[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-9129]
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[Federal Register: April 15, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 94-022-1]
Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding 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 an environmental assessment and a
finding of no significant impact for the shipment of an unlicensed
veterinary biological product for field testing. A risk analysis, which
forms the basis for the environmental assessment, has led us to
conclude that shipment of the unlicensed veterinary biological product
for field testing will not have a significant impact on the quality of
the human environment. Based on our finding of no significant impact,
we have determined that an environmental impact statement need not be
prepared.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the environmental assessment and finding 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 assessment and finding of no significant impact (as well
as the risk analysis 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 product referenced in this notice,
APHIS conducted a risk analysis to assess the product's potential
effects on the safety of animals, public health, and the environment.
Based on that risk analysis, APHIS has prepared an environmental
assessment. APHIS has concluded that shipment of the unlicensed
veterinary biological product for field testing will not significantly
affect the quality of the human environment. Based on this finding of
no significant impact, we have determined that there is no need to
prepare an environmental impact statement.
An environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
have been prepared for the shipment of the following unlicensed
veterinary biological product for field testing:
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Field test
Requester(s) Product location(s)
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Tufts University A live, gentically Area astride the Cape
School of Veterinary engineered, vaccinia- Cod Canal,
Medicine; Rhone vectored rabies vaccine Barnstable County,
Merieux, Inc.; and that expresses the rabies MA.
the Centers for virus surface
Disease Control and glycoprotein; and the
Prevention. vaccine is enclosed in
raccoon baits.
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The environmental assessment and finding 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 11th day of April 1994.
Lonnie J. King,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 94-9129 Filed 4-14-94; 8:45 am]
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