2022-19260: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Indemnity Regulations

Summary

We are soliciting public comment on a new approach to indemnity value determination and a new framework for the indemnity regulations. These parts address payment of indemnity for the destruction and disposition of animals the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) classifies as infected with, suspect of, or exposed to diseases of concern, to eradicate and control foreign animal diseases, emerging diseases, and program diseases. The current regulations for valuing animals for the purpose of indemnification vary from species to species and, in some cases, disease to disease within a species. The new approach would harmonize how APHIS determines animal values and deals with costs associated with transportation, cleaning, disposal, and other points at which variations occur in how APHIS manages indemnity and compensation.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 6 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

• 9 CFR 50 Animals Destroyed Because of Tuberculosis
• 9 CFR 51 Animals Destroyed Because of Brucellosis
• 9 CFR 52 Swine Destroyed Because of Pseudorabies
• 9 CFR 54 Control of Scrapie
• 9 CFR 55 Control of Chronic Wasting Disease
• 9 CFR 56 Control of H5/H7 Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza