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health professionals, scientific

professionals, and other individuals that

have requested to be included. Through

these various channels, FSIS is able to

provide information to a much broader,

more diverse audience. For more

information and to be added to the

constituent fax list, fax your request to

the Congressional and Public Affairs

Office, at (202) 720–5704.

Done at Washington, DC on: October 13,

2000.

Thomas J. Billy,

Administrator.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service

[Docket No. 00–040N]

National Advisory Committee on Meat

and Poultry Inspection

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection

Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The National Advisory

Committee on Meat and Poultry

Inspection (NACMPI) will hold an open

meeting on October 31–November 1,

2000, to review and discuss three issues:

(1) Residue Control in a HACCP

Environment, (2) Sharing Recall

Information with State and Other

Federal Authorities, and (3) HACCP—

Phase II. The three subcommittees of the

full Committee will also meet on

October 31, 2000, to continue working

on issues discussed during the full

Committee session. All interested

parties are welcome to attend the

meeting and to submit written

comments and suggestions concerning

issues the Committee will review and

discuss.

DATES: The full Committee will hold an

open meeting on Tuesday October 31,

and Wednesday, November 1, 2000,

from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Subcommittees will hold open meetings on

Tuesday, October 31, 2000, from 7 p.m.

to 9 p.m.

ADDRESSES: All Committee meetings

will take place at Loews L’Enfant Plaza

Hotel, 480 L’Enfant Plaza, SW.,

Washington, DC 20024; telephone (202)

484–1000. The full committee will meet

in Ballroom B & C on October 31 and

Ballroom C on November 1. The

Subcommittees will meet in the

Montcalm, Marquette, and Lafayette

Rooms. A meeting agenda is available

on the FSIS Web Site at http://

www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/nacmpi

which is a sub-web page of the FSIS

Homepage at http://www.fsis.usda.gov.

Submit one original and two copies of

written comments to the FSIS Docket

Room, Docket #00–040N, U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Food Safety

and Inspection Service, Room 102

Cotton Annex, 300 12th Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20250–3700.

Comments may also be sent by facsimile

(202) 205–0381. The comments and the

official transcript of the meeting, when

they become available, will be kept in

the FSIS Docket Room at the address

provided above. All comments received

in response to this notice will be

considered part of the public record and

will be available for viewing in the FSIS

Docket Room between 8:30 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Cheryl Green at (202) 720–6290, FAX

(202) 690–1030, or E-mail

cheryl.green@usda.gov. Persons

requiring a sign language interpreter or

other special accommodations should

notify Ms. Green by October 24, 2000,

at the above numbers or by e-mail.

Information is also available on FSIS

Web Site at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/

OPPDE/nacmpi.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On March 22, 1999, the Secretary of

Agriculture renewed the charter for the

NACMPI. The Committee provides

advice and recommendations to the

Secretary of Agriculture pertaining to

Federal and State meat and poultry

inspection programs pursuant to

sections 7(c), 24, 205, 301(a)(3), and

301(c) of the Federal Meat Inspection

Act and sections 5(a)(3), 5(c), 8(b), and

11(e) of the Poultry Products Inspection

Act. The FSIS Administrator is the

chairperson of the Committee.

Membership of the Committee is drawn

from representatives of consumer

groups; producers, processors, and

marketers from the meat and poultry

industry; and State government officials.

The current members of the NACMPI

are: Magdi Abadir, Cuisine Solutions;

Terry Burkhardt, Wisconsin Bureau of

Meat Safety and Inspection; Dr. James

Denton, University of Arkansas;

Caroline Smith-DeWaal, Center for

Science in the Public Interest; Nancy

Donley, Safe Tables Our Priority; Carol

Tucker Foreman, Food Policy Institute,

Consumer Federation of America; Dr.

Cheryl Hall, Zacky Farms, Inc.; Kathleen

Hanigan, Farmland Foods; Dr. Lee C.

Jan, Texas Department of Health; Alice

Johnson, National Turkey Federation;

Dr. Collette Schultz Kaster, Premium

Standard Farms; Dr. Daniel E.

LaFontaine, South Carolina MeatPoultry Inspection Department; Michael

Mamminga, Iowa Department of

Agriculture; Dr. Dale Morse, New York

Office of Public Health; Rosemary

Mucklow, National Meat Association;

Donna Richardson, Howard University

Cancer Center; and Gary Weber,

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

The Committee has three

subcommittees that deliberate on

specific issues and make

recommendations to the whole

Committee. The Committee makes

recommendations to the Secretary of

Agriculture.

Members of the public will be

required to register before entering the

meeting.

Additional Public Notification

Public awareness of all segments of

rulemaking and policy development is

important. Consequently, in an effort to

better ensure that minorities, women,

and persons with disabilities are aware

of this notice, FSIS will announce it and

provide copies of this Federal Register

publication in the FSIS Constituent

Update. FSIS provides a weekly FSIS

Constituent Update, which is

communicated via fax to over 300

organizations and individuals. In

addition, the update is available on-line

through the FSIS web page located at

http://www.fsis.usda.gov. The update is

used to provide information regarding

FSIS policies, procedures, regulations,

Federal Register notices, FSIS public

meetings, recalls, and any other types of

information that could affect or would

be of interest to our constituents/

stakeholders. The constituent fax list

consists of industry, trade, farm, and

consumer interest groups, allied health

professionals and scientific

professionals, and other individuals that

have requested to be included. Through

these various channels, FSIS is able to

provide information to a much broader,

more diverse audience. For more

information and to be added to the

constituent fax list, fax your request to

the FSIS Congressional and Public

Affairs Office, at (202) 720–5704.

Done at Washington, DC on: October 13,

2000.

Thomas J. Billy,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 00–27105 Filed 10–20–00; 8:45 am]

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