[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 200 (Friday, October 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 55573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27827]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 98-041-2]
Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry
Diseases
Agency
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
Action
Notice of intent.
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Summary
We are giving notice that the Secretary of Agriculture intends to reestablish the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases for a 2-year period. The Secretary of Agriculture has determined that the Committee is necessary and in the public interest.
For Further Information Contact
Dr. Joe Annelli, Chief Staff Veterinarian, Emergency Programs, Veterinary Services, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 41, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231, (301) 734-8073.
Supplementary Information
The purpose of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases is to advise the Secretary of Agriculture regarding program operations and measures to suppress, control, or eradicate an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, or other destructive foreign animal or poultry diseases, in the event these diseases should enter the United States. The Committee also advises the Secretary of Agriculture of means to prevent these diseases.
Done in Washington, DC, this 9th day of October 1998. Reba Pittman Evans, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration. [FR Doc. 98-27827 Filed 10-15-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-34-P