Karnal Bunt
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(Thanks to Stephen Poe, USDA APHIS)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC FORUM
ON KARNAL BUNT
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture will be holding several public forums to
receive comments from the public concerning the Karnal
Bunt Program currently being conducted in Arizona,
California, New Mexico, and Texas.
Forums will be held in Washington, DC, Arizona, and
California July and August, 1996.
The first forum has been scheduled in Washington,
DC on Wednesday, July 17, to begin at 9:00 AM in Room
107A of the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building at 14th
Street and Independence Avenue S.W.
These forums will provide the public an additional
opportunity to comment on the content and effect of the
various interim rules ( 7 CFR 301-89 - March 28,
quarantining Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; April 25
quarantining California; July 5, one notice establishing
rates for compensation and a second reducing the
regulated areas) that have been issued since the
detection of Karnal bunt in Arizona in March of this
year.
Comments need not be limited to the regulations, but
may also address any other aspect of the Karnal bunt
program, including control, survey, and regulatory
activities being conducting in the regulated areas,
movement of wheat and other regulated articles from the
regulated areas, the national Karnal bunt survey program,
and issues related to the certification of wheat for
export. Information gathered at these public forums will
be considered by the Department in developing guidelines
and procedures for conducting the Karnal bunt program for
the 1996-1997 wheat growing season in the affected areas.
Persons wishing to comment at the Washington D.C.
forum should register by calling (202) 720-2511 before
6:00 p.m. EDT on July 15. Persons attending the forum
must show a picture identification. In addition to
written or oral presentations made at this public forum,
written comments may also be submitted to: Docket No.
96-016-8, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD,
APHIS, Suite 3C03, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale,
MD 20737-1238.
Don Husnik
Deputy Administrator
USDA, APHIS, PPQ
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