Reminder: USDA to Hold Hearing on Proposed Federal Milk Marketing Order for California

Date
September 18, 2015

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will hold a public hearing starting on Sept. 22, 2015, in Clovis, Calif., to consider the establishment of a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) for California.

The hearing, which USDA expects to last several weeks, will begin at 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Sept. 22, 2015, at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District Building, 808 Fourth Street, Clovis, Calif.  93612. The hearing is open to the public. USDA will hear testimony and receive evidence regarding four proposals for a FMMO in California.

The hearing will be webcast (audio only) beginning at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F35idpd4-3k or http://www.ams.usda.gov/live

Additional hearing information can be found on USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service website at www.ams.usda.gov/caorder.  

The notice of hearing, which was published in the August 6, 2015, Federal Register can be viewed at http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=AMS_FRDOC_0001-1327USDA.

If you have questions regarding the hearing or the webcast, please contact William Francis, Order Formulation and Enforcement Division, at (202) 720-7183 or William.Francis@ams.usda.gov.