Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 21 - Agriculture and Land Stewardship Department
Chapter 64 - Infectious and Contagious Diseases
Rule 21-64.160 - Approved Premises
Universal Citation: IA Admin Code 21-64.160
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 6, September 18, 2024
The purpose of an approved premises is to maintain feeder swine and feeder pigs under quarantine with movement either direct to slaughter or to another approved premises. Effective June 1, 2000, all swine moved or relocated from an infected herd on an approved herd cleanup plan may only move by restricted movement to an approved premises for further feeding or to slaughter (slaughtering plant or fixed concentration point).
(1) The following are requirements establishing, renewing, or revoking an approved premises permit:
a. A permit application, as part of the herd
cleanup plan, must indicate the name of the premises operator and address of
the premises.
b. To be valid, an
approved premises must be detailed as part of a herd cleanup plan and approved
by a department or inspection service official certifying that the facility
meets the following guidelines:
(1) Must be a
dry lot facility located in an area of confirmed cases of
pseudorabies.
(2) Shall not be in
the vicinity of a breeding herd. Effective June 1, 2000, an approved premises
shall not be located in a county designated as in Stage III of the national
pseudorabies eradication program, nor shall it be located in a county which has
achieved 0 percent prevalence of pseudorabies infection among all herds in the
county as of March 1, 2000, or later Effective August 1, 2000, an approved
premises shall not be located within one and one-half miles of a noninfected
herd or three miles of a qualified negative herd.
(3) Shall be built such that it can be
thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
(4) The lay of the land or the facilities
shall not be conducive to animal waste draining onto adjacent
property.
(5) Only feeder swine and
cull swine may be moved onto this premises. Boars and sows are to be maintained
separate and apart.
(6) Swine on
the premises must be maintained in isolation from other livestock.
c. The permittee must provide to
the department or inspection service, during normal business hours, access to
the approved premises and to all required records. Records of swine transfers
must be kept for at least one year. The records shall include information about
purchases and sales, names of buyers and sellers, the dates of transactions,
and the number of swine involved with each transaction.
d. Swine must be vaccinated for pseudorabies
according to the herd cleanup plan. Vaccination records must be available for
inspection during normal business hours.
e. Dead swine must be disposed of in
accordance with Iowa Code chapter 167. The dead swine must be held so as to
prevent animals, including wild animals and livestock, from reaching the dead
swine.
f. Swine must be moved
direct to slaughter or to another approved premises by restricted movement and
as detailed in the herd cleanup plan.
g. An approved premises permit may be revoked
by following quarantine release methods as detailed in Iowa Code section
166D.9, or
failure to Cornply with departmental operation rules, or if swine have been
removed from the premises for a period of 12 or more months.
h. Renewal of an approved premises will not
be permitted when:
(1) The approved premises
is not Cornpliant with the requirements of this rule.
(2) Federal law prohibits approved
premises.
(3) The approved premises
no longer is part of an approved herd cleanup plan, or the county where the
approved premises is located no longer allows approved premises or the site of
the approved premises no longer Cornplies with requirements.
i. Revocation of an approved
premises will result in the issuance of a quarantine by the department
effective until quarantine release methods have been followed as detailed in
Iowa Code section I66D.9, or the approved premises has been depopulated by
restricted movement to slaughter or to another approved premises as detailed in
the herd cleanup plan.
64.160(2) An approved premises will be considered permitted as long as the approved premises is Cornpliant with all regulations and is part of an approved herd cleanup plan.
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