[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 26, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-26532]
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[Federal Register: October 26, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 94-111-1]
Availability of Environmental Assessments and Findings of No
Significant Impact
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service has prepared two environmental assessments and
findings of no significant impact for the shipment of unlicensed
veterinary biological products for field testing. Risk analyses, which
form the bases for the environmental assessments, have led us to
conclude that shipment of the unlicensed veterinary biological products
for field testing will not have a significant impact on the quality of
the human environment. Based on our findings of no significant impact,
we have determined that environmental impact statements need not be
prepared.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the environmental assessments and findings of no
significant impact may be obtained by writing to the person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please refer to the docket
number of this notice when requesting copies. Copies of the
environmental assessments and findings of no significant impact (as
well as the risk analyses with confidential business information
removed) 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 those documents are requested to
call ahead on (202) 690-2817 to facilitate entry into the reading room.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Jeanette Greenberg, Veterinary
Biologics, BBEP, APHIS, USDA, room 571, Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest
Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782; telephone (301) 436-5390; fax (301) 436-
8669.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A veterinary biological product regulated
under the Virus-Serum Toxin Act (21 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) must be shown
to be pure, safe, potent, and efficacious before a veterinary
biological product license may be issued. A field test is generally
necessary to satisfy prelicensing requirements for veterinary
biological products. In order to ship an unlicensed product for the
purpose of conducting a proposed field test, a person must receive
authorization from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS).
In determining whether to authorize shipment for field testing of
the unlicensed veterinary biological products referenced in this
notice, APHIS conducted risk analyses to assess the products' potential
effects on the safety of animals, public health, and the environment.
Based on those risk analyses, APHIS has prepared environmental
assessments. APHIS has concluded that shipment of the unlicensed
veterinary biological products for field testing will not significantly
affect the quality of the human environment. Based on these findings of
no significant impact, we have determined that there is no need to
prepare environmental impact statements.
Environmental assessments and findings of no significant impact
have been prepared for the shipment of the following unlicensed
veterinary biological products for field testing:
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Requester(s) Product Field test location(s)
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Tufts University School A live, genetically Area astride the Cape
of Veterinary engineered, vaccinia- Cod Canal, Barnstable
Medicine; Rhone vectored rabies County, MA (same 61-
Merieux, Inc.; and the vaccine that expresses square-mile area as
Centers for Disease the rabies virus for the ongoing field
Control and Prevention. surface glycoprotein; test plus additional
the vaccine is 20 square miles on
enclosed in raccoon the northern border).
baits.
Rhone Merieux, Inc., A live, genetically The northern part of
and the State of New engineered, vaccinia- Cape May Peninsula,
Jersey. vectored rabies NJ (same area as for
vaccine that expresses the ongoing field
the rabies virus test).
surface glycoprotein;
the vaccine is
enclosed in raccoon
baits.
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The environmental assessments and findings of no significant impact
have been prepared in accordance with: (1) The National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA)(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), (2) Regulations of
the Council on Environmental Quality for Implementing the Procedural
Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), (3) USDA Regulations
Implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS Guidelines
Implementing NEPA (44 FR 50381-50384, August 28, 1979, and 44 FR 51272-
51274, August 31, 1979).
Done in Washington, DC, this 20th day of October, 1994.
Terry L. Medley,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 94-26532 Filed 10-25-94; 8:45 am]
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