G/SPS/N/USA/2807/Add.1  
 
15 August 2016  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 15 August 2016, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of  the United States of America . 
 
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Notice: Concurrence with World Organization for Animal Health Risk Desig nations for Bovine 
Spongiform Encephalopathy Docket # (APHIS -2015-0055) 
APHIS is advising the public of our decision to concur with the World Organization for Animal 
Health's (OIE) bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk designations for 14 regions. T he OIE 
recognizes these regions as being of negligible risk for BSE. We are taking this action based on our 
review of information supporting the OIE's risk designations for these regions.  
This notice is available in English at: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=APHIS -2015-
0055-0004. 
Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 154/Wednesday , 10 August 2016/pgs. 52811 -52812  
In accordance with that process, we published a notice in the Federal R egister on 4 December 
2015 (80 FR 75849, Docket No. APHIS -2015-0055), in which we announced our intent to concur 
with the OIE risk designations for 16 regions. The OIE recognizes these regions as being of 
negligible risk for BSE. We solicited comments on t he notice for 60 days ending on 2 February 
2016. We received two comments by that date, from a private citizen and a representative of a 
foreign government.  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adopti on, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[X] 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 potentially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Un der 
other circumstances, such as extension of originally 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 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ]  National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of 
other body:  
Dr Roberta Morales, Senior Staff Veterinarian, Regionalization Evaluation Services, National Import 
Export Services, VS, APHIS, 920 Main Campus Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27606; +(919) 855 
7735  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250; Tel: +(1 202) 
720 1301; Fax: +(1 202) 72 0 0433; E -mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
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