[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 176 (Thursday, September 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53539-53540]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-23126]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. 03-041-1]


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, Director, 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

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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 4th day of September, 2003.
Peter Fernandez,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 03-23126 Filed 9-10-03; 8:45 am]
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