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[FR Doc 03-28293] 26. Importation of Fruits and Vegetables; Correction
In a final rule published in the Federal Register on June 25, 2003, we amended the fruits and vegetables regulations. The final rule contained errors in the rule portion of the document. This document corrects those errors.
Published: 2003-11-12 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-27611] 27. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal Risk Regions and Importation of
We are proposing to amend the regulations regarding the importation of animals and animal products to recognize a category of regions that present a minimal risk of introducing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) into the United States via live ruminants and ruminant products, and are proposing to add Canada to this category. We are also
Published: 2003-11-04 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-27640] 28. Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002; Possession, Use, and
We are amending the regulations governing the possession, use, and transfer of listed biological agents and toxins in order to allow for the issuance of provisional registration certificates for individuals and entities and provisional grants of access to listed biological agents and toxins for individuals. These provisional measures are designed
Published: 2003-11-03 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-27540] 29. Interstate Movement of Swine Within a Production System; Inspection of Swine
We are amending the regulations pertaining to the interstate movement of swine by limiting the requirement for mandatory veterinary inspections, at intervals of 30 days or less, to swine that are or will be in the process of moving interstate within a swine production system and to the premises on which such swine are housed. With this change,
Published: 2003-11-03 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-27539] 30. Veterinary Services User Fees; Fee for Use of Animal Ramp at Miami
We are amending the regulations to establish a user fee for a Governmentowned ramp at Miami International Airport used to move animals off of and onto airplanes. Prior to the establishment of this user fee, we were able to recover the cost of labor in supervising and assisting importers and exporters in the ramp's use through existing user fees,
Published: 2003-11-03 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-27149] 31. Mexican Fruit Fly; Removal of Regulated Area
We are amending the Mexican fruit fly regulations by removing a portion of San Diego County, CA, from the list of regulated areas and by removing restrictions on the interstate movement of regulated articles from this area. This action is necessary to relieve restrictions that are no longer needed to prevent the spread of the Mexican fruit fly
Published: 2003-10-28 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-27150] 32. Notice of Request for Approval of an Information Collection
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to initiate a new information collection activity to support the National Nonambulatory Livestock Study.
Published: 2003-10-28 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-27148] 33. Importation of Artificially Dwarfed Plants in Growing Media From the People's
We are reopening the comment period for an environmental assessment prepared for a proposal to allow the importation of artificially dwarfed (penjing) plants of the genera Buxus, Ehretia (Carmona), Podocarpus, Sageretia, and Serissa from the People's Republic of China in an approved growing medium subject to specified growing, inspection, and
Published: 2003-10-28 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26784] 34. Update of Nursery Stock Regulations; Correction
We are correcting an error in the rule portion of a final rule that amended the regulations for importing nursery stock to require additional certifications for imported niger seed and lilac, to reflect changes in plant taxonomy and pest distributions, and to make various changes to the requirements for postentry quarantine of imported plants. The
Published: 2003-10-23 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26786] 35. Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information Collection
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey.
Published: 2003-10-23 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26787] 36. Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information Collection
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations for user fees for processing applications and permits to import certain animals and animal products.
Published: 2003-10-23 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26785] 37. Hydrilla; Availability of an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No
We are advising the public that an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact have been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to the continued release of the nonindigenous leafmining flies Hydrellia pakistanae Deonier and H. balciunasi Bock (Diptera: Ephydridae) as biological control agents to
Published: 2003-10-23 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26042] 38. Change in Disease Status of East Anglia With Regard to Classical Swine Fever
We are amending the regulations governing the importation of certain animals, meat, and other animal products by restoring East Anglia, a region of England that includes the counties of Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, to the list of regions considered free of classical swine fever. This final rule follows an interim rule that removed East Anglia from
Published: 2003-10-16 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26174] 39. Plum Pox Compensation
We are proposing to amend the plum pox compensation regulations to provide additional compensation to affected growers, under certain conditions. We are proposing to provide additional compensation to growers who have already been paid under the existing regulations, which provide for payments based on a 3year fallow period, but who are prohibited
Published: 2003-10-16 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26043] 40. Imported Fire Ant; Approved Treatments
We are amending the imported fire ant regulations by adding the insecticide methoprene (Extinguish[reg]) to the list of chemicals that are authorized for the treatment of regulated articles. This product is registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use against the imported fire ant and has been found efficacious based on testing
Published: 2003-10-15 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-26044] 41. Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information Collection
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations for the interstate movement of swine within a production system.
Published: 2003-10-15 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25881] 42. Emerald Ash Borer; Quarantine and Regulations
We are quarantining 13 counties in Michigan because of the emerald ash borer and restricting the interstate movement of regulated articles from these quarantined areas. This action is necessary on an emergency basis to prevent the artificial spread of this plant pest from infested areas in the State of Michigan to noninfested areas of the United
Published: 2003-10-14 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25882] 43. Sapote Fruit Fly
We are adopting as a final rule, without change, two interim rules regarding sapote fruit fly. The first interim rule established regulations restricting the movement of regulated articles from a newly established quarantined area in Hidalgo County, TX. The second interim rule removed the quarantine on that portion of Hidalgo County, TX, and thus
Published: 2003-10-14 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc C3-25253] 44. Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information Collection
Correction
In notice document 0325253 beginning on page 57653 in the issue of
Monday, October 6, 2003, the subject heading is corrected to read as set forth above.
[FR Doc. C325253 Filed 101003; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 150501D
Published: 2003-10-14 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25883] 45. Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information Collection
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations for the commercial transportation of equines to slaughtering facilities.
Published: 2003-10-14 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25788] 46. Animal Welfare; Transportation of Animals on Foreign Air Carriers
In this document, we are giving notice of, and requesting comment on, our intent to begin applying the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulations and standards for the humane transportation of animals in commerce to all foreign air carriers operating to or from any point within the United States, its territories, possessions, or the District of
Published: 2003-10-10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25251] 47. Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products; Determination of Moisture
We are amending the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act regulations for the determination of moisture content in desiccated biological products to require that such determinations be made using a gravimetric method that expresses moisture content as the percentage of weight a product loses during a drying cycle, and to require that the maximum percentage of
Published: 2003-10-06 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25252] 48. Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products; Standard Requirements for
We are proposing to amend the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act regulations concerning Standard Requirements for Bovine Virus Diarrhea Vaccine, Killed Virus, and Bovine Rhinotracheitis Vaccine, Killed Virus, to require that those vaccines elicit specific antibody titer that is at least 80 percent of the geometric mean antibody titer obtained in the vaccinates
Published: 2003-10-06 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25253] 49. Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products; Standard Requirements for
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations for the interstate movement of plants and plant products from the District of Columbia.
Published: 2003-10-06 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[FR Doc 03-25254] 50. Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information Collection
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection in support of regulations for the importation of fruits and vegetables.
Published: 2003-10-06 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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