Notice 18 Apr 2025 regulatory compliance, environmental impact, usda, poultry, avian influenza, biosecurity

🦆Final Programmatic EIS for HPAI Outbreak Response by USDA

We are advising the public that a final programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) has been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to our response activities to highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in commercial and backyard poultry operations located throughout the United States. The final EIS analyses and compares the potential environmental effects of using three action alternatives during an HPAI outbreak. We are making this final programmatic EIS available to the public for review.

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Proposed Rule 28 Feb 2025 agriculture, regulations, usda, livestock, biosecurity, swine health

🐖US Swine Health Improvement Plan Comment Period Reopened

We are reopening the comment period for our proposed rule that would create the regulations governing the US Swine Health Improvement Plan, a voluntary livestock improvement program aimed at improving biosecurity, traceability, and disease surveillance for swine health. This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit comments.

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