stuart Sailfish Regatta, Indian River; Stuart, FL, 15715-15718 2014-06272 NOTICES Requests for Nominations: Eastern Great Lakes and Regional Sub-Committees; Area Maritime Security Advisory Committee, 15752-15753 2014-06253 Commerce Commerce Department See Foreign-Trade Zones Board See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Committee for Purchase Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled NOTICES Procurement Lists;

Additions and Deletions, 15731-15732 2014-06180 Community Living Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Certification on Maintenance of Effort for the Title III and Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program Expenditures, 15751-15752 2014-06201 Comptroller Comptroller of the Currency RULES Rules Transferred to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; OCC Address Change, 15639-15641 2014-05826 Defense Department Defense Department See Air Force Department See Army Department See Engineers Corps Energy Department Energy Department See Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission RULES Alternative Fuel Transportation Program:

Alternative Fueled Vehicle Credit Program Modification and Other Amendments, 15882-15907 2014-06044 NOTICES Applications to Export Electric Energy: Emera Energy Services Subsidiary No.6, LLC, 15734-15735 2014-06191 Emera Energy Services Subsidiary No.7, LLC, 15735-15736 2014-06190 Emera Energy Services Subsidiary No.8, LLC, 15735 2014-06188 Meetings: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 15736-15737 2014-06197 Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office NOTICES H2 Refuel H-Prize Draft Guidelines, 15737 2014-06193 Engineers Engineers Corps NOTICES Charter Amendments:

Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committees, 15733-15734 2014-06175 Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency RULES Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Disapprovals: Nevada; Infrastructure Requirements for Lead (Pb), 15697-15702 2014-06053 Tolerance Requirements; Exemptions: Heat-killed Burkholderia spp. Strain A396 Cells and Spent Fermentation Media, 15702-15704 2014-06228 PROPOSED RULES Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:

Florida; Infrastructure Requirement (Visibility) for the 1997 and 2006 PM, and 2008 8-Hour Ozone NAAQS, 15718-15720 2014-06225 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Requirements for Certified Applicators Using 1080 Collars for Livestock Protection, 15739-15740 2014-06221 Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Objections: State Operating Permits for Consolidated Environmental Management, Inc. - Nucor Steel Louisiana, 15740-15741 2014-06224 Environmental Impact Statements;

Availability, etc., 15741 2014-06230 Meetings: Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee, 15741-15742 2014-06227 Orders for Pesticide Registrations; Amendments to Terminate Certain Uses; Cancellations: Methiocarb, Lambda-Cyhalothrin, Permethrin and Prodiamine, 15742-15743 2014-05680 Export Import Export-Import Bank NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Broker Registration Form, 15744 2014-06147 Letter of Interest Application, 15743-15744 2014-06146 Applications for Long-Term Loan or Financial Guarantee in Excess of $100 Million, 15744-15745 2014-06179 Farm Service Farm Service Agency NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;

Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Emergency Conservation Program and Biomass Crop Assistance Program, 15721-15722 2014-06192 Federal Aviation Federal Aviation Administration RULES Airworthiness Directives: Continental Motors, Inc. Reciprocating Engines with Superior Air Parts, Inc.

