Proposed Rule Review
Texas Department of Agriculture
Title 4, Part 1
The Texas Department of Agriculture (the department) proposes to review
Title 4, Texas Administrative Code, Part 1, Chapter 4, concerning Cooperative
Marketing Associations, and Chapter 6, concerning Seed Arbitration, pursuant
to the Texas Government Code, §2001.039 and the General Appropriations
Act, Article IX, §9-10.13, 76th Legislature, 1999 (Section 9-10.13).
Section 9-10.13 and §2001.039 require state agencies to review and consider
for readoption each of their rules every four years. The review must include
an assessment of whether the original justification for the rules continues
to exist.
As part of the review process, the department proposes the repeal of §4.5
and §6.5. These proposals may be found in proposed rule section of this
issue of the
Texas Register
. The assessment
of Title 4, Part 1, Chapters 4 and 6, by the department at this time indicates
that, with the exception of the sections proposed for repeal, the reason for
adopting or readopting without changes all sections in Chapters 4 and 6 continues
to exist.
The department is accepting comments on the review of Chapters 4 and 6.
Comments on the review may be submitted within 30 days following the date
of publication of this notice in the
Texas Register
to David Kostroun, Assistant Commissioner for Regulatory Programs,
Texas Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 12847, Austin, Texas, 78711.
TRD-200102556
Dolores Alvarado Hibbs
Deputy General Counsel
Texas Department of Agriculture
Filed: May 7, 2001
Adopted Rule Review