We are amending the regulations governing the importation of fresh (chilled or frozen) beef from Argentina by adding a requirement that Argentina certify that the beef does not come from animals that have ever been in specified areas along Argentina's borders with Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Uruguay. We are taking this action as an emergency

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are making a technical amendment to the regulations regarding the importation of horses to restore the State of Florida to the list of States approved to receive mares over 731 days of age from regions affected with contagious equine metritis. The entry for the State of Florida was inadvertently removed from that list in an earlier final rule.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the animal importation regulations by adding Oregon to the lists of States approved to receive certain mares and stallions imported into the United States from regions affected with contagious equine metritis (CEM). We are taking this action because Oregon has entered into an agreement with the Administrator of the Animal and Plant

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the regulations governing the importation of certain animals, meat, and other animal products by removing Artigas, a department in Uruguay, from the list of regions considered to be free of rinderpest and footandmouth disease. We are taking this action because the existence of footandmouth disease has been confirmed there. The

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend our citrus canker regulations to establish provisions under which eligible owners of commercial citrus groves could, subject to the availability of appropriated funds, receive payments to recover production income lost as a result of the removal of commercial citrus trees to control citrus canker. These proposed lost

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the brucellosis regulations concerning the interstate movement of cattle by changing the classification of South Dakota from Class A to Class Free. We have determined that South Dakota meets the standards for Class Free status. This action relieves certain restrictions on the interstate movement of cattle from South Dakota.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We propose to amend the Animal Welfare regulations to reflect our policy of regulating wholesale dealers of dogs intended for hunting, breeding, or security purposes. We currently regulate these dealers under the same regulations in place for wholesale dealers of other dogs. This action would make the regulations consistent with our policy and

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are reopening and extending the comment period for our proposed rule that would amend our regulations to allow artificially dwarfed (penjing) plants of the genera Buxus, Ehretia (Carmona), Podocarpus, Sageretia, and Serissa to be imported into the United States from the People's Republic of China in an approved growing medium subject to

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are giving notice of a meeting of the General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement Plan.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

A draft guideline titled ``Pharmacovigilance of Veterinary Medicinal Products: Management of Adverse Event Reports'' has been developed by the International Cooperation on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products (VICH). The draft guideline deals with the spontaneous reporting system for

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

In a final rule published in the Federal Register on October 18, 1999, we amended the Animal Welfare regulations to require that a perimeter fence be placed around outdoor housing facilities for marine mammals and certain other regulated animals. This document contains a correction to the list of large felines published in the final rule. Bobcats

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the bovine tuberculosis regulations to recognize two separate zones with different tuberculosis risk classifications in the State of Texas. This action is necessary to prevent the spread of tuberculosis and to further the progress of the domestic bovine tuberculosis eradication program.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

This is to notify the aquaculture industries, interested parties, and the general public that a public meeting will be held to discuss how and to what extent the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service should regulate aquatic species, and to discuss any other issues concerning possible regulation of aquaculture by the Agency.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are issuing this notice to inform producers and users of veterinary biological products, and other interested individuals, that we will be holding our tenth annual public meeting to discuss regulatory and policy issues related to the manufacture, distribution, and use of veterinary biological products. We are in the process of planning the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the regulations for the importation of Spanish Pure Breed horses from Spain by removing the requirement that the health certificate accompanying imported Spanish Pure Breed horses from Spain specify that the horses, since reaching breeding age, have not been on breeding premises. In place of that requirement, we will require that

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the regulations concerning the interstate movement of cattle by changing the classification of Louisiana from Class A to Class Free. We have determined that Louisiana meets the standards for Class Free status. The interim rule relieved certain restrictions on the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the animal import regulations to require horses, ruminants, and swine that are imported from regions of the world where screwworm is considered to exist to be inspected and treated, under certain conditions, for screwworm. We are also amending the regulations to require dogs that are imported from regions of the world where

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend existing user fees for processing applications for permits to import and transport certain animal products, organisms, vectors, and germ plasm. We are also proposing to establish new user fees that would pay the cost of processing applications to import live animals. We are proposing these changes in order to ensure that

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

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 intended to prevent the introduction of fruit flies from Hawaii onto the mainland United States.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the imported fire ant regulations because infestations of imported fire ant have been discovered in additional areas in Tennessee. This action will quarantine two new counties and additional portions of four other counties. As a result of this action, the interstate movement of regulated articles from those areas will be

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to initiate the Bluetongue Surveillance Pilot Project sentinel trial, which will be an information collection activity. The purpose of the sentinel trial, which will be voluntary, is to support international

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the regulations governing the importation of certain animals, meat, and other animal products by removing KwaZulu Natal, a province in the Republic of South Africa, from the list of regions considered to be free of rinderpest and footandmouth disease. We are taking this action because the existence of footandmouth disease has been

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the regulations concerning overtime services provided by employees of Veterinary Services by adding a commuted traveltime allowance for travel between DallasFort Worth International Airport and the metropolitan area. Commuted traveltime allowances are the periods of time required for Veterinary Services employees to travel from

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

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 our seed analysis program with Canada.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Correction

In rule document 0027054 beginning on page 63502 in the issue of Monday, October 23, 2000, make the following correction:

Sec. 77.11 [Corrected]

On page 63521, in the second column, in Sec. 77.11(a), in the second line, ``None.'' should read ``Michigan.''
[FR Doc. C027054

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service