[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 169 (Thursday, August 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 45396]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22108]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 96-059-1]


Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No 
Significant Impact

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service has prepared an environmental assessment and a 
finding of no significant impact for the field testing of an unlicensed 
veterinary biological product. A risk analysis, which forms the basis 
for the environmental assessment, has led us to conclude that field 
testing this unlicensed veterinary biological product will not have a 
significant impact on the quality of the human environment. Based on 
our finding of no significant impact, we have determined that an 
environmental impact statement need not be prepared.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the environmental assessment and finding of no 
significant impact may be obtained by writing to the person listed 
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please refer to the docket 
number and publication date of this notice, as well as the first two 
words of the product name, when requesting copies. Copies of the 
environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact (as well 
as the risk analysis with confidential business information removed) 
are also available for public inspection at USDA, room 1141, South 
Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC, 
between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. 
Persons wishing to inspect those documents are requested to call ahead 
on (202) 690-2817 to facilitate entry into the reading room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dr. Jeanette Greenberg, Veterinary Biologics, BBEP, APHIS, 4700 River 
Road Unit 148, Riverdale, MD 20737-1237; telephone (301) 734-8400; fax 
(301) 734-8910; or E-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act (21 U.S.C. 
151 et seq.), a veterinary biological product must be shown to be pure, 
safe, potent, and efficacious before a veterinary biological product 
license may be issued. A field test is generally necessary to satisfy 
prelicensing requirements for veterinary biological products. In order 
to ship an unlicensed veterinary biological product for the purpose of 
conducting a proposed field test, a person must receive authorization 
from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
    In determining whether to authorize shipment for field testing the 
unlicensed veterinary biological product referenced in this notice, 
APHIS conducted a risk analysis to assess the potential effect of this 
product on the safety of animals, public health, and the environment. 
Based on that risk analysis, APHIS has prepared an environmental 
assessment. APHIS has concluded that field testing this unlicensed 
veterinary biological product will not significantly affect the quality 
of the human environment. Based on this finding of no significant 
impact, we have determined that there is no need to prepare an 
environmental impact statement.
    An environmental assessment and a finding of no significant impact 
have been prepared for field testing the following unlicensed 
veterinary biological product:

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             Requester                              Product                         Field test locations        
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Oxford Veterinary Laboratories, Inc  Feline Rhinotracheitis Vaccine,        California, Colorado, Illinois,     
                                      Modified Live Virus.                   Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska.            
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    The environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact 
have been prepared in accordance with: (1) The National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), (2) Regulations of 
the Council on Environmental Quality for implementing the procedural 
provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), (3) USDA regulations 
implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS' NEPA Implementing 
Procedures (7 CFR part 372).
    Unless substantial environmental issues are raised in response to 
this notice, APHIS intends to authorize the shipment of the above 
product and the initiation of the field tests on September 12, 1996.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 22nd day of August 1996.
A. Strating,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 96-22108 Filed 8-28-96; 8:45 am]
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