[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 34 (Friday, February 18, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 9537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-3728]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2010-0125]


Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal Health; Meetings

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice to inform the public of three upcoming 
meetings of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal Health. The 
meetings are being organized by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service to discuss matters of animal health, including the pending 
proposed rule implementing USDA's traceability framework and 
establishing an aquaculture subcommittee.

DATES: The meetings will be held March 4, 2011, May 13, 2011, and July 
15, 2011 from noon to 5 p.m. (eastern time) each day.

ADDRESSES: Each meeting will be conducted as a teleconference. 
Opportunities for public participation are described in the 
Supplementary Information section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Michael R. Doerrer, Chief 
Operating Officer, Veterinary Services, APHIS, USDA, 4700 River Road, 
Unit 37, Riverdale, MD 20737; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal 
Health (the Committee) advises the Secretary of Agriculture on means to 
prevent, conduct surveillance on, monitor, control, or eradicate animal 
diseases of national importance. In doing so, the Committee will 
consider public health, conservation of natural resources, and the 
stability of livestock economies. Among the key animal health issues 
the Committee will help the Secretary evaluate will be animal disease 
traceability.
    Animal disease traceability will be the primary discussion topic at 
the meeting on March 4, 2011. APHIS has spent much of the past year 
developing a framework for animal disease traceability in the United 
States. Through the framework, APHIS will implement a flexible yet 
coordinated approach to animal disease traceability that embraces the 
strengths and expertise of States, Tribes, and producers and empowers 
them to find and use the traceability approaches that work best for 
them.
    APHIS has conducted extensive outreach on the traceability 
framework and continues to seek input by using the Committee. We are 
developing the proposed rule and the traceability performance standards 
collaboratively and transparently. This helps us ensure that practical 
animal disease traceability options evolve.
    Additional details regarding each meeting, including the 
preliminary and final agendas, will be posted on the Committee's Web 
site at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/acah/ in advance of 
each meeting. Copies of agendas may also be obtained from the person 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at the beginning of this 
notice.

Public Participation

    All meetings will be open to the public, although public 
participants will be joined to the call in ``observation'' or ``listen 
only'' mode. Members of the public who wish to participate in a 
teleconference must notify the Committee by sending an e-mail through 
an access portal on the Committee's Web site or by e-mailing the 
Committee directly at [email protected]. In your e-mail, 
please provide your name and organizational affiliation (if any) and 
identify the meeting(s) you wish to join. The Committee will reply with 
a telephone number and participant pass code that will allow you to 
join the meeting.
    Questions and written statements for the first meeting on March 4, 
2011, may be submitted by or before March 1, 2011, for the Committee's 
consideration. For the meetings to be held in May and July, questions 
and written statements may be submitted up to 5 days before those 
meetings. Questions and written statements may be sent via e-mail to 
[email protected] or mailed to the person listed under 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at the beginning of this notice. 
Statements may also be filed with the Committee after the meeting by 
sending them to [email protected].
    This notice of meeting is given pursuant to section 10 of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2).

    Done in Washington, DC this 15th day of February 2011.
Gregory Parham,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-3728 Filed 2-17-11; 8:45 am]
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