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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 75, No. 217 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 

1To view the notice and the evaluation, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ 

main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2009-0088. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2009–0088] 

Notice of Determination of the High 

Pathogenic Avian Influenza Subtype 

H5N1 Status of Czech Republic and 

Sweden 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our determination regarding the highly 

pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) 

subtype H5N1 status of the Czech 

Republic and Sweden, following 

outbreaks of HPAI in Sweden during 

2006 and in the Czech Republic during 

2007. Based on an evaluation of the 

animal health status of the Czech 

Republic and Sweden, which we made 

available to the public for review and 

comment through a previous notice, the 

Administrator has determined that the 

importation of live birds, poultry 

carcasses, parts or products of poultry 

carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching 

eggs) of poultry, game birds, and other 

birds from the Czech Republic and 

Sweden presents a low risk of 

introducing HPAI H5N1 into the United 

States. 

DATES: Effective Date: This 

determination is effective November 10, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Julia Punderson, Senior Staff 

Veterinarian, Regionalization Evaluation 

Services-Import, National Center for 

Import and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 

River Road Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 

20737–1231; (301) 734–4356. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 6, 2010, we published in the 

Federal Register (75 FR 17368–17370, 

Docket No. APHIS–2009–0088) a 

notice 1 in which we announced the 

availability, for review and comment, of 

an evaluation of the animal health status 

of the Czech Republic and Sweden 

relative to highly pathogenic avian 

influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1. In the 

evaluation, titled ‘‘APHIS Evaluation of 

the Status of High Pathogenicity Avian 

Influenza H5N1 (HPAI H5N1) in the 

Czech Republic and Sweden’’ (July 

2009), we presented the results of our 

evaluation of the status of HPAI H5N1 

in domestic and wild poultry in the 

Czech Republic and Sweden, in light of 

the actions taken by the Czech and 

Swedish animal health authorities since 

the outbreaks in 2006 and 2007. 

Our evaluation concluded that the 

Czech Republic and Sweden were able 

to effectively control and eradicate 

HPAI H5N1 in their domestic poultry 

populations and that animal health 

authorities have adequate control 

measures in place to rapidly identify, 

control, and eradicate the disease 

should it be reintroduced into the Czech 

Republic’s or Sweden’s wild birds or 

domestic poultry population. 

In our April 2010 notice, we stated 

that if after the close of the comment 

period we could identify no additional 

risk factors that would indicate that 

domestic poultry in the Czech Republic 

and Sweden continue to be affected 

with HPAI H5N1, we would conclude 

that the importation of live birds, 

poultry carcasses, parts of carcasses, and 

eggs (other than hatching eggs) of 

poultry, game birds, or other birds from 

the Czech Republic and Sweden 

presents a low risk of introducing HPAI 

H5N1 into the United States. 

We solicited comments on the 

evaluation for 30 days ending on May 6, 

2010. We received no comments by that 

date. Therefore we are removing our 

prohibition on the importation of these 

products from the Czech Republic and 

Sweden, into the United States. 

Specifically: 

• We are no longer requiring that 

processed poultry products from the 

Czech Republic and Sweden be 

accompanied by a Veterinary Service 

import permit and government 

certification confirming that the 

products have been treated according to 

APHIS requirements; 

• We are allowing unprocessed 

poultry products from Sweden to enter 

the United States in passenger luggage; 

however, because APHIS has not 

evaluated the virulent Newcastle 

disease status of the Czech Republic, 

unprocessed poultry products remain 

ineligible for entry into the United 

Stated in passenger luggage from that 

country; and 

• We are removing restrictions 

regarding the regions of the Czech 

Republic and Sweden from which 

processed poultry products may 

originate in order to be allowed entry 

into the United States in passenger 

luggage. 

However, live birds from the Czech 

Republic and Sweden are still subject to 

inspection at ports of entry and the postimportation quarantines set forth in 9 

CFR part 93, unless granted an 

exemption by the Administrator or 

destined for diagnostic purposes and 

accompanied by a limited permit. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701–7772, 7781– 

7786, and 8301–8317; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 

136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 

371.4. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 4th day of 

November 2010. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28351 Filed 11–9–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Bridger-Teton National Forest 

Resource Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Bridger-Teton Resource 

Advisory Committee will meet in 

Kemmerer, Wyoming. The committee is 

meeting as authorized under the Secure 

Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act (Pub.L 110–343) and 

in compliance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The purpose 

is to approve processes for project 

applications. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

November 29, 2010, and will begin at 5 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Kemmerer Ranger District Office, 


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