[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 31, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 5837-5838]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2316]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

9 CFR Part 51

[Docket No. 94-093-2]


Brucellosis in Cattle and Bison; Payment of Indemnity

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Affirmation of interim rule as final rule.

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SUMMARY: We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim 
rule that increased the amount of Federal indemnity for brucellosis 
reactor and brucellosis-exposed cattle and bison destroyed during herd 
depopulation, and that increased the amount of Federal indemnity for 
cattle and bison destroyed after being sold or traded from a herd 
subsequently found to be affected with brucellosis. These actions were 
necessary to give owners sufficient financial incentive to promptly 
destroy brucellosis-affected cattle and bison, in order to accelerate 
the eradication of brucellosis in the United States and to protect 
other cattle and bison from brucellosis.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 2, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. M. J. Gilsdorf, National 
Brucellosis Epidemiologist, Cattle Diseases and Surveillance Staff, 
Veterinary Services, APHIS, USDA, P.O. Drawer 810, Riverdale, MD 20738. 
The telephone number for the agency contact will change when agency 
offices in Hyattsville, MD, move to Riverdale, MD, during February 
1995. Telephone: (301) 436-4918 (Hyattsville); (301) 734-7708 
(Riverdale). [[Page 5838]] 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In an interim rule effective and published in the Federal Register 
on October 17, 1994 (59 FR 52233-52235, Docket No. 94-093-1), we 
amended the regulations regarding payment of indemnity in 9 CFR part 51 
to increase the amount of Federal indemnity for brucellosis reactor and 
brucellosis-exposed cattle and bison destroyed during herd 
depopulation, and to increase the amount of Federal indemnity for 
cattle and bison destroyed after being sold or traded from a herd that 
is subsequently found to be affected with brucellosis.
    Comments on the interim rule were required to be received on or 
before December 16, 1994. We did not receive any comments. The facts 
presented in the interim rule still provide a basis for the rule.
    This action also affirms the information contained in the interim 
rule concerning Executive Order 12866 and the Regulatory Flexibility 
Act, Executive Orders 12372 and 12778, and the Paperwork Reduction Act.
    Further, for this action, the Office of Management and Budget has 
waived the review process required by Executive Order 12866.

List of Subjects in 9 CFR Part 51

    Animal diseases, Cattle, Hogs, Indemnity payments, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

PART 51--ANIMALS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF BRUCELLOSIS

    Accordingly, we are adopting as a final rule, without change, the 
interim rule that amended 9 CFR part 51 and that was published at 59 FR 
52233-52235 on October 17, 1994.

    Authority: 21 U.S.C. 111-113, 114, 114a, 114a-1, 120, 121, 125, 
and 134b; 7 CFR 2.17, 2.51, and 371.2(d).

    Done in Washington, DC, this 25th day of January 1995.
Terry L. Medley,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 95-2316 Filed 1-30-95; 8:45 am]
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