[USCC] Fwd: USDA Organic Certification Cost Share Program

[Jim McNelly]

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>ORGANIC FOOD
>*   USDA Organic Certification Cost Share Program - The USDA 
>Agricultural Marketing Service has published a notice inviting " ... 
>eligible States to submit a Standard Form 424, Application for 
>Federal Assistance, and to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with 
>the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) for the Allocation of 
>Organic Certification Cost-Share Funds. The AMS has allocated $1.0 
>million for this organic certification cost-share program in Fiscal 
>Year 2006. Funds will be available under this program to 15 
>designated States to assist organic crop and livestock producers 
>certified by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) accredited 
>certifying agents to the National Organic Program (NOP). Eligible 
>States interested in obtaining cost-share funds for their organic 
>producers will have to submit an Application for Federal Assistance, 
>and will have to enter into a cooperative agreement with AMS for the 
>allocation of such funds ... Completed applications for Federal 
>assistance along with signed cooperative agreements must be received 
>by September 6, 2006, in order to participate in this program ..." - 
>Information about the USDA AMS National Organic Program is posted at 
>National Organic Program's homepage at 
><http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop>http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop - AMS 
>Organic Food Program Contact: Robert Pooler, Agricultural Marketing 
>Specialist, National Organic Program, USDA/AMS/TMP/NOP at 202 720 
>3252; fax: 202 205 7808; e-mail: 
><mailto:Bob.Pooler at USDA.gov>Bob.Pooler at USDA.gov - AMS August 7 
>Federal Register: 
><http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-12745.htm>http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-12745.htm 
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