(SAP)Cylinder Assemblies Installed, 15673-15675 2014-06198 M7 Aerospace LLC Airplanes, 15657-15660 2014-05613 Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan Engines, 15665-15667 2014-04952 The Boeing Company Airplanes, 15651-15657, 15660-15665, 15667-15673 2014-04852 2014-05415 2014-06004 2014-06153 2014-06155 Amendment of VOR Federal Airway V-625: Arizona, 15676 2014-05897 Amendment of VOR Federal Airway V-626: Utah, 15676-15677 2014-05896 Modification, Revocation, and Establishment of Area Navigation Routes: Charlotte, NC, 15677-15679 2014-05894 Prohibition Against Certain Flights within the Tripoli Flight Information Region: Extension of Expiration Date, 15679-15680 2014-06199 PROPOSED RULES Airworthiness Directives: Pratt and Whitney Canada Corp. Turboprop Engines, 15707-15708 2014-06163 Federal Communications Federal Communications Commission NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 15745-15746 2014-06261 Federal Election Federal Election Commission NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 15746 2014-06097 Federal Energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission PROPOSED RULES Payment of Dividends from Funds Included in Capital Accounts, 15708-15712 2014-06162 NOTICES Filings, 15737-15738 2014-06213 Initial Market-Based Rate Filings Including Requests for Blanket Section 204 Authorizations: KMC Thermo, LLC, 15738-15739 2014-06214 Petitions for Temporary Waivers: AES Hawaii, Inc., 15739 2014-06343 Federal Motor Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Motor Carrier Safety Grants Programs, 15787-15791 2014-06166 Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications: Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders, 15791-15793 2014-06160 Vision, 15793-15794 2014-06167 Federal Railroad Federal Railroad Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 15795-15797 2014-06159 Federal Reserve Federal Reserve System NOTICES Changes in Bank Control: Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company, 15746 2014-06207 Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Savings and Loan Holding Companies, 15746-15747 2014-06208 Federal Trade Federal Trade Commission RULES Freedom of Information Act, 15680-15685 2014-05955 Federal Transit Federal Transit Administration NOTICES Buy America Waivers: Pad and Rubber Boot of a Concrete Block for a Low Vibration Track System, 15797 2014-06220 Fish Fish and Wildlife Service NOTICES Endangered Species: Marine Mammals Permit Applications, 15768-15769 2014-06217 Foreign Trade Foreign-Trade Zones Board NOTICES Applications for Production Authority: PBR, Inc. d/b/a SKAPS Industries, Foreign-Trade Zone 26, Atlanta, GA, 15725-15726 2014-06248 Toray Carbon Fibers America, Inc., Foreign-Trade Zone 83, Huntsville, AL, 15725 2014-06252 Establishments of Foreign-Trade Zones under Alternative Site Frameworks: Ontario County, NY; Grant of Authority, 15726 2014-06242 Forest Forest Service NOTICES Meetings: Land Between the Lakes Advisory Board, 15723 2014-06171 Lyon-Mineral Resource Advisory Committee, 15722 2014-06173 Tuolumne-Mariposa Counties Resource Advisory Committee, 15723 2014-06164 Oil and Gas Leasing: Bridger-Teton National Forest; Wyoming, 15723-15725 2014-05891 Health and Human Health and Human Services Department See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services See Community Living Administration PROPOSED RULES Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Exchange and Insurance Market Standards for 2015 and Beyond, 15808-15879 2014-06134 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 15747 2014-06145 Homeland Homeland Security Department See Coast Guard Housing Housing and Urban Development Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Rural Innovation Fund Evaluation, 15753-15754 2014-06246 Federal Properties Suitable as Facilities to Assist the Homeless, 15754-15766 2014-06052 Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships, 15766-15768 2014-06243 Inter-American Inter-American Foundation NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 15768 2014-06348 Interior Interior Department See Fish and Wildlife Service See Land Management Bureau See National Park Service International Trade Com International Trade Commission NOTICES Antidumping and Countervailing Orders; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.: Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel Line Pipe from China, 15776-15777 2014-06178 Complaints: Certain Sulfentrazone, Sulfentrazone Compositions, and Processes for Making Sulfentrazone, 15777-15778 2014-06177 Meetings; Sunshine Act, 15778 2014-06321 Land Land Management Bureau NOTICES Applications for Withdrawal: Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark; WY, 15770-15771 2014-06184 Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Kremmling Field Office, CO, 15772-15773 2014-06183 Proposed Long Canyon Mine Project, Elko County, NV, 15773-15774 2014-06112 Thompson Creek Mine Plan of Operations, etc., Custer and Bannock Counties, ID, 15771-15772 2014-06113 Meetings: Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, 15774-15775 2014-06186 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NOTICES