Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products; Standard Requirement for Escherichia Coli Bacterins

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

9 CFR Part 113

[Docket No. 93-039-3]

Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products; Standard

Requirement for Escherichia Coli Bacterins

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of reopening and extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: We are reopening and extending the comment period for the

proposed rule to add a Standard Requirement for Escherichia coli

bacterins. This extension will provide interested persons with

additional time in which to prepare comments on the proposed rule.

DATES: Consideration will be given only to written comments on Docket

No. 93-039-1 that are received on or before September 14, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Please send an original and three copies of your comments to

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Docket No. 93-039-1, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS,

Suite 3C03, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please

state that your comments refer to Docket No. 93-039-1. Comments

received may be inspected at USDA, room 1141, South Building, 14th

Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC, between 8 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. Persons wishing to

inspect comments are requested to call ahead on (202) 690-2817 to

facilitate entry into the comment reading room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. David Espeseth, Deputy Director,

Veterinary Biologics, BBEP, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 148, Riverdale,

MD 20737-1237, (301) 734-8245.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 11, 1994, we published in the

Federal Register (59 FR 51390-51392, Docket No. 93-039-1) a proposed

rule to amend the regulations in 9 CFR part 113 to include a Standard

Requirement for Escherichia coli bacterins. Comments on the proposed

rule were required to be received on or before December 12, 1994.

Based on a request from a national trade association, we published

on May 17, 1995, a notice in the Federal Register (60 FR 26384, Docket

No. 93-039-2) that reopened and extended the comment period until

August 15, 1995.

So that we may consider comments submitted after that date, we are

reopening and extending the public comment period on Docket No. 93-039-

1 an additional 30 days, until September 14, 1995. During this period,

interested persons may submit their comments for our consideration.

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 151-159, 7 CFR 2.17, 2.51, and 371.2(d).

Done in Washington, DC, this 15th day of August 1995.

Terry Medley,

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

[FR Doc. 95-20713 Filed 8-21-95; 8:45 am]

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