APHIS Proposes to Post Disease Region Lists on Web, Remove from Regs
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a proposed rule to remove lists of regions classified with respect to certain animal diseases and pests from its animal and animal product import regulations, and to remove lists of States…
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approved to receive horses imported from foreign regions where it considers contagious equine metritis to exist, and instead post these lists to its Web site. The regulations would provide the Web address and would explain APHIS' criteria and process for adding a region to, or removing a region from, each of the lists. The technical criteria APHIS uses to evaluate whether a region should be added to or removed from a list, or for approving a State, would not change. Comments are due by August 1, 2011. APHIS' press release on this proposed rule is available here.