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[CITE: 7USC6415]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
           CHAPTER 93--PROCESSOR-FUNDED MILK PROMOTION PROGRAM
 
Sec. 6415. Amendments


(a) Amendments to order

    Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary may issue 
such amendments to an order as may be necessary to carry out this 
chapter.

(b) Amendment to assessment rates

                           (1) In general

        The Secretary may conduct at any time a referendum of persons 
    who, during a representative period as determined by the Secretary, 
    have been fluid milk processors on adjusting the assessment rate 
    under the order issued under this chapter then in effect, and shall 
    hold such a referendum on request of the Board or any group of such 
    processors that among them marketed during a representative period, 
    as determined by the Secretary, 10 percent or more of the volume of 
    fluid milk products marketed by all processors.

                  (2) Adjustment to assessment rate

        The Secretary shall adjust the assessment rate under the order 
    whenever the Secretary determines that the adjustment is favored--
            (A) by at least 50 percent of fluid milk processors voting 
        in the referendum; and
            (B) by fluid milk processors that marketed during a 
        representative period, as determined by the Secretary, 60 
        percent or more of the volume of fluid milk products marketed by 
        all processors;

    In no event shall the rate of assessment prescribed by the order 
    exceed 20 cents per hundredweight.

                         (3) Effective date

        The adjusted assessment rate shall be effective on a date, as 
    determined by the Secretary, after the results of the referendum are 
    known, but not later than 30 days after the referendum.

                          (4) Costs; manner

        Subsections (c) and (d) of section 6413 of this title shall 
    apply to a referendum conducted under this subsection.

(Pub. L. 101-624, title XIX, Sec. 1999P, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3926.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 6409 of this title.
