G/SPS/N/USA/2676/Add.1  
 
17 April 2015  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 15 April 2015, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Determination of the African Horse Sickness Status of Saudi Arabia (Docket 
No. APHIS-2014-0013) 
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public of our determination that Saudi Arabia is free of African horse sickne ss (AHS). Based on our evaluation of the animal 
health status of Saudi Arabia, which we made available to the public for review and comment 
through a previous notice, the Administrator has determined that AHS is not present in 
Saudi Arabia and that the importation of horses, mules, zebras, and other equids from Saudi Arabia presents a low risk of introducing AHS into the United States. 
This notice is available in English at: http://www.regulations.gov/ #!documentDetail;D=APHIS-
2014-0013-0016 . 
Federal Register Vol. 80, No. 60, Monday 30 March 2015, pages 16616-16620 
On 12 June 2014, APHIS published in the Federal Register (79 FR 33714-33715, Docket 
No. APHIS-2014-0013) a notice in which we announced the availability for review and comment of 
our evaluation of the animal health status of Saudi Arabia relative to AHS. In that document, titled "APHIS Evaluation of the African Horse Sickness (AHS) Status of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" 
(November 2013), we presented the results of our ev aluation of the risk of introducing AHS into 
the United States via the importation of equids from Saudi Arabia.  We solicited comments on the 
notice for 60 days ending on 11 August 2014. We received 11 comments by that date. 
This notice is available in English at: http://www.regulations.gov/ #!documentDetail;D=APHIS-
2014-0013-0001 . 
This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of  previously notified draft regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation 
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force 
[ ] Other:   
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potent ially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, norm ally of at least 60 calendar days. Under 
other circumstances, such as extension of or iginally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Effective 30 March 2015 G/SPS/N/USA/2676/Add.1 
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle co mments: [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax nu mber and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
Dr. Chip Wells, Senior Staff Ve terinarian, Regionalization Evaluation Services, Sanitary Trade 
Issues Team, National Import Export Services, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 38, Riverdale, 
MD 20737-1231; Tel: + 1(301) 851 3300  
Text(s) available from: [X] National Notificati on Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Auth ority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service,  
International Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250; 
Tel: +(1 202) 720 1301; Fax: +(1 202) 720 0433; E-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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