G/SPS/N/USA/2628/Add.1  
 
18 July 2014  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 17 July 2014, 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 No. APHIS-2011-
0101) 
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Servic e (APHIS) is amending the National Poultry 
Improvement Plan (NPIP, the Plan) and its auxili ary provisions by removing the descriptions of 
specific tests and sanitation procedures from the re gulations. Instead, we will require tests to be 
performed and sanitation to be maintained in a manner approved by the Administrator. Approved 
procedures will be listed in an NPIP Program Standards document, which we are making available 
on the NPIP Web site. In addition, we are establishing new compartment classifications for defined 
subpopulations of primary breeding turkeys, prim ary egg-type chickens, and primary meat-type 
chickens. We are also providing new or modified sampling and testing procedures for Plan participants and participating flocks. The changes in this final rule were voted on and approved by the voting delegates at the Plan's 2010 and 2012 National Plan Conferences. These changes will 
streamline the provisions of the Plan, keep those provisions current with changes in the poultry 
industry, and provide for the use of new sampling and testing procedures. 
This notice is available in English at: http://www.regulations.gov/ #!documentDetail;D=APHIS-
2011-0101-0016 . 
Federal Register Vol. 79, No. 131, Wednesday, 9 July 2014, pages 38752-38768. 
On 28 January 2014, we published in the Federal Register (79 FR 4538-4567, Docket No. APHIS-
2011-0101) a proposal to amend the regulations by removing tests and detailed testing 
procedures, as well as sanitation procedures, from part 147, and making these available in an NPIP Program Standards document. In addition, we proposed to establish US H5/H7 Avian Influenza Clean Compartment and US Avian Influenza Clean Compartment classifications for 
defined subpopulations of primary breeding turk eys, primary egg-type breeding chickens, and 
primary meat-type breeding chickens. We also proposed several other changes. We solicited comments concerning our proposal for 60 days ending 31 March 2014. We received 11 comments 
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:   G/SPS/N/USA/2628/Add.1 
 
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  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) : This rule is effective 8 August 2014. 
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: 
For further information contact Dr. Denise Brinson, DVM, Director, National Poultry Improvement 
Plan, VS, APHIS, USDA, 1506 Kl ondike Road, Suite 101, Cony ers, GA 30094-5104; +(770) 922 
3496.  
Text 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 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) 720 0433; E-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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