G/SPS/N/USA/2839/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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Final Rule: National Poultry Improvement Plan and Auxiliary Provisions ( Docket # APHIS -
2014-0101) 
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending the National Poultry 
Improvement Plan (NPIP), its auxiliary provisions, and the indemnity regulations for the control of 
H5 and H7 low pathogenic avian influenza.  Specifically, we are clarifying who may participate in 
the NPIP, amending participation requirements, amending definitions for poultry and breeding 
stock, amending the approval process for new diagnostic tests, and amending slaughter plant 
inspection and laboratory inspection and testing requirements. These changes will align the 
regulations with international standards and make them more transparent to Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service stakeholders and the general public. The changes in this fina l rule were 
voted on and approved by the voting delegates at the Plan's 2014 National Plan Conference.  
The Notice is available in English at: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=A PHIS-2014-
0101-0004. 
Federal Register/Vol. 81, No. 156/Friday, 12 August 2016/pg. 53247 -53252  
On 24 March 2016, we published in the Federal Register (81 F R 15652 -15660, Docket 
No. APHIS -2014-0101) a proposal to amend the regulations by clarifying who may participate in 
the NPIP and amending participation requirements. We solicited comments concerning our 
proposal for 60 days ending 23 May 2016. We received one comment by that date.  
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 potentially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, normally of at le ast 60 calendar days. Under 
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 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable. Effective 12 September 2016.  G/SPS/N/USA/2839/Add.1  
 
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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 Denise  Brinson, DVM, Director, National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, USDA, 1506 
Klondike Road, Suite 101, Conyers, GA 30094 -5104; +(770) 922 3496  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax numb er 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; Fa x: +(1 202) 720 0433; E -mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
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