Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service April 27, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

We are advising the public that we have prepared a proposed decision/finding of no significant impact relative to oral rabies vaccination programs in several States. Since the publication of our original environmental assessment and decision/finding of no significant impact in 2001, we have prepared, and made available to the public for comment, several supplemental environmental assessments and decisions/findings of no significant impact in order to reflect changes in the program. The decision/finding of no significant impact made available by this notice clarifies the term ``contingency actions,'' which was used in a supplemental environmental assessment we prepared in 2004, and analyzes a type of contingency action called trap- vaccinate-release that was not analyzed as part of the proposed action in the 2004 supplemental environmental assessment. The new decision/ finding of no significant impact is intended to facilitate planning and interagency coordination in the event of rabies outbreaks and to clearly communicate to the public the actions involved in the oral rabies vaccination program.