[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 99 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 28002]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13503]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 97-039-1]
Hawaii Animal Import Center; Notice of Closure
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of closure.
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SUMMARY: We are notifying the public of the closure of the Hawaii
Animal Import Center in Honolulu, HI. We are no longer accepting
reservations for quarantine space at the Hawaii Animal Import Center.
The Hawaii Animal Import Center will officially close at the end of the
business day on June 30, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Gary Colgrove, Chief Staff
Veterinarian, National Center for Import and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700
River Road Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231, (301) 734-3276; or Dr.
Robert DeCarolis, Area Veterinarian in Charge, Hawaii, VS, APHIS, 3375
Koapaka St., Suite H420, Honolulu, HI 96819, (808) 861-8560.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Hawaii Animal Import Center (HAIC) in Honolulu, HI, serves as a
quarantine station for domestic livestock and poultry, as well as other
exotic animals and birds. In Honolulu, HAIC is located on property
owned by the U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard will be vacating
this property at the beginning of Fiscal Year 1998 and has notified the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) that it must also
vacate the premises and return the property on which HAIC currently
operates to the Coast Guard.
APHIS is no longer accepting reservations for quarantine space at
HAIC. This is necessary to ensure that the facility does not have to
delay its closure to care for sick animals in quarantine. HAIC will
officially cease all operations at the close of the business day on
June 30, 1997, to ensure that the property is vacant and returned to
the Coast Guard by the close of the Fiscal Year 1997.
The closure of HAIC is not expected to have a significant impact on
importers or other entities, large or small. Very few animals have been
quarantined at the facility during the past 2 years. In a future
edition of the Federal Register, we plan to publish a proposed rule to
remove Honolulu from the list of areas in 9 CFR parts 92 and 98 that
serve as quarantine locations in the United States. At that time, we
will solicit comments from the public on whether to remove Honolulu,
HI, as a quarantine location.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622; 19 U.S.C. 1306; 21 U.S.C. 102-105,
111, 114a, 134a, 134b, 134c, 134d, 134f, 135, 136, and 136a; 31
U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.2(d).
Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of May 1997.
Terry L. Medley,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 97-13503 Filed 5-21-97; 8:45 am]
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