# Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers
**AGENCY:**
Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
The Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), today accepted a petition, and began a review of a petition, for trade adjustment assistance by the Louisiana Crawfish Farmers Association on behalf of farm-raised crawfish producers in Louisiana. The Administrator will determine within 40 days whether or not increasing imports of crawfish contributed importantly to a greater than 15 percent decrease in the national average price of crawfish compared to the average of the 3 preceding marketing years. If a determination is affirmative, producers who produce and market farm-raised crawfish in Louisiana will be eligible to apply to the Farm Service Agency for technical assistance at no cost and cash benefits.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Trade Adjustment Assistance Staff, FAS, USDA, at (202) 720-0638, or by e-mail at: *[email protected].* Additional program information can be obtained at the Web site for the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers program. The URL is *http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/taa.*
Dated: April 27, 2010.
John D. Brewer,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.