[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR72.17]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 72--TEXAS (SPLENETIC) FEVER IN CATTLE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 72.17  Unloading noninfected cattle for rest, feed, and water only, permitted in authorized pens for such purpose.

    (a) Specifications for construction and maintenance. Cattle of the 
free area, and cattle of the quarantined area when properly dipped, 
inspected, and certified in accordance with this part, which are 
transported interstate by rail through the quarantined area shall not be 
unloaded therein for rest, feed, and water unless they are unloaded into 
the properly equipped, noninfectious pens set apart for such cattle at 
such points as may from time to time be authorized by APHIS. Such 
noninfectious pens and the platforms, chutes, and alleys leading thereto 
shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the 
specifications set out in paragraphs (a)(1) to (6) of this section.
    (1) The outside fences enclosing such pens, and the fences on either 
side of the alleys, chutes, and platforms leading thereto, shall be 
tight board fences not less than 6 feet high on the inside.
    (2) If such pens, alleys, chutes, and platforms are adjacent to 
pens, alleys, chutes, and platforms used by cattle of the quarantined 
area, there shall be between them a space not less than 10 feet wide, 
which shall be inaccessible to livestock. This space shall be limited on 
each side by the 6-foot fence required by paragraph (a)(1) of this 
section. The remaining space around such yards shall be limited as in 
paragraph (a)(3) of this section.
    (3) If such pens, alleys, chutes, and platforms are isolated from 
other pens, alleys, chutes, or platforms, there shall be built and 
maintained outside thereof on all sides to which cattle of the vicinity 
might otherwise approach a cattle-proof fence not less than 5 feet high 
and not less than 15 feet from the 6-foot fence required by paragraph 
(a)(1) of this section.
    (4) The only means of egress from such pens shall be by way of the 
alleys, chutes, and platforms inclosed by 6-foot fences as required by 
paragraph (a)(1) of this section, to cars for reforwarding; and under no 
circumstances shall there exist any connection between such pens and 
other adjacent premises.
    (5) Such noninfectious premises shall be so located, or such 
drainage facilities shall be provided therefor, that water from the 
surrounding area will not flow on to or through them.
    (6) Such pens shall be marked by a conspicuous sign bearing the 
words ``Noninfectious Pens'' in letters not less than 10 inches in 
height.
    (b) Materials for use in noninfectious pens; source, shipment, 
handling. The hay, straw, or similar materials required for feed and 
bedding in such noninfectious pens shall be shipped in noninfectious 
cars from points outside of the quarantined area so handled that they 
may not become infectious.

[28 FR 5940, June 13, 1963, as amended at 56 FR 51975, Oct. 17, 1991]