[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 122 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 96-16031]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 96-008-2]


Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry 
Diseases; Notice of Renewal

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of renewal.

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SUMMARY: We are giving notice that the Secretary of Agriculture has 
renewed the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and 
Poultry Diseases for a 2-year period. The Secretary has determined that 
the Committee is necessary and in the public interest.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. John Williams, Chief Staff 
Veterinarian, Emergency Programs, VS, APHIS, Suite 3B08, 4700 River 
Road Unit 41, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236, (301) 734-8073.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Secretary's Advisory 
Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases (Committee) is to 
advise the Secretary of Agriculture regarding program operations and 
measures 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. The 
Committee also advises the Secretary of Agriculture of means to prevent 
these diseases.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 12th day of June 1996.
Wardell Townsend, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-16031 Filed 6-21-96; 8:45 am]
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