Exclusive Licenses, 15778-15779 2014-06156 2014-06157 Meetings: NASA Advisory Council; Aeronautics Committee, 15779 2014-06202 National Highway National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 15797-15800 2014-06152 2014-06215 Importation Eligibility; Petitions: 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO Passenger Cars, 15802-15804 2014-06168 Nonconforming 2010 Ferrari California Passenger Cars, 15800-15802 2014-06165 National Oceanic National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOTICES Meetings: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 15726-15727 2014-06169 2014-06216 Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, 15727-15729 2014-06170 Permits: Take of Anadromous Fish; Endangered and Threatened Species, 15729-15731 2014-06154 National Park National Park Service RULES Special Regulations: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Bicycling, 15694-15697 2014-06239 NOTICES National Register of Historic Places: Pending Nominations and Related Actions, 15775-15776 2014-06185 Nuclear Regulatory Nuclear Regulatory Commission NOTICES Charter Renewals: Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes, 15779-15780 2014-06200 Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Board, 15804 2014-06151 Securities Securities and Exchange Commission NOTICES Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: National Securities Clearing Corp., 15780-15782 2014-06187 Small Business Small Business Administration RULES 504 and 7(a) Loan Programs Updates, 15641-15651 2014-06237 NOTICES Disaster Declarations: South Carolina, 15782 2014-06211 Social Social Security Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 15782-15786 2014-06148 State Department State Department NOTICES Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition: Andrew Wyeth -- Looking Out, Looking In, 15786 2014-06203 Boichot Vases, 15787 2014-06205 Degas/Cassatt, 15786-15787 2014-06204 Preview of the Twelve Caesars Tazze, 15786 2014-06206 Surface Transportation Surface Transportation Board NOTICES Acquisition Exemptions: RMW Ventures, LLC and Big Four Terminal Railroad, LLC, etc.; Corporate Family Transaction, 15804 2014-06210 Continuance in Control Exemptions: Spencer N. Wendelin; RMW Ventures, LLC, et al., 15804-15805 2014-06195 Release of Waybill Data, 15805 2014-06194 Transportation Department Transportation Department See Federal Aviation Administration See Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration See Federal Railroad Administration See Federal Transit Administration See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration See Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation See Surface Transportation Board RULES Organization and Delegation of Powers and Duties, 15704-15706 2014-06172 NOTICES Applications: Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits, 15787 2014-06161 Treasury Treasury Department See Comptroller of the Currency Veteran Affairs Veterans Affairs Department RULES Criteria for a Catastrophically Disabled Determination for Purposes of Enrollment; Correction, 15697 2014-06222 Separate Parts In This Issue Part II Health and Human Services Department, 15808-15879 2014-06134 Part III Energy Department, 15882-15907 2014-06044 Reader Aids Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this page for phone numbers, online resources, finding aids, reminders, and notice of recently enacted public laws. To subscribe to the Federal Register Table of Contents LISTSERV electronic mailing list, go to http://listserv.access.gpo.gov and select Online mailing list archives, FEDREGTOC-L, Join or leave the list (or change settings); then follow the instructions. 79 55 Friday, March 21, 2014 Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Marketing Service 7 CFR Part 1145 [Doc. No. AMS-DA-14-0018] Extension of Dairy Forward Pricing Program AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This final rule extends the Dairy Forward Pricing Program in accordance with the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill). The Dairy Forward Pricing Program was first authorized in section 1502 of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. The program allows handlers regulated under the Federal milk marketing order program to pay producers and cooperative associations in accordance with the terms of a forward contract and not have to pay the minimum Federal order uniform price for milk. Establishing new contracts under the Dairy Forward Pricing Program has been prohibited since the expiration of the program on September 30, 2013. The 2014 Farm Bill (H.R. 2642) was signed into law on February 7, 2014, and extends the program to allow new contracts to be entered into until September 30, 2018. Any forward contract entered into up and until the September 30, 2018, deadline is subject to a September 30, 2021, expiration date to meet the terms of the contract. DATES: Effective March 24, 2014. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roger Cryan, Director, Economics Division, USDA/AMS/Dairy Programs, Stop 0229—Room 2753-S, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-0231,

