Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

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section_name: "Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers"
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#  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 Maine Lobstermen's Association on behalf of U.S. fishermen who catch and market live lobsters ( *Homarus americanus* ). The Administrator will determine within 40 days whether or not increasing imports of live lobsters ( *Homarus americanus* ) contributed importantly to a greater than 15 percent decrease in the value of production of lobsters compared to the average of the 3 preceding marketing years. If a determination is affirmative, U.S. fishermen who catch and market live lobsters ( *Homarus americanus* ) 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.