[Federal Register: May 20, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 97)]
[Notices]
[Page 29269-29270]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 05-015-2]
National Animal Identification System; Draft Strategic Plan and
Draft Program Standards
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of availability; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: We are extending the comment period for our notice of
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availability of a Draft Strategic Plan and a Draft Program Standards
document for the National Animal Identification System. This action
will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit
comments.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before July
6, 2005.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
EDOCKET: Go to http://www.epa.gov/feddocket to submit or
view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the
official public docket, and to access those documents in the public
docket that are available electronically. Once you have entered
EDOCKET, click on the ``View Open APHIS Dockets'' link to locate this
document.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send four copies
of your comment (an original and three copies) to Docket No. 05-015-1,
Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700
River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that your
comment refers to Docket No. 05-015-1.
Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on Docket
No. 05-015-1 in our reading room. The reading room is located in room
1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue,
SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.
Other Information: You may view APHIS documents published in the
Federal Register and related information on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor.html
.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Neil Hammerschmidt, Animal
Identification Officer, Eradication and Surveillance Team, National
Center for Animal Health Programs, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 43,
Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301) 734-5571; or Dr. John F. Wiemers,
National Animal Identification Staff, VS, APHIS, 2100 S. Lake Storey
Road, Galesburg, IL 61401; (309) 344-1942.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 6, 2005, we published in the Federal
Register (70 FR 23961-23963, Docket No. 05-015-1) a notice advising the
public that a Draft Strategic Plan and a Draft Program Standards
document for the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) were
available for public comment and review. The Draft Strategic Plan
describes the process of developing the NAIS, in particular the
timeline for full implementation, while the Draft Program Standards
document presents our current view of how the system would work when
fully implemented.
The notice of availability also included questions intended to
solicit comments on various aspects of the two documents on which we
were particularly interested in receiving feedback from the public. In
the notice, we solicited comments for 30 days, ending June 6, 2005.
In this document, we are extending the comment period for Docket
No. 05-015-1 for an additional 30 days, until July 6, 2005. This action
will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit
comments.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.
Done in Washington, DC, this 17th day of May 2005.
Elizabeth E. Gaston,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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