2017-03044. Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins; Biennial Review and Enhanced Biosafety Requirements; Delay of Effective Date  

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    AGENCY:

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

    ACTION:

    Final rule; delay of effective date.

    SUMMARY:

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces a delay in the effective date of the final rule titled “Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins, Biennial Review and Enhanced Biosafety Requirements” that published on January 19, 2017. In a companion document published in this issue of the Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making a parallel change in the effective date of their final rule. This action is undertaken in accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2017 from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff entitled “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review.”

    DATES:

    The effective date for the final rule published January 19, 2017, at 82 FR 6278, is delayed until March 21, 2017.

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    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

    Dr. Samuel S. Edwin, Director, Division of Select Agents and Toxins, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS A-46, Atlanta, Georgia, 30329. Telephone: 404-718-2000.

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    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    On January 19, 2017, HHS/CDC published a final rule titled “Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins; Biennial Review and Enhanced Biosafety Requirements” (82 FR 6278) with an effective date of February 21, 2017. With this document, HHS/CDC announces a new effective date of March 21, 2017 for this final rule. In a companion document published in this issue of the Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making a parallel change in the effective date of their final rule.

    HHS/CDC bases this action on the memorandum of January 20, 2017 from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff entitled “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review.” This memorandum directed the heads of Executive Departments and Agencies to temporarily postpone for sixty days from the date of the memorandum the effective dates of all regulations that had been published in the Federal Register but had not yet taken effect.

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    Dated: February 9, 2017.

    Norris Cochran,

    Acting Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.

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    [FR Doc. 2017-03044 Filed 2-15-17; 8:45 am]

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Document Information

Effective Date:
1/19/2017
Published:
02/16/2017
Department:
Health and Human Services Department
Entry Type:
Rule
Action:
Final rule; delay of effective date.
Document Number:
2017-03044
Dates:
The effective date for the final rule published January 19, 2017, at 82 FR 6278, is delayed until March 21, 2017.
Pages:
10864-10864 (1 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Docket No. CDC-2015-0045
RINs:
0920-AA59: Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins; Biennial Review, Addition of Certain Influenza Strains to the List of Select Agents, and Enhanced Biosafety Requirements
RIN Links:
https://www.federalregister.gov/regulations/0920-AA59/possession-use-and-transfer-of-select-agents-and-toxins-biennial-review-addition-of-certain-influenz
PDF File:
2017-03044.Pdf
Supporting Documents:
» Select Agent: Determination that Vaccine Strain, TC-83(A3G) of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus is a Regulated Strain of VEEV
» Order Suspending Introduction of Persons from a Country Where a Communicable Disease Exists
» World Trade Center Health Program: Petition 025-Parkinson's Disease and Parkinsonism, Including Heavy Metal-Induced Parkinsonism; Finding of Insufficient Evidence
» Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Causation Under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act
» World Trade Center Health Program: Petition 021-Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism; Finding of Insufficient Evidence
» World Trade Center Health Program: Petition 018-Hypertension; Finding of Insufficient Evidence
» Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins: Addition of Certain Influenza Virus Strains to the List of Select Agents and Toxins
» Foreign Quarantine Regulations, Proposed Revision of HHS/CDC Animal Importation Regulations
» Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins-Addition of Bacillus Cereus Biovar Anthracis to HHS List of Select Agents and Toxins
» Control of Communicable Diseases; Delay of Effective Date
CFR: (1)
42 CFR 73