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Vol. 78, No. 233 

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT 

FOUNDATION 

Public Quarterly Meeting of the Board 

of Directors 

AGENCY: United States African 

Development Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. African 

Development Foundation (USDAF) will 

hold its quarterly meeting of the Board 

of Directors to discuss the agency’s 

programs and administration. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 2 p.m. 

and will last until 3:30 p.m. of the same 

day. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held 

via teleconference. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rabayah Akhter, 202–233–8811. 

Authority: Public Law 96–533 (22 U.S.C. 

290h). 

Dated: November 26, 2013. 

Doris Mason Martin, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2013–28986 Filed 12–3–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6117–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0064] 

Concurrence With OIE Risk 

Designations for Bovine Spongiform 

Encephalopathy 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our preliminary concurrence with the 

World Organization for Animal Health’s 

(OIE) bovine spongiform 

encephalopathy (BSE) risk designations 

for 14 regions. The OIE recognizes these 

regions as being of either negligible risk 

for BSE or of controlled risk for BSE. We 

are taking this action based on our 

review of information supporting the 

OIE’s risk designations for these regions. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before February 3, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/

#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0064- 

0001. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2013–0064, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at http://

www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0064 or 

in our reading room, which is located in 

Room 1141 of the USDA South 

Building, 14th Street and Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC. Normal 

reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202) 799–7039 

before coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Silvia Kreindel, Senior Staff 

Veterinarian, Regionalization Evaluation 

Services, National Center for Import and 

Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, 

Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; 

(301) 851–3300. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

As amended by a final rule published 

in today’s Federal Register (see ‘‘Bovine 

Spongiform Encephalopathy; 

Importation of Bovines and Bovine 

Products,’’ Docket No. APHIS–2008– 

0010), the regulations in 9 CFR part 92 

subpart B, ‘‘Importation of Animals and 

Animal Products; Procedures for 

Requesting BSE Risk Status 

Classification With Regard To Bovines’’ 

(referred to below as the regulations), set 

forth the process by which the Animal 

and Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS) classifies regions for bovine 

spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk. 

Section 92.5 of the regulations provides 

that all countries of the world are 

considered by APHIS to be in one of 

three BSE risk categories: Negligible 

risk, controlled risk, or undetermined 

risk. These risk categories are defined in 

§ 92.1. Any region that is not classified 

by APHIS as presenting either negligible 

risk or controlled risk for BSE is 

considered to present an undetermined 

risk. The list of those regions classified 

by APHIS as having either negligible 

risk or controlled risk can be accessed 

on the APHIS Web site at http://

www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/

animals/animal_disease_status.shtml. 

The list can also be obtained by writing 

to APHIS at National Import Export 

Services, 4700 River Road Unit 38, 

Riverdale, MD 20737. 

Under the regulations, APHIS may 

classify a region for BSE in one of two 

ways. One way is for countries that have 

not received a risk classification from 

the World Organization for Animal 

Health (OIE) to request classification by 

APHIS. The other way is for APHIS to 

concur with the classification given to a 

country by the OIE. 

If the OIE has classified a country as 

either BSE negligible risk or BSE 

controlled risk, APHIS will seek 

information to support concurrence 

with the OIE classification. This 

information may be publicly available 

information, or APHIS may request that 

countries supply the same information 

given to the OIE. APHIS will announce 

in the Federal Register, subject to 

public comment, its intent to concur 

with an OIE classification. 

In accordance with this process, we 

are giving notice in this document that 

APHIS intends to concur with the OIE 

risk classifications of the following 

countries: 

• Regions of negligible risk for BSE: 

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, 

Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, 

Singapore, Slovenia. 

• Regions of controlled risk for BSE: 

Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Nicaragua, 

Taiwan. 

The OIE recommendations regarding 

each of the above countries can be 

viewed at http://www.oie.int/animalhealth-in-the-world/official-diseasestatus/bse/list-of-bse-risk-status/. 

The conclusions of the OIE scientific 

commission for these countries can be 

viewed at: 

Austria: http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/ 

Home/eng/Internationa_Standard_

Setting/docs/pdf/SCAD/A_SCAD_

Feb2012.pdf (page 46). 


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