[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 4 (Monday, January 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1200-1201]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2007-0155]


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 meeting will be held on January 23, 2008, from 1:30 p.m. to 
5 p.m.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Andrew R. Rhorer, Senior 
Coordinator, National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, 1498 
Klondike Road, Suite 101, Conyers, GA 30094; (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, the Committee assists the Department in planning, organizing, 
and conducting the NPIP Biennial Conference.
    Topics for discussion at the upcoming meeting include:
    1. Appointment of a Member-at-Large;
    2. National animal identification program for poultry;
    3. Portland, ME, Biennial Planning Conference and proposed changes 
to the NPIP;
    4. Compartmentalization of notifiable avian influenza free zones;
    5. Interstate and intrastate movement of table eggs in the event of 
a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak;
    6. Update on Mycoplasma diseases;
    7. Update on Salmonella enteriditis and S. montevideo;
    8. National Chicken Council report; and
    9. Proposed changes to the NPIP for 2008.
    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

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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. APHIS-2007-0155 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 31st day of December 2007.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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