(202)720-7091, email address: *roger.cryan@ams.usda.gov.* SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final rule extends the Dairy Forward Pricing Program

(DFPP)in accordance with the 2014 Farm Bill. The 2008 Food, Conservation and Energy Act (2008 Farm Bill) (Pub. L. 110-246) initially established the DFPP, which prohibited new forward contracts from being entered into after September 30, 2012, and no forward contracts entered into under the program extending beyond September 30, 2015 (7 U.S.C. 8772(e)). Passage of the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012,”

(ATRA)(Pub. L. 112-240), signed into law on January 2, 2013, revised the program to allow new contracts to be entered into until September 30, 2013. New contracts have been prohibited since then. The DFPP (7 U.S.C. 8772, 7 CFR 1145) allows handlers, under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937,

(AMAA)(7 U.S.C. 601-612), to pay producers or cooperative associations of producers a negotiated price, rather than the Federal order minimum blend price for producer milk if subject to conditions and terms of a forward contract, provided the volume of such milk does not exceed the handler's Class II, III, and IV utilization for the month on the order that regulates the milk. The program applies to producer milk regulated under Federal milk marketing orders that is not classified as Class I milk or milk otherwise intended for fluid use and that is in the current of interstate or foreign commerce or directly burdens, obstructs, or affects interstate or foreign commerce of Federally regulated milk. The Federal milk marketing order program consists of 10 Federal milk marketing orders (7 CFR parts 1001-1135). This document provides notice that producers and cooperative associations of producers may now enter into forward price contracts under the DFPP through September 30, 2018, and that all terms of the forward contract must expire prior to September 30, 2021. All other provisions and requirements of the program as provided for in the final rule published October 31, 2008 (73 FR 64868) are still in effect. Discussion of Rules Applicable to Program Section 1502 of the 2008 Farm Bill required the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Dairy Forward Pricing Program. Authorization for this program expired on September 30, 2013, under the provisions of the ATRA. The DFPP allows a handler to forward contract for an amount of milk up to the volume of Class II, III, and IV milk pooled on the order by the handler under the AMAA, as amended, during a month and be exempt from the minimum Federal order blend price provisions for that milk. USDA, including Market Administrator personnel, does not determine the terms of forward contracts or enforce negotiated prices. For producers who consider forward contracting as a risk-management tool, the “benchmark” price for milk is the minimum Federal order blend price that they would receive in the absence of a forward contract. It is reasonable to expect a producer to negotiate a forward contract that would approximate the minimum blend price plus applicable premiums averaged over the forward contract period. Over time, it is reasonable to expect to see forward contract prices paid to producers below the applicable minimum order blend price in some months and above the minimum order blend price in others. Participation in the dairy forward pricing program is voluntary for dairy farmers, dairy farmer cooperatives, and handlers. Handlers may not require producer participation in a forward pricing program as a condition for accepting milk. A producer or cooperative association may continue to have its milk priced under the minimum payment provisions of the applicable milk order. Any “handler” defined in 7 CFR § 1000.9 is eligible to enter into a forward contract(s) with producers or cooperatives of producers. As defined in that section, “handler” includes not only the operator of a pool plant or nonpool plant, but also a broker serving as a handler as provided in § 1000.9(b), a proprietary handler, and a cooperative association acting as a handler with respect to non-member milk delivered to a pool plant or diverted to a nonpool plant. Nothing in this regulation affects any contractual arrangements between a cooperative association and its members. A handler's combined Class II, III, and IV producer milk utilization is defined in 7 CFR part 1145 as the handler's “eligible milk.” In the case of a multi-plant handler, the handler's Class II, III, and IV producer milk utilization will be combined together for all of the handler's milk regulated under one milk marketing order. A handler will only be exempt from paying the milk marketing order's minimum blend price on its volume of “eligible milk.” If a handler enters into forward contracts for more than the eligible milk volume (“over-contract” milk), the handler must