[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: 9CFR73.1b]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 73_SCABIES IN CATTLE--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  73.1b  Quarantine policy.

    Under the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.), the 
Secretary may promulgate regulations and may prohibit or restrict the 
movement in interstate commerce of any animal, article, or means of 
conveyance as the Secretary determines necessary to prevent the 
introduction or dissemination

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of any pest or disease of livestock. Pursuant to this authority, the 
Department has quarantined various areas because of cattle scabies and 
has issued the regulations in this part governing the interstate 
movement of cattle from such areas. It is the policy of the Department 
to quarantine those portions of any State that are clearly identifiable, 
and in which exist animals affected with cattle scabies, or mites which 
are the contagion of said disease and not to quarantine an entire State 
for cattle scabies if the State adopts and enforces requirements for the 
intrastate movement of cattle that are at least as stringent as the 
requirements in the regulations in this part for interstate movements of 
cattle. Further, it is the policy of the Department to remove the 
quarantine from any quarantined area when it is determined that scabies-
affected animals and the mites which are the contagion of scabies no 
longer exist in such areas.

[38 FR 31671, Nov. 16, 1973, as amended at 68 FR 6343, Feb. 7, 2003]