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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 07-503

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Referendum on Continuation of the Pennsylvania Potato Research Program

[37 Pa.B. 1343]
[Saturday, March 24, 2007]

   Under the applicable provisions of 3 Pa.C.S. §§ 4501--4513 (relating to Agricultural Commodities Marketing Act), a review referendum was held from January 3 to January 22, 2007, to determine if the producers affected by the Pennsylvania Potato Research Program (program) wished to increase the program assessment fee from $4 to $5 per acre. To pass, a majority of eligible producers voting had to vote in favor of the program's assessment increase. The referendum also required that the majority of voters casting a favorable ballot represent a majority of potato production by acreage among the voters. An impartial teller committee met on February 13, 2007, to count the ballots. The following results were submitted by the Teller Committee: a total of 62 eligible votes were cast with 41 producers voting in favor of and 21 voting against the proposed assessment increase. (One additional ballot was invalid, because it was not signed.) Votes favoring the assessment increase represented 66.13% and votes against represented 33.87% of the total, eligible 62 votes cast. Voters favoring the assessment increase represented 72.26% of total potato production acreage among those voting. Because a majority of the votes were cast in favor of the proposed assessment increase and represented a majority by production volume, the program shall increase the assessment fee from $4 to $5 per acre, effective July 1, 2007.

DENNIS C WOLFF,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 07-503. Filed for public inspection March 23, 2007, 9:00 a.m.]


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