[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 165 (Thursday, August 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 46636]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22222]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 99-066-1]
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 at the USDA
Center at Riverside in the Conference Center, 4700 River Road,
Riverdale, MD. Sessions will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on September
14-15, 1999, and from 8 a.m. to 12 noon on September 16, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Joseph Annelli, Chief Staff
Veterinarian, Emergency Programs Staff, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit
41, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301) 734-8073.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary's Advisory Committee on
Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases (the Committee) advises the
Secretary of Agriculture on actions necessary to prevent the
introduction of foreign diseases of livestock and poultry into the
United States. In addition, the Committee advises the Secretary on
contingency planning and on maintaining a state of preparedness to deal
with these diseases, if introduced.
The meeting will focus on the U.S. animal health emergency
management system and the foreign animal disease situation worldwide
and its relevance to the United States. The meeting will be open to the
public. However, due to the time constraints, the public will not be
allowed to participate in the Committee's discussions.
You may obtain an agenda for the meeting by contacting Dr. Joseph
Annelli at the address listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
You may file written statements on meeting topics with the Committee
before or after the meeting by sending them to Dr. Joseph Annelli at
the address listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. You may also
file written comments at the time of the meeting. Please refer to
Docket No. 99-066-1 when submitting your comments.
This notice of meeting is given pursuant to section 10 of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of August 1999.
Bobby R. Acord,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 99-22222 Filed 8-25-99; 8:45 am]
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