notify the Market Administrator. If the handler fails to notify the Market Administrator of payment adjustments, the Market Administrator will prorate the over-contract milk to each producer and cooperative association having a contract with the handler. Although handlers participating in the program will not be required to pay producers and cooperative associations the minimum uniform blend or component prices for contract milk, they must continue to account to the pool for all milk they receive at the respective milk marketing order's minimum class prices. In the case of milk received by a transfer from a cooperative association's pool plant, a handler may forward contract for all such transferred milk that is not used in Class I. In many milk markets, nonpool plants regularly receive pooled milk from milk producers who are not members of a cooperative association. This milk is actually pooled by a pool plant operator or by a cooperative association through its deliveries to a pool plant. The non-member milk delivered to a nonpool plant is reported under the milk marketing order program as producer milk diverted to a nonpool plant by the cooperative association on its monthly report of receipts and utilization to the Market Administrator. Alternatively, if a cooperative association is not involved in the transaction, such milk could be reported by a pool plant operator on its monthly report of receipts and utilization. Many nonpool plant operators who receive non-member milk that is pooled through another handler issue checks to the nonpool plant's non-member producers. They submit their payrolls showing these payments to the Market Administrator. Nevertheless, these nonpool plant operators are not responsible under the milk marketing order program for paying their non-member producers the minimum Federal milk marketing order price; it is the handler (either the cooperative association or pool plant operator) that pools the milk for such nonpool plants that is responsible for an underpayment under the milk marketing order program. Accordingly, only producer milk that is subject to forward contracting with a handler in compliance with the DFPP will be exempt from the order's minimum blend price provisions. In the case of non-member milk that is reported as producer milk by a cooperative association handler or pool plant operator, but pay rolled by a nonpool plant operator, the cooperative association or pool plant operator, respectively, will be responsible for any underpayment to a non-member producer in the event that milk under contract becomes subject to minimum milk marketing order pricing (as in the case of over-contract milk). In this way, cooperative association handlers, pool plant operators, and nonpool plant operators may continue the arrangements that have evolved to pool milk under the Federal milk marketing order program and all will be permitted to participate in the forward contracting program. Any handler participating in the program will continue to file all of the reports that are required under the applicable Federal milk marketing order. This includes reports of receipts and utilization of milk and monthly payroll reports that show all information required by the orders. The notable difference, however, for handlers participating in the DFPP are that they must also provide more detailed accounting in their monthly payroll reports to the Market Administrator and remittance information provided to participating producers (7 CFR 1__.31, 1001.73(e), 1005.73(e), 1006.73(e), 1007.73(e), 1030.73(f), 1032.73(f), 1033.73(e), 1124.73(f), 1126.73(e), 1131.73(e)). In accordance with these provisions, the monthly payroll report of participating handlers is required to contain detailed accounting that distinguishes gross values paid for applicable volumes of contract versus non-contract milk for each producer. Remittance information from participating handlers to participating producers must clearly distinguish gross values and volumes for contract versus non-contract milk. These distinctions avoid any questions concerning compliance with Federal order minimum price requirements for participant milk not under contract. As with the DFPP, handlers participating in the Federal order program must submit to the Market Administrator a copy of each contract for which it claims exemption from the order's minimum blend pricing provisions. The contract must denote the pricing terms for contract milk. The contract must be signed prior to the first day of the first month for which the contract applies and must be received by the Market Administrator by the 15th day of that month. For the first month that the program is effective, contracts must be signed on or after the day on which the program becomes effective. For example, if the program becomes effective on February 15, contracts for March milk must be signed between February 15 and February 