83 FR 11493 - Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Program; Public Meeting
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 51 (March 15, 2018)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 51 (March 15, 2018)
| Page Range | 11493-11493 | |
| FR Document | 2018-05270 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 51 (Thursday, March 15, 2018)] [Notices] [Page 11493] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-05270] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [Docket No. APHIS-2018-0013] Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Program; Public Meeting AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice of public meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: We are notifying stakeholders and interested persons that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is hosting a public meeting to provide information on the Agency's current thinking regarding low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) indemnity, compensation, and controlled marketing. The meeting will include an overview of the concepts we are developing with respect to LPAI indemnity, compensation, and controlled marketing and provide an opportunity for attendees to discuss issues of interest. DATES: The meeting will be held on March 27, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held at the Atlanta Airport Marriott, 4711 Best Road, Atlanta, GA 30337. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Fidelis Hegngi, Avian Health Surveillance Staff, Preparedness, and Response Services, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 46, Suite 4B-02.27, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851-3564. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) virus typically causes little to no clinical signs in infected poultry. It spreads primarily through direct contact between healthy and infected birds or through indirect contact with contaminated equipment and materials. To prevent cases of LPAI, poultry producers must use special preventative measures and precautions on the farm. When LPAI findings do occur, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and its State partners work to address them quickly and keep the disease from spreading to new flocks. Because LPAI does not typically kill poultry the way highly pathogenic avian influenza does, there may be additional control options beyond depopulation. In order to provide a forum for the discussion of policy issues related to LPAI, APHIS is organizing a public meeting to provide information on our current thinking with respect to LPAI indemnity, compensation, and controlled marketing with poultry stakeholders and partners. This meeting will be held on March 27, 2018, and will begin at 8 a.m., and is scheduled to end at 4:30 p.m. Information regarding the meeting and registration instructions may be obtained from the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The meeting will open with remarks by Dr. Jack Shere, Deputy Administrator for APHIS' Veterinary Services. An overview of APHIS' current thinking on LPAI indemnity, compensation, and controlled marketing process will follow. APHIS will share the concepts we are developing on the process and take questions in a feedback session, where attendees can seek clarification about specific issues and state their opinions. The meeting will then break for lunch. After lunch, attendees will discuss the challenges of an LPAI incident or outbreak in the Table Egg and Upland Game Bird industries and offer possible solutions. The entire group will then reconvene to receive the highlights of each session, and the meeting will end after a discussion of next steps and closing remarks. If you require special accommodations, such as a sign language interpreter, please call or write the individual under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Done in Washington, DC, this 12th day of March 2018. Kevin Shea, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. 2018-05270 Filed 3-14-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-34-P
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are to respond, through use, as ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be language interpreter, please call or write
appropriate, of automated, electronic, held at the Atlanta Airport Marriott, the individual under FOR FURTHER
mechanical, and other collection 4711 Best Road, Atlanta, GA 30337. INFORMATION CONTACT.
technologies; e.g., permitting electronic FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Done in Washington, DC, this 12th day of
submission of responses. Fidelis Hegngi, Avian Health March 2018.
Estimate of burden: The public Surveillance Staff, Preparedness, and Kevin Shea,
burden for this collection of information Response Services, VS, APHIS, 4700 Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
is estimated to average 2.813 hours per River Road, Unit 46, Suite 4B–02.27, Inspection Service.
response. Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851–3564. [FR Doc. 2018–05270 Filed 3–14–18; 8:45 am]
Respondents: State animal health SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The low BILLING CODE 3410–34–P
officials, accredited veterinarians, pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI)
laboratories, and businesses managing virus typically causes little to no
farmed, captive, or wild cervid herds. clinical signs in infected poultry. It DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Estimated annual number of spreads primarily through direct contact
respondents: 4,532. between healthy and infected birds or Forest Service
Estimated annual number of through indirect contact with
responses per respondent: 27. National Urban and Community
contaminated equipment and materials. Forestry Advisory Council
Estimated annual number of To prevent cases of LPAI, poultry
responses: 123,397. producers must use special preventative AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
Estimated total annual burden on measures and precautions on the farm. ACTION: Notice of meeting.
