[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 245 (Friday, December 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 77960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-32058]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. 02-118-1]


General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement 
Plan; 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.

DATES: The General Conference Committee will meet on January 22, 2003, 
from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Georgia World Congress 
Center, Building B, Room 408, 285 Andrew Young International Boulevard, 
NW., Atlanta, GA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Andrew R. Rhorer, Senior 
Coordinator, Poultry Improvement Staff, National Poultry Improvement 
Plan, VS, APHIS, 1498 Klondike Road, Suite 200, Conyers, GA 30094-5104; 
(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.
    The topic of discussion at the meeting will be the development of a 
low pathogenic avian influenza surveillance program for the commercial 
table egg, broiler, and turkey industries.
    The meeting will be open to the public. However, due to time 
constraints, the public will not be allowed to participate in the 
discussions during the meeting. 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. 02-118-1 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 17th day of December, 2002.
Peter Fernandez,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 02-32058 Filed 12-19-02; 8:45 am]
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