Notice: Concurrence with World Organization for Animal Health Risk Designations for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Docket # (APHIS-2015-0055)

APHIS is advising the public of our decision to concur with the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE) bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk designations for 14 regions. The OIE recognizes these regions as being of negligible risk for BSE. We are taking this action based on our review of information supporting the OIE's risk designations for these regions.

This notice is available in English at: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=APHIS-2015-0055-0004.

Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 154/Wednesday, 10 August 2016/pgs. 52811-52812

In accordance with that process, we published a notice in the Federal Register on 4 December 2015 (80 FR 75849, Docket No. APHIS-2015-0055), in which we announced our intent to concur with the OIE risk designations for 16 regions. The OIE recognizes these regions as being of negligible risk for BSE. We solicited comments on the notice for 60 days ending on 2 February 2016. We received two comments by that date, from a private citizen and a representative of a foreign government.