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its Maine market producers according to the blend price | calculated using that dealer's utilization rate. With respect | to those producers who have designated an eligible marketing | cooperative to receive the over-order premium, the dealer | shall make the payment to the eligible marketing cooperative. | With respect to those producers who have not designated an | eligible marketing cooperative to receive the over-order | premium, the dealer shall make the payment into the Maine Milk | Pool. In making the payments required by this paragraph, Maine | market dealers shall comply in all other respects with chapter | 603. |
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| D. For any month in which the Maine Milk Commission has | established minimum prices payable to producers that include | an over-order premium which that the commission has | determined is not attributable to the activity of an | eligible marketing cooperative, the over-order premium shall | is not be pooled. |
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| F. For any month in which the Maine Milk Commission has | included in Class I, Class II or Class III prices any | amounts to reflect the increased costs of production | pursuant to section 2954, subsection 2, paragraph A, those | amounts must be paid into the Maine Milk Pool for | redistribution to eligible Maine and Boston market producers | on an equal basis in accordance with subsection 4. |
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| G. For any month in which there is only one Maine market | dealer subject to collection under subsection 2, paragraph A | and the milk sold or otherwise distributed by that dealer | during that month does not exceed 1,000,000 pounds, the | additional payment at the adjusted base minimum price under | subsection 2, paragraph A due to the Maine Milk Pool instead | must be made by that dealer to its Maine market producers. |
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| | Sec. F-31. 7 MRSA §3153, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1999, c. 679, Pt. B, | §13 and affected by §14, is further amended to read: |
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| | 4. Redistribution of pool; base minimum price. The | commissioner shall, by rule, adopt such procedures as are | necessary to redistribute payments into the Maine Milk Pool at | the base minimum price under subsection 2, paragraphs A and F on | an equal basis to eligible Maine market producers and eligible | Boston market producers, except that: |
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| A. If any Boston market producer whose farm is located within | 140 miles of Boston receives a plant price, excluding deductions | or additions imposed by the northeast marketing area milk | marketing order or imposed by any other seasonal balancing plan | subsequently adopted by the northeast |
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