Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved an emergency information collection request from USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for “HPAI: Testing, Surveillance, and Reporting of HPAI in Livestock; Dairy Herd Certification”. OIRA notes that APHIS has already been collecting this information without an approved ICR, that may explain the delay (request submitted June 28th, 2024) in approving the emergency ICR.
The supporting
document for this ICR provides a good summary of the problems associated
with the recent discovery of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in dairy
herds and the USDA’s response activities.
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