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[FR Doc No: 94-11679]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 94-031-1]

 

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 the 
Harbor Room of the Comfort Suites Laurel Lakes, 14402 Laurel Place, 
Laurel, Maryland 20707, (301) 206-2600. The Committee will meet on June 
28-30, 1994. Sessions will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 28 and 
29, and from 8 a.m. to noon on June 30.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. John Williams, Senior Staff 
Veterinarian, Emergency Programs Staff, Veterinary Services, APHIS, 
USDA, room 745, Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 
20782, (301) 436-8092.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary's Advisory Committee on 
Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases (FAPD) 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. 
FAPD also advises the Secretary of Agriculture on prevention of these 
diseases.
    Tentative topics for discussion include: Trade issues; the world 
disease situation, including hog cholera in Mexico; screwworm 
eradication; the import and export of animals and animal products; 
regionalization and risk assessment in international trade; emergency 
response for food safety issues involving residues, natural disasters, 
or other threats; an avian influenza update; and bovine spongiform 
encephalopathy. FAPD will also develop recommendations and prepare 
comments on control and eradication guides for foot-and-mouth disease 
and other foreign animal diseases.
    The meeting will be open to the public. Written statements 
concerning meeting topics may be filed with FAPD before the meeting by 
sending them to Dr. John Williams at the address listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Written comments may also be filed at the 
time of the meeting. Please refer to Docket No. 94-031-1 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 9th day of May 1994.
Lonnie J. King,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 94-11679 Filed 5-12-94; 8:45 am]
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