[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 118 (Tuesday, June 19, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 32923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15366]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. 00-095-1]


Secretary's Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry 
Diseases

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of reestablishment.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Joe Annelli, Chief Staff 
Veterinarian, Emergency Programs, Veterinary Services, APHIS, 4700 
River Road Unit 41, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301) 734-8073.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Secretary's Advisory 
Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases 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 11th day of June, 2001.
Paul W. Fiddick,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-15366 Filed 6-18-01; 8:45 am]
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