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[FR Doc No: 94-18034]
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[Federal Register: July 25, 1994]
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[Docket No. 94-073-1]
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 finding
of no significant impact for the issuance of a veterinary biological
product license. A risk analysis, which forms the basis for the
environmental assessment, has led us to conclude that issuance of this
license 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.
In determining whether to issue a license for the veterinary
biological product referenced in this notice, the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) conducted a risk analysis to assess
the product's potential effect 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 issuance of a
veterinary biological product license for the veterinary biological
product referenced in this notice will not significantly affect the
quality of the human environment. Based on the 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 issuance of a veterinary biological product
license for the following veterinary biological product: Newcastle
Disease-Fowlpox Vaccine, Live Fowlpox Vector; Code 17C1.R0; to be
issued to SyntroVet Incorporated, Establishment License No. 314.
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 19th day of July 1994.
Lonnie J. King,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 94-18034 Filed 7-22-94; 8:45 am]
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