respondents: 347,163 hours. (Due to When LPAI findings do occur, the
averaging, the total annual burden hours Animal and Plant Health Inspection SUMMARY: The National Urban and
may not equal the product of the annual Service (APHIS) and its State partners Community Forestry Advisory Council
number of responses multiplied by the work to address them quickly and keep (Council) will meet via teleconference.
reporting burden per response.) the disease from spreading to new The Council is authorized under Section
All responses to this notice will be flocks. Because LPAI does not typically 9 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance
summarized and included in the request kill poultry the way highly pathogenic Act (the Act), as amended, and the
for OMB approval. All comments will avian influenza does, there may be Federal Advisory Committee Act
also become a matter of public record. additional control options beyond (FACA). Additional information
Done in Washington, DC, on March 9, depopulation. concerning the Council, can be found by
2018. In order to provide a forum for the visiting the Council’s website at: http://
Kevin Shea, discussion of policy issues related to www.fs.fed.us/ucf/nucfac.shtml.
LPAI, APHIS is organizing a public DATES: The teleconference will be held
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service. meeting to provide information on our on Tuesday March 20, 2018, from 10:30
[FR Doc. 2018–05263 Filed 3–14–18; 8:45 am] current thinking with respect to LPAI a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Eastern Standard
indemnity, compensation, and Time (EST) or until Council business is
BILLING CODE 3410–34–P
controlled marketing with poultry completed. All meetings are subject to
stakeholders and partners. This meeting cancellation. For an updated status of
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE will be held on March 27, 2018, and the teleconference prior to attendance,
will begin at 8 a.m., and is scheduled to please contact the person listed under
Animal and Plant Health Inspection end at 4:30 p.m. Information regarding FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Service the meeting and registration instructions ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
may be obtained from the person listed via teleconference. For anyone who
[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0013]
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION would like to attend the teleconference,
Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza CONTACT. please visit the website listed in the
Program; Public Meeting The meeting will open with remarks ‘‘Summary’’ section or contact Nancy
by Dr. Jack Shere, Deputy Administrator Stremple at nstremple@fs.fed.us for
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health for APHIS’ Veterinary Services. An further details. Written comments may
Inspection Service, USDA. overview of APHIS’ current thinking on be submitted as described under
ACTION: Notice of public meeting. LPAI indemnity, compensation, and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. All
controlled marketing process will comments, including names and
SUMMARY: We are notifying stakeholders follow. APHIS will share the concepts addresses when provided, are placed in
and interested persons that the Animal we are developing on the process and the record and are available for public
and Plant Health Inspection Service is take questions in a feedback session, inspection and copying. The public may
hosting a public meeting to provide where attendees can seek clarification inspect comments received at the USDA
information on the Agency’s current about specific issues and state their Forest Service, Sidney Yates Building.,
thinking regarding low pathogenicity opinions. The meeting will then break Room 3SC–01C, 201 14th Street SW,
avian influenza (LPAI) indemnity, for lunch. After lunch, attendees will Washington DC 20024. Please call ahead
compensation, and controlled discuss the challenges of an LPAI at 202–309–7829 to facilitate entry into
marketing. The meeting will include an incident or outbreak in the Table Egg the building.
overview of the concepts we are FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES
and Upland Game Bird industries and
developing with respect to LPAI offer possible solutions. The entire Nancy Stremple, Executive Staff,
indemnity, compensation, and group will then reconvene to receive the National Urban and Community
controlled marketing and provide an highlights of each session, and the Forestry Advisory Council, by cell
opportunity for attendees to discuss meeting will end after a discussion of phone at 202–309–9873, or by email at
issues of interest. next steps and closing remarks. nstremple@fs.fed.us, or via facsimile at
DATES: The meeting will be held on If you require special 202–690–5792. Individuals who use
March 27, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. accommodations, such as a sign telecommunication devices for the deaf
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| Collection | Federal Register | |
| sudoc Class | AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: | |
| Publisher | Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration | |
| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice of public meeting. | |
| Dates | The meeting will be held on March 27, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | |
| Contact | Dr. Fidelis Hegngi, Avian Health Surveillance Staff, Preparedness, and Response Services, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 46, Suite 4B-02.27, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851-3564. | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 11493 |
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