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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
[Docket No. 94-024-1]

 

General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement 
Plan (NPIP) and the NPIP Biennial Conference; 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 General Conference 
Committee of the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) and of the 
NPIP Biennial Conference.

PLACE, DATES, AND TIMES OF MEETING: The meeting and conference will be 
held at the Nashville Airport Marriott, 600 Marriott Drive, Nashville, 
Tennessee, 37214, (615) 889-9300. The General Conference Committee will 
meet on June 26, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Biennial Conference will 
meet on June 27 and June 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and on June 
29, 1994, from 8 a.m. to noon.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Andrew Rhorer, Senior Coordinator, 
Sheep, Goat, Equine, and Poultry Diseases Staff, Veterinary Services, 
APHIS, USDA, room 205, Presidential Building, Hyattsville, MD 20782, 
(301) 436-7768.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The General Conference Committee of the 
National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), representing cooperating 
State agencies and poultry industry members, serves an essential 
function by acting as liaison between the poultry industry and the 
Department in matters pertaining to poultry health. In addition, this 
Committee assists the Department in planning, organizing, and 
conducting the NPIP Biennial Conference.
    Tentative topics for discussion include proposed changes to the 
NPIP that would:
    1. Provide for the culture of cull chicks, meconium and hatcher 
trays in egg-type flocks that have an environment positive for 
Salmonella enteritidis (SE).
    2. Propose a voluntary program for SE-tested started poultry.
    3. Provide for a mid-lay serological test of suspect breeding 
flocks for S. pullorum and S. gallinarum.
    4. Provide for the retesting of pullorum-typhoid plate positive 
serum specimens with the tube agglutination test or the 
microagglutination test for pullorum-typhoid.
    5. Add the laboratory protocol for the bacteriological examination 
of baby chicks.
    6. Amend the U.S. S. Enteritidis Monitored program for egg-type 
chickens by disqualifying a breeding flock with an SE positive 
environment and require the monitoring of rodents.
    7. Alter the number of birds monitored for M. gallisepticum (MG) in 
egg-type chickens.
    8. Alter the number of birds monitored for M. synoviae (MS) in egg-
type chickens.
    9. Approve fishmeal as an animal protein source for egg-type 
chickens.
    10. Approve fishmeal as an animal protein source for turkeys.
    11. Provide for different sample sizes of birds screened for MG 
using the enzyme-labeled immunosorbent assay test (ELISA).
    12. Provide for different sample sizes of birds screened for MS 
using ELISA.
    13. Amend the age at which Exhibition Poultry, Game Birds, and 
Waterfowl (subpart E) are blood tested for pullorum-typhoid.
    14. Create a new SE-free classification for meat-type chickens.
    15. Establish a number of serum plate positive samples that will be 
examined using the hemagglutination inhibition (HI) and/or the serum 
plate dilution (SPD) test.
    16. Establish a new MS clean-state status for turkeys.
    17. Reduce the paperwork load on subpart E hatcheries.
    The meeting and conference will be open to the public. The sessions 
will include the delegates to the Biennial NPIP Conference, 
representing State officials and poultry industry personnel from the 47 
cooperating States. However, due to time constraints, the public will 
not be allowed to participate in the committee's discussions. Persons 
interested in expressing their views concerning the above topics, or 
other aspects of the NPIP, should send their written comments to Mr. 
Andrew Rhorer 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 Number 94-024-1 when 
submitting your comments.
    Written comments received by Mr. Rhorer may be inspected in room 
205 of the Presidential Building between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except holidays.
    This notice is given in compliance with the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463).

    Done in Washington, DC, this 9th day of May 1994.
Lonnie J. King,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 94-11680 Filed 5-12-94; 8:45 am]
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