[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 113 (Monday, June 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 36885]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14780]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. 00-048-1]


National Poultry Improvement Plan; General Conference Committee 
Meeting and Biennial Conference

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 and of the Biennial 
Conference.

DATES: The General Conference Committee will meet on June 29, 2000, 
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Biennial Conference will meet on June 30, 
2000, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on July 1, 2000, from 8 a.m. to noon.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 1775 East 
Cheyenne Mountain Boulevard, Colorado Springs, CO.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Andrew R. Rhorer, Senior 
Coordinator, National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, 1498 
Klondike Road, Suite 200, Conyers, GA 30094-1231; (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 Biennial Conference.
    Topics for discussion at the upcoming meetings include:
    1. Establishment of ``U.S. Salmonella Enteritidis Clean State'' 
classifications for egg-and meat-type chickens.
    2. Establishment of a ``U.S. Salmonella Enteritidis Monitored'' 
program for commercial table egg pullets.
    3. Good management practices for the control of Salmonella and 
Mycoplasma infections in poultry.
    4. Review of the laboratory protocol for the isolation and 
identification of Salmonella.
    5. Review of the approval system for authorized laboratories of the 
NPIP.
    The meetings will be open to the public. The sessions held on June 
30 and July 1, 2000, will include delegates to the NPIP Biennial 
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 discussions during 
either of the meetings. Written statements on meeting topics may be 
filed with the Committee before or after the meetings by sending them 
to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Written 
statements may also be filed at the meetings. Please refer to Docket 
No. 00-048-1 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 7th day of June 2000.
Craig A. Reed,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 00-14780 Filed 6-9-00; 8:45 am]
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