[Federal Register: March 27, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 60)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 16179]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr27mr08-1]
========================================================================
Rules and Regulations
Federal Register
________________________________________________________________________
This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains regulatory documents
having general applicability and legal effect, most of which are keyed
to and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which is published
under 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.
The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by the Superintendent of Documents.
Prices of new books are listed in the first FEDERAL REGISTER issue of each
week.
========================================================================
[[Page 16179]]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
9 CFR Part 94
[Docket No. APHIS-2007-0142]
Addition of Armenia to the List of Regions Where African Swine
Fever Exists
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Affirmation of interim rule as final rule.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim
rule that amended the regulations concerning the importation of animals
and animal products by adding Armenia to the list of regions where
African swine fever exists. We took that action because outbreaks of
African swine fever had been confirmed in various locations in the
northern portion of Armenia. The interim rule was necessary to prevent
the introduction of African swine fever into the United States.
DATES: Effective on March 27, 2008, we are adopting as a final rule the
interim rule published at 73 FR 1043-1044 on January 7, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Javier Vargas, Animal Scientist,
Regionalization Evaluation Services Staff, National Center for Import
and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737-
1231; (301) 734-0756.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The regulations in 9 CFR part 94 (referred to below as the
regulations) govern the importation of specified animals and animal
products to prevent the introduction into the United States of various
animal diseases, including rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, bovine
spongiform encephalopathy, swine vesicular disease, classical swine
fever, and African swine fever (ASF). These are dangerous and
destructive diseases of ruminants and swine.
Section 94.8 of the regulations lists regions of the world where
ASF exists or is reasonably believed to exist and imposes restrictions
on the importation of pork and pork products into the United States
from those regions.
In an interim rule \1\ effective and published in the Federal
Register on January 7, 2008 (73 FR 1043-1044, Docket No. APHIS-2007-
0142), we amended the regulations by adding Armenia to the list in
Sec. 94.8 of regions where ASF exists or is reasonably believed to
exist. As a result of that action, the importation into the United
States of pork and pork products from Armenia is restricted.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ To view the interim rule, go to http://www.regulations.gov/
fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2007-0142.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comments on the interim rule were required to be received on or
before March 7, 2008. We did not receive any comments. Therefore, for
the reasons given in the interim rule, we are adopting the interim rule
as a final rule without change.
This action also affirms the information contained in the interim
rule concerning Executive Order 12866 and the Regulatory Flexibility
Act, Executive Order 12988, and the Paperwork Reduction Act. Further,
for this action, the Office of Management and Budget has waived its
review under Executive Order 12866.
List of Subjects in 9 CFR Part 94
Animal diseases, Imports, Livestock, Meat and meat products, Milk,
Poultry and poultry products, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
PART 94--RINDERPEST, FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, FOWL PEST (FOWL
PLAGUE), EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE, AFRICAN SWINE FEVER, CLASSICAL
SWINE FEVER, AND BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY: PROHIBITED AND
RESTRICTED IMPORTATIONS
0
Accordingly, we are adopting as a final rule, without change, the
interim rule that amended 9 CFR part 94 and that was published at 73 FR
1043-1044 on January 7, 2008.
Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of March 2008.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. E8-6242 Filed 3-26-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-34-P