[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1051-1052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-88]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2011-0115]


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 25, 2012, 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: Dr. C. Stephen Roney, Senior 
Coordinator, National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, 1506 
Klondike Road, Suite 300, 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

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function by acting as liaison between the poultry industry and the 
Department in matters pertaining to poultry health.
    Topics for discussion at the upcoming meeting include:
    1. Use of performance standards in the NPIP regulations.
    2. The Food and Drug Administration's egg safety rule and NPIP 
salmonella testing equivalency update.
    3. Compartmentalization.
    4. 2012 Biennial Conference.
    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. APHIS-2011-0115 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 3rd day of January 2012.
Gregory L. Parham,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2012-88 Filed 1-6-12; 8:45 am]
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