28, and copies must be received by the Market Administrator by March 15. Each handler must give each contracting dairy farmer or cooperative association a disclosure statement informing them of the nature of the program and providing certain information that should be considered before entering into a forward contract. It is important that producers clearly understand on what basis they are being paid for contract milk. The disclosure statement must be signed on the same date as the contract by the dairy farmer or cooperative association representative and will have to be returned by the handler to the Market Administrator together with the contract. The disclosure is less than one page long and can easily be incorporated into the body of the forward contract itself or can be handled as a supplement that may be attached to the forward contract. Any contract that is submitted to the Market Administrator without the disclosure statement will be considered to be invalid for the purpose of being exempt from the order's minimum pricing and will be returned to the handler. Producers who are not members of a cooperative association should be aware that their milk weights and tests will continue to be handled in the same way by the Market Administrator even if they choose to enter into a forward contract which prices their milk on a different basis than the milk marketing order in which their milk is pooled. For example, if a producer in the Appalachian Order, which prices the milk of dairy farmers on the basis of skim milk and butterfat, enters into a contract that prices milk on the basis of protein, butterfat, other solids, and somatic cell count, the producer will only receive data from the Market Administrator on the skim and butterfat components to compare against the buying handler's test data. If the producer wants to verify other component tests, they must do so at their own expense. Handlers with forward contracts remain subject to all other milk marketing order provisions. Payments specified under a forward contract must be made on or before the same dates as order payments which they replace. If handlers paid producers under contract at different times than producers not under contract, disorderly conditions might occur. Payments for milk covered under forward contract are required to be made by the dates specified in § 1145.2(e) of the regulations. Executive Order 12866 and Executive Order 13563 Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 direct agencies to assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health, and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). Executive Order 13563 emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and benefits, reducing costs, harmonizing rules, and promoting flexibility. This action has been designated as a “non-significant regulatory action” under § 3(f) of Executive Order 12866 and therefore has not been reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Executive Order 12988 This rule has been reviewed under Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice Reform. It is not intended to have a retroactive effect. There are no administrative procedures which must be exhausted prior to judicial challenge to the provisions of this rule. Executive Order 13175 This rule has been reviewed for compliance with Executive Order 13175, “Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments.” The review reveals that this rule will not have substantial and direct effects on Tribal Governments and will not have significant Tribal implications. AMS consulted with the USDA Office of Tribal Relations in development of this proposed rule and believes that it will not impact or have direct effects on Tribal governments and will not have significant Tribal implications. AMS continues to consult with the USDA Office of Tribal Relations to collaborate meaningfully to develop and strengthen departmental regulations. Regulatory Flexibility Act and Paperwork Reduction Act The legal basis for this rule was first set forth in the 2008 Farm Bill, which prohibited new forward contracts from being entered into after September 30, 2012, and no forward contracts entered into under the program extending beyond September 30, 2015 (7 U.S.C. 8772(e)). Passage of the ATRA revised the program to allow new contracts to be entered into until September 30, 2013. The 2014 Farm Bill has again extended the program so that producers and cooperative associations of producers may now enter into forward price contracts under the DFPP through September 30, 2018, and that all terms of the forward contract must expire prior to September 30, 2021. All other provisions and requirements of the program as provided for in the final rule published October 31, 2008 (73 FR 64868) are still in effect. In accordance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601-612), the Agricultural Marketing Service

