[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 150 (Friday, August 3, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46374-46375]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19025]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2012-0044]


National Poultry Improvement Plan; General Conference Committee 
Meeting and 41st Biennial Conference

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 (NPIP) and the 
NPIP's 41st Biennial Conference.

DATES: The General Conference Committee meeting will be held on 
September 25, 2012, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Biennial Conference will 
meet on September 26, 2012, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on September 27, 
2012, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Loews New Orleans Hotel, 300 
Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. C. Stephen Roney, Senior 
Coordinator, National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, 1506 
Klondike Road, Suite 300, Conyers, GA 30094-5173, (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 a liaison between the poultry
    industry and the Department in matters pertaining to poultry 
health. The Committee meets to discuss significant poultry health 
issues and makes recommendations to improve the NPIP program.
    Topics for discussion at the upcoming meetings include:
    1. Salmonella testing.
    2. Technical Committee report.
    3. Avian influenza.
    4. USDA regulatory review.
    The meetings will be open to the public. However, due to time 
constraints, the public will not be allowed to provide oral comments 
pertaining to the discussions during either of the meetings. 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.

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APHIS-2012-0044 when submitting your statements.
    If you require special accommodations, such as a sign language 
interpreter, please call or write the individual listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    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 30th day of July 2012.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2012-19025 Filed 8-2-12; 8:45 am]
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