[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 81 (Thursday, April 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 18371]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10259]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 96-021-1]
Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry
Diseases; Meeting
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: We are giving notice of a meeting of the Secretary's Advisory
Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases.
PLACE, DATES, AND TIME OF MEETING: The meeting will be held in
Conference Rooms B, C, and D of the USDA Center at Riverside, 4700
River Road, Riverdale, MD. The Committee will meet on May 15-16, 1996.
Sessions will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 15, and from 8 a.m.
until noon on May 16.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. John Williams, Chief Staff
Veterinarian, Emergency Programs, VS, APHIS, Suite 3B08, 4700 River
Road Unit 41, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236, (301) 734-8073.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary`s Advisory Committee on
Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases (Committee) advises the Secretary
of Agriculture of means 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 on
prevention of these diseases.
The meeting will focus on emergency preparedness and will be open
to the public. However, due to time constraints, the public will not be
allowed to participate in the Committee's discussions. Written
statements concerning the meeting topic may be filed with the Committee
before or after the meeting by sending them to Dr. John Williams at the
address listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
This notice of meeting is given pursuant to section 10 of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of April 1996.
Terry L. Medley,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 96-10259 Filed 4-24-96; 8:45 am]
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