[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 14 (Friday, January 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 3482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1417]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 98-124-1]
Availability of a Supplement to the Horse Protection Strategic
Plan
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public of the availability of a supplement
to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Horse Protection
Strategic Plan and are inviting comments on it. The supplement concerns
the Horse Protection Act operating plan for the 1999 show season for
Tennessee Walking Horses and other gaited horses.
DATES: Consideration will be given only to comments received on or
before January 29, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Please send an original and three copies of your comments to
Docket No. 98-124-1, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS,
suite 3C03, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please
state that your comments refer to Docket No. 98-124-1. Copies of the
supplement to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Horse
Protection Strategic Plan may be obtained either by contacting the
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, or electronically
at http://www.aphis.gov/ac. A copy of the supplement and comments
received on the supplement are also available for public inspection at
USDA, room 1141, South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. Persons wishing to inspect the supplement or
comments are requested to call ahead on (202) 690-2817 to facilitate
entry into the comment reading room.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Richard Watkins, Initiatives
Coordinator, Animal Care, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 84, Riverdale, MD
20737-1234, (301) 734-4981; or e-mail: richard.h.watkins@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The practice known as ``soring'' is the
causing of pain in Tennessee Walking Horses and other gaited horses, in
order to affect their performance. The Horse Protection Act (HPA) (11
U.S.C. et seq.) was enacted for the purpose of eliminating soring by
prohibiting the showing, exhibition, transport or sale of sore horses.
Exercising its rulemaking and enforcement authority under the HPA, the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issues and enforces
regulations regarding horse protection at title 9, chapter I, part 11,
of the Code of Federal Regulations.
In 1995, APHIS initiated development of a Horse Protection
Strategic Plan, designed to achieve the elimination of soring by
strengthening APHIS's relationship with the walking horse industry. A
notice of the availability of the final Horse Protection Strategic Plan
was published in the Federal Register on December 1, 1997 (62 FR 63510,
Docket No. 97-105-1). Based on our experience using the Horse
Protection Strategic Plan during the 1998 show season for Tennessee
Walking Horses and other gaited horses, we determined that a supplement
to the Horse Protection Strategic Plan, explaining and clarifying
operating procedures, would be useful for the 1999 show season. This
notice announces the availability of that supplement and invites
comment from the horse industry and other interested members of the
public.
Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of January 1999.
Craig A. Reed,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 99-1417 Filed 1-21-99; 8:45 am]
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