RAC-1000 CA Raisins--Application for Raisin Diversion Certificate

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING FORM RAC-1000
Producer's address should be the address to which you wish correspondence mailed.
Location of production unit - In addition to numbered address, please provide location (for exampleNW comer of Shields and Dickenson - or East side of Road 28 approximately half-way between
Avenues 7 and 8).
A production unit must be physically identifiable having permanent boundaries (either natural or manmade). No partial production units will be accepted for diversion. A production unit is the planted
acreage and does not include home sites, yard acres or roads.
Creditable fruit weight (meeting weight) of raisins produced on a production unit must be
verifiable from delivery records furnished RAC by handlers to whom you delivered raisins. If
you have more than one production unit, the raisin deliveries should be identified as John Doe
River Ranch; Bluff Ranch; Ranch #1, Ranch #2, etc. The producer may be requested to provide
additional information when the delivery record is not readily identifiable with the production
unit on the application.

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Any production units that have revised weights subsequent to the program announcement date may
be referred to the RAC Executive Committee for review prior to approval.
Documents required include copies of any TWO of the following: Plat map from County Hall of
Records, Irrigation Tax Bill, County Tax Bill or any other Document containing an Assessors Parcel
Number.
If you wish to divert more than one production unit and wish a diversion certificate to be issued for
each unit, please complete and submit a separate application for a diversion certificate for each unit.
If a producer intends to remove vines on a production unit and also diverts (aborts) the grape crop on
another unit, a separate application should be submitted for the vine removal (Form RAC-1000R) and
the diverted (aborted) unit or partial unit (Form RAC-1000).
The applicant, whose application has been approved, agrees that by participating in the Raisin
Diversion Program, the information in the application may be disclosed to the Committee, its
representatives or agents.
The applicant, whose application has been approved, authorizes Committee representatives and
agents to have access to the production unit in the diversion program during reasonable daytime hours
during the crop year to confirm compliance with the program. Such access shall include entry into
production Unlt(s), if deemed necessary.
Applications for a

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Raisin Diversion Certificate must be received in the RAC office (3445 North

First Street, Suite 101, Fresno, California) by 4:30 p.m. on December 20, _
must be filed by CERTIFIED MAIL not later than December 20,_.

or if submitted by mail,

Thisreport is required by law (7 u.s. C 608(t/), 7 CF.R. 989.56 and 989.156). Failure to report can result in afine of Sl,100 for
eachsuch violation and eachday during which such violation continuesshall be deemeda separateviolation.
According to the P, eFWork Reduction Act of 1995, an tyfe.~ may not conduct or sponsor: !",d a person is not required to respond
to a coHection of in ormation unless it dispJiiys a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number flJr this information
coUection is 0581- 71
178. The time require(J to complete this information coUection is estimated to avert!Ke 10 minutes per response,
including the time for revif!!Ping instructions, searching existttrg data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, aiuJ
completing and reviewing the coUection of information. The u.s. Departmenrof Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all
its pro~ams and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, l!{Je, disa5iliii and where applicable, sex, marital status,
familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, p~liiical beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of
an individual's InCome is derived ftom anypublic assistance pr
am (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons wtth
disabilities who r~quire alternative meansJ.!J!' communication 0 rogram information (BraiUe1wge print, auiliotapel.etc.) should
contact USDA's TARGET Center at (202).720-2600 (voice and
f))~ Tofile a cOnqJlaint of discrimination, write (0 uSDA,
Director, Office of Civil Ritrhts, UOO Independence Avenue~ S. w.:, Washmgton, D. C 2025(J-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or
(202) 720-6382(TDD). U~7)Ais an equa£opportunity proVIder and emploYer.

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APPLICATION FOR A

RAC-1000
Revised 12/06

RAISIN DIVERSION CERTIFICATE

DIVERSION (ABORTION)

ONLY

Office of Management & Budget
Control Number 0581-0178

RAISIN ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

FOR RAC USE ONLY
Producers

Name:

Mailing Address:
Street or P.O. Box

Zip

City.State
)
Telephone Number: (
Location and address of production

unit to be diverted:

Acres to be aborted
. Total Acres of Production Unit
*
* (Producer must submit a general map of production unit showing locationof acreage to be aborted withthe application).
Documents attached:
Plat Map_,
Irrigation Tax BiII_,
Property Tax BiII_,
APN (Assessors Parcel Number)
Provide any two of those listed.

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Other with

Creditable fruit weiqht of
raisins produced on production unit in
unit in Crop Year:
Ibs **
* Producer must submit delivery report from handler prior to July 31,

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If different from producers name above, name under which raisins were delivered:

Name of handler or handlers to whom meeting raisins were delivered:

I hereby agree to comply with all the regulations established for the Raisin Diversion Program and certify that
all persons with an equity interest in the raisins produced from grapes grown on the production unit identified
herein consent to the filing of this application.
The making of any false statement or representations in any matter within the jurisdiction of any agency of the United States,

knowing itto be false, is a violationof Title 18, Section 1001, United States Code, whichprovides fora penalty of a fine of $10,000
or imprisonment of not more than five years, or both.

Signature:

Title:

Mailto:

Raisin Administrative Committee
P. O. Box 5217
Fresno, CA 93755-5217
(See reverse side for instructions)