[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR53.2]

[Page 164]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 53_FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, PLEUROPNEUMONIA, RINDERPEST, AND 
CERTAIN OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF LIVESTOCK OR POULTRY--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  53.2  Determination of existence of disease; agreements with States.

    (a) The Administrator is hereby authorized to invite the proper 
State authorities to cooperate with the Department in the control and 
eradication of any disease within the meaning of Sec.  53.1.
    (b) Upon agreement of the authorities of the State to enforce 
quarantine restrictions and orders and directives properly issued in the 
control and eradication of such a disease, the Administrator is hereby 
authorized to agree, on the part of the Department, to cooperate with 
the State in the control and eradication of the disease, and, except as 
provided in Sec.  53.11, to pay 50 percent (and in the case of exotic 
Newcastle disease or highly pathogenic avian influenza, up to 100 
percent, and in the case of infectious salmon anemia, up to 60 percent) 
of the expenses of purchase, destruction and disposition of animals and 
materials required to be destroyed because of being contaminated by or 
exposed to such disease: Provided, however, That if the animals were 
exposed to such disease prior to or during interstate movement and are 
not eligible to receive indemnity from any State, the Department may pay 
up to 100 percent of the purchase, destruction, and disposition of 
animals and materials required to be destroyed: Provided, further, That 
the cooperative program for the purchase, destruction, and disposition 
of birds shall be limited to birds which are identified in documentation 
pursuant to Cooperative Agreements,\1\ as constituting a threat to the 
poultry industry of the United States: And provided further, That the 
Secretary may authorize other arrangements for the payment of such 
expenses upon finding that an extraordinary emergency exists.
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    \1\ Agreements between the Departments and the particular State 
involved relating to cooperative animal (including poultry) disease 
prevention, control, and eradication.

[37 FR 5689, Mar. 18, 1972, as amended at 49 FR 3448, Jan. 27, 1984; 49 
FR 26712, June 29, 1984; 61 FR 56883, Nov. 5, 1996; 67 FR 17610, Apr. 
11, 2002; 67 FR 67095, Nov. 4, 2002]