[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR2.36]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 2_REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart C_Research Facilities
 
Sec. 2.36  Annual report.

    (a) The reporting facility shall be that segment of the research 
facility, or that department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States, that uses or intends to use live animals in research, tests, 
experiments, or for teaching. Each reporting facility shall submit an 
annual report to the AC Regional Director for the State where the 
facility is located on or before December 1 of each calendar year. The 
report shall be signed and certified by the CEO or Institutional 
Official, and shall cover the previous Federal fiscal year.
    (b) The annual report shall:
    (1) Assure that professionally acceptable standards governing the 
care, treatment, and use of animals, including appropriate use of 
anesthetic, analgesic, and tranquilizing drugs, prior to, during, and 
following actual research, teaching, testing, surgery, or 
experimentation were followed by the research facility;
    (2) Assure that each principal investigator has considered 
alternatives to painful procedures;
    (3) Assure that the facility is adhering to the standards and 
regulations under the Act, and that it has required that exceptions to 
the standards and regulations be specified and explained by the 
principal investigator and approved by the IACUC. A summary of all such 
exceptions must be attached to the facility's annual report. In addition 
to identifying the IACUC-approved exceptions, this summary must include 
a brief explanation of the exceptions, as well as the species and number 
of animals affected;

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    (4) State the location of all facilities where animals were housed 
or used in actual research, testing, teaching, or experimentation, or 
held for these purposes;
    (5) State the common names and the numbers of animals upon which 
teaching, research, experiments, or tests were conducted involving no 
pain, distress, or use of pain-relieving drugs. Routine procedures 
(e.g., injections, tattooing, blood sampling) should be reported with 
this group;
    (6) State the common names and the numbers of animals upon which 
experiments, teaching, research, surgery, or tests were conducted 
involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for which 
appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs were used;
    (7) State the common names and the numbers of animals upon which 
teaching, experiments, research, surgery, or tests were conducted 
involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for which the 
use of appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs would 
have adversely affected the procedures, results, or interpretation of 
the teaching, research, experiments, surgery, or tests. An explanation 
of the procedures producing pain or distress in these animals and the 
reasons such drugs were not used shall be attached to the annual report;
    (8) State the common names and the numbers of animals being bred, 
conditioned, or held for use in teaching, testing, experiments, 
research, or surgery but not yet used for such purposes.

[54 FR 36147, Aug. 31, 1989, as amended at 63 FR 62926, Nov. 10, 1998]