Pennsylvania Code
Pennsylvania Code & Bulletin
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

• No statutes or acts will be found at this website.

The Pennsylvania Bulletin website includes the following: Rulemakings by State agencies; Proposed Rulemakings by State agencies; State agency notices; the Governor’s Proclamations and Executive Orders; Actions by the General Assembly; and Statewide and local court rules.

PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 06-1847

NOTICES

MILK MARKETING BOARD

Hearing and Presubmission Schedule for All Milk Marketing Areas; Over-Order Price

[36 Pa.B. 5851]
[Saturday, September 16, 2006]

   Under the Milk Marketing Law (31 P. S. §§ 700j-101--700j-1302), the Milk Marketing Board (Board) will conduct a public hearing for Milk Marketing Areas 1--6 on October 31, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 202 of the Agriculture Building, 2301 North Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA.

   The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony and exhibits concerning the applicable Class I over-order prices on milk purchased by Pennsylvania milk dealers from Pennsylvania producers and distributed as Class I milk by Pennsylvania milk dealers in this Commonwealth and outside this Commonwealth. The Board will also receive testimony and exhibits concerning the applicable Class I over-order prices on milk purchased from Pennsylvania producers by out-of-State milk dealers and distributed as Class I milk by out-of-State milk dealers in this Commonwealth and outside the Commonwealth.

   The staff of the Board is deemed to be a party to this hearing, and the attorney representing staff is deemed to have entered his appearance. Other persons who wish to present evidence may be included on the Board's list of parties by: (1) having their attorney file with the Board on or before 4 p.m. on September 22, 2006, a notice of appearance substantially in the form prescribed by 1 Pa. Code § 31.25; or (2) if unrepresented by counsel, filing with the Board on or before 4 p.m. on September 22, 2006, notification of their desire to be included as a party. Parties may indicate in their notices of appearance if alternate means of service, such as, e-mail or fax, are acceptable.

   The parties shall observe the following requirements for advance filing of witness information and exhibits:

   1.  By 4 p.m. on September 25, 2006, each petitioning party shall file with the Board, in person or by mail, one original and eight copies and ensure receipt by all other parties of one copy of:

   a.  A list of witnesses who will testify for the party, along with a statement of the subjects concerning which each witness will testify. A witness who will be offered as an expert shall be so identified, along with the witness's area or areas of proposed expertise. For expert witnesses there shall also be filed a statement of the substance of the facts and opinions to which the expert is expected to testify and a summary of the grounds for each opinion.

   b.  Each exhibit to be presented, including testimony to be offered in written form.

   2.  By 4 p.m. on October 19, 2006, each party shall file and serve as set forth in paragraph 1 information concerning rebuttal witnesses and copies of rebuttal exhibits.

   3.  By 4 p.m. on October 25, 2006, each party shall file and serve as set forth in paragraph 1 information concerning surrebuttal witnesses and copies of surrebuttal exhibits.

   The Board may exclude witnesses or exhibits of a party that fails to comply with the above requirements. In addition, the parties shall have available in the hearing room at least 20 additional copies made available for the use of nonparties attending the hearing.

   Parties that wish to offer in evidence documents on file with the Board, public documents, records in other proceedings before the Board, or wish the Board to take official notice of facts, shall comply with, respectively, 1 Pa. Code § 35.164, § 35.165, § 35.167 or § 35.173. Whenever these rules require production of a document as an exhibit, copies shall be provided to each Board member and to all other parties; in addition, at least 20 copies shall be available for distribution to nonparties attending the hearing.

   Requests by parties for Board staff to provide data pertinent to the hearing shall be made in writing and received in the Board office by 1 p.m. on October 23, 2006.

   The filing address for the Board is Milk Marketing Board, Room 110, Agriculture Building, 2301 North Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110.

KEITH BIERLY,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-1847. Filed for public inspection September 15, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]


No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit.

This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Bulletin full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.