Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 21 - Agriculture and Land Stewardship Department › Chapter 64 - Infectious and Contagious Diseases › Rule 21-64.160 - Approved Premises

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The purpose of an approved premises is to maintain feeder swine
				and feeder pigs under quarantine with movement either direct to slaughter or to
				another approved premises. Effective June 1, 2000, all swine moved or relocated
				from an infected herd on an approved herd cleanup plan may only move by
				restricted movement to an approved premises for further feeding or to slaughter
				(slaughtering plant or fixed concentration point).
(1) The following are requirements
			 establishing, renewing, or revoking an approved premises permit:
a. A permit application, as part of the herd
			 cleanup plan, must indicate the name of the premises operator and address of
			 the premises.
b. To be valid, an
			 approved premises must be detailed as part of a herd cleanup plan and approved
			 by a department or inspection service official certifying that the facility
			 meets the following guidelines:
(1) Must be a
			 dry lot facility located in an area of confirmed cases of
			 pseudorabies.
(2) Shall not be in
			 the vicinity of a breeding herd. Effective June 1, 2000, an approved premises
			 shall not be located in a county designated as in Stage III of the national
			 pseudorabies eradication program, nor shall it be located in a county which has
			 achieved 0 percent prevalence of pseudorabies infection among all herds in the
			 county as of March 1, 2000, or later Effective August 1, 2000, an approved
			 premises shall not be located within one and one-half miles of a noninfected
			 herd or three miles of a qualified negative herd.
(3) Shall be built such that it can be
			 thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
(4) The lay of the land or the facilities
			 shall not be conducive to animal waste draining onto adjacent
			 property.
(5) Only feeder swine and
			 cull swine may be moved onto this premises. Boars and sows are to be maintained
			 separate and apart.
(6) Swine on
			 the premises must be maintained in isolation from other livestock.
c. The permittee must provide to
			 the department or inspection service, during normal business hours, access to
			 the approved premises and to all required records. Records of swine transfers
			 must be kept for at least one year. The records shall include information about
			 purchases and sales, names of buyers and sellers, the dates of transactions,
			 and the number of swine involved with each transaction.
d. Swine must be vaccinated for pseudorabies
			 according to the herd cleanup plan. Vaccination records must be available for
			 inspection during normal business hours.
e. Dead swine must be disposed of in
			 accordance with Iowa Code chapter 167. The dead swine must be held so as to
			 prevent animals, including wild animals and livestock, from reaching the dead
			 swine.
f. Swine must be moved
			 direct to slaughter or to another approved premises by restricted movement and
			 as detailed in the herd cleanup plan.
g. An approved premises permit may be revoked
			 by following quarantine release methods as detailed in Iowa Code section
			 166D.9, or
			 failure to Cornply with departmental operation rules, or if swine have been
			 removed from the premises for a period of 12 or more months.
h. Renewal of an approved premises will not
			 be permitted when:
(1) The approved premises
			 is not Cornpliant with the requirements of this rule.
(2) Federal law prohibits approved
			 premises.
(3) The approved premises
			 no longer is part of an approved herd cleanup plan, or the county where the
			 approved premises is located no longer allows approved premises or the site of
			 the approved premises no longer Cornplies with requirements.
i. Revocation of an approved
			 premises will result in the issuance of a quarantine by the department
			 effective until quarantine release methods have been followed as detailed in
			 Iowa Code section I66D.9, or the approved premises has been depopulated by
			 restricted movement to slaughter or to another approved premises as detailed in
			 the herd cleanup plan.