Ports Designated for Importation of Birds

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

9 CFR Part 92

[Docket No. 94-014-2]

Ports Designated for Importation of Birds

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Direct final rule; confirmation of effective date.

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SUMMARY: This document confirms the effective date of a direct final

rule that amends the animal importation regulations by adding the

Greater Cincinnati International Airport in Covington, KY, as a limited

port of entry for certain birds. The direct final rule also makes

several nonsubstantive changes to correct errors in the regulations

concerning importation of birds.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The direct final rule published on July 15, 1994 (59 FR

36024-36026, Docket No. 94-014-1), is effective September 13, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Tracye Butler, Staff Veterinarian, Import-Export Animals Staff,

National Center for Import-Export, Veterinary Services, APHIS, USDA,

room 767, Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782,

(301) 436-5097.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

In a direct final rule published in the Federal Register on July

15, 1994 (59 FR 36024-36026, Docket No. 94-014-1), we notified the

public of our intent to amend the animal importation regulations by

adding the Greater Cincinnati International Airport in Covington, KY,

as a limited port of entry for certain birds. We also notified the

public that we intended to make several nonsubstantive changes to

correct errors in the regulations concerning importation of birds.

We solicited comments concerning the direct final rule for a 30-day

period ending August 15, 1994. We stated that the effective date of the

proposed amendment would be 60 days after publication of the direct

final rule in the Federal Register, unless we received written adverse

comments or written notice of intent to submit adverse comments by the

close of the comment period.

We received neither written adverse comments nor written notice of

intent to submit adverse comments by that date. Therefore, the direct

final rule will become effective on September 13, 1994, as scheduled.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622; 19 U.S.C. 1306; 21 U.S.C. 102-105,

111, 114a, 134a, 134b, 134c, 134d, 134f, 135, 136, and 136a; 31

U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.17, 2.51, and 371.2(d).

Done in Washington, DC, this 25th day of August 1994.

Terry L. Medley,

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

[FR Doc. 94-21505 Filed 8-30-94; 8:45 am]

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