(AMS)has considered the economic impact of this action on small entities and has certified that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities for the reasons stated herein. For the purpose of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, a dairy farm is considered a small business if it has an annual gross revenue of less than $750,000, and a dairy products manufacturer is a small business if it has fewer than 500 employees. For the purposes of determining which dairy farms are small businesses, the $750,000 per year criterion was used to establish a production guideline of 500,000 pounds per month. Although this guideline does not factor in additional monies that may be received by dairy producers, it should be an inclusive standard for most small dairy farmers. For purposes of determining a handler's size, if the plant is part of a larger company operating multiple plants that collectively exceed the 500-employee limit, the plant will be considered a large business even if the local plant has fewer than 500 employees. During an average month in 2012, the milk of 40,750 dairy farmers was pooled throughout the Federal milk marketing order system. Of the total, an estimated 38,305 dairy farmers, or 94 percent, were considered small businesses. During the same time period, there was an average of 237 pool handlers per month with milk priced and pooled on a Federal milk marketing order. Of this total, approximately 126, or 53 percent, were considered small businesses. AMS is committed to complying with the E-Government Act, to promote the use of the Internet and other information technologies to provide increased opportunities for citizen access to Government information and services, and for other purposes. The reporting and recordkeeping requirements for this rule are minimal. Section 1601 of the 2014 Farm Bill provides that the extension of the Dairy Forward Pricing Program shall be made without regard to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Although exempted, the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act were considered in developing the provisions of this rule. The provisions extending the Dairy Forward Pricing Program have been carefully reviewed and every effort has been made to minimize recordkeeping costs or requirements. Any handler that enters into a forward contract with a producer or cooperative association of producers must have written proof of such an arrangement. To meet other requirements for participation in this program, a handler must submit a copy of each forward contract with a producer or cooperative association of producers to the market administrator of the order which regulates the milk. Submitting this information to the milk market administrator is estimated to take 5 minutes or less. The handler must attach a disclosure statement to each forward contract, or otherwise make such statement part of the contract. The disclosure statement must be signed by each producer or cooperative representative entering into a forward contract. The disclosure statement explains that producers or cooperative associations of producers entering into forward contracts forfeit their rights to receive the minimum order price(s) for that portion of their milk that is subject to the contract for the duration of the contract period. Preparing the contract and attaching or including the disclosure statement is estimated to take 20 minutes or less per contract. Any handler participating in the program will continue to file all of the reports that are required under the applicable Federal milk marketing order, as authorized under the AMAA. The information collection requirements contained in the Federal milk marketing order program have been previously approved by the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB)under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and have been assigned OMB Control Number 0581-0032. This includes reports of utilization of milk and monthly payroll reports that show information required by the orders. Taking into account the Dairy Forward Pricing Program, the monthly payroll report of each participating handler and the support statement sent from each participating handler to each participating producer must contain detailed accounting that distinguishes total rates used in making payment and volumes for milk under forward contract. While the resulting changes in burden are exempt from the Paperwork Reduction Act, slight modifications to the currently approved “Handler's Report for Producer Payroll” form have been submitted to the OMB. If a handler's contract milk exceeds the handler's eligible milk for any month in which the specified contract price(s) are below the order's minimum prices, the handler must designate which producer milk shall not be contract milk. Preparing this notification is estimated to take 5 minutes or less. If the handler does not designate the suppliers of the over-contracted milk, the market administrator shall prorate the over-contracted milk to each producer and cooperative association having a forward contract with the handler. The primary sources of data used to complete these reports are routinely used in most business transactions. The additional reporting requirements required by this rule typically only require a minimal amount of data processing time, and the information collection and reporting burden is relatively small. Requiring the same reports for all handlers does not significantly disadvantage any handler that is smaller than the industry average. USDA does not expect the forward contracting program to unduly burden small entities or impair their ability to compete in the marketplace. In its simplest form, a forward contract between a milk buyer and a milk producer (or cooperative) is an agreement to sell a stated quantity of milk for a specified period at a stated price. Producers and handlers are able to “lock-in” prices, thereby minimizing risks associated with price and income volatility and enhancing their ability to obtain new or continued financing. By providing another tool to possibly reduce price risk, the program may aid small businesses in competing with larger entities that currently utilize futures and options markets, among other means, to reduce price volatility. Final Action In accordance with the 2014 Farm Bill, this final rule extends the Dairy Forward Pricing Program applicable under all Federal milk marketing orders. New contracts under the Program may be entered into until September 30, 2018. Any forward contract entered into up to and until the September 30, 2018, deadline is subject to a September 30, 2021, expiration date. Subtitle F of Title I of the 2014 Farm Bill provides that the promulgation of these regulations shall be made without regard to the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture, effective July 24, 1971 (36 FR 13804), 1 and the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of Title 5, United States Code. 1 A Revocation of the Statement of Policy was published in the **Federal Register** on October 28, 2013 (78 FR 64194). These provisions are made final in this action, and for the same reasons good cause exists for making this rule effective one day after publication in the **Federal Register** . To do otherwise would be impracticable, unnecessary, and contrary to the public interest. (5 U.S.C. 553; 5 U.S.C. 808) List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 1145 Contract, Forward contract, Forward pricing, Milk. For the reasons set forth in the preamble, Title 7, chapter X, Part 1145 is amended as follows: PART 1145—DAIRY FORWARD PRICING PROGRAM 1. The authority citation for 7 CFR part 1145 continues to read as follows: Authority: 7 U.S.C. 8772. 2. Amend § 1145.2 by revising paragraph

(b)to read as follows: § 1145.2 Program.

(b)No forward price contract may be entered into under the program after September 30, 2018, and no forward contract entered into under the program may extend beyond September 30, 2021. Dated: February 19, 2014. Rex A. Barnes, Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service. [FR Doc. 2014-06189 Filed 3-20-14; 8:45 am]

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