[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 96 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 24757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12333]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
[Docket No. 96-023-1]


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 TIME OF MEETING: The meeting and conference will be 
held at the Nashville Airport Marriott, 600 Marriott Drive, Nashville, 
Tennessee; (615) 889-9300. The General Conference Committee will meet 
on June 30, from 8 a.m to 5 p.m. The Biennial Conference will meet on 
July 1, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on July 2, from 8 a.m. to noon.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Andrew Rhorer, Senior Coordinator, 
National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, 1500 Klondike Road, Suite 
A 102, Conyers, GA, 30207, (770) 922-3496.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The General Conference Committee (the 
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 Conference.
    Tentative topics for discussion at the upcoming meeting include:
    1. Creation of a U.S. Salmonella Control classification for primary 
breeding chickens.
    2. Creation of a U.S. Mycoplasma Synoviae Clean classification for 
waterfowl, exhibition poultry and game birds.
    3. Creation of a U.S. Salmonella Enteritidis Clean classification 
for waterfowl, exhibition poultry and game birds.
    4. Creation of a U.S. Mycoplasma Gallisepticum Monitored program 
for multiplier meat-type chicken breeding flocks.
    5. Creation of a new subpart F for the Ostrich within the NPIP.
    6. Creation of a U.S. Salmonella Enteritidis Monitored, Started 
Poultry, program for the commercial egg-type pullet industry.
    The meetings will be open to the public. The sessions held on July 
1 and 2, 1996, will include the delegates to the Biennial NPIP 
Conference, representing State officials and poultry industry personnel 
from the 48 cooperating States. However, due to time constraints, the 
public will not be allowed to participate in the Committee's 
discussions. Written statements on meeting topics may be filed with the 
Committee before or after the meeting by sending them to the person 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Written statements may 
also be filed at the meeting. Please refer to Docket No. 96-023-1 when 
submitting your statements.
    This notice of meeting is given pursuant to section 10 of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 10th day of May 1996.
Lonnie J. King,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 96-12333 Filed 5-15-96; 8:45 am]
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