---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 59.204"
title: "7"
number: "59.204"
heading: "Mandatory weekly reporting for swine."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/59.204"
---

# §59.204. Mandatory weekly reporting for swine.

- (a) **Weekly noncarcass merit premium report.** Not later than 4 p.m. central time in accordance with [§ 59.10(b)](/cfr/7/59.10.md?p=b) on the first reporting day of each week, the corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary a noncarcass merit premium report that lists:
  - (1) Each category of standard noncarcass merit premiums used by the packer in the prior slaughter week; and
  - (2) The dollar value (in dollars per hundred pounds of carcass weight) paid to producers by the packer, by category.
- (b) **Premium list.** A packer shall maintain and make available to a producer, on request, a current listing of the dollar values (per hundred pounds of carcass weight) of each noncarcass merit premium used by the packer during the current or the prior slaughter week.
- (c) **Publication.** The Secretary shall publish the information obtained under this subsection as soon as practicable, but not later than 5 p.m. central time, on the first reporting day of each week.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1635-1636i.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 28633, May 16, 2008, unless otherwise noted.