ture for brucellosis may be moved interstate in accordance with the regulations in Subpart B of this part. § 78.12 Movement of cattle not known to be affected with brucellosis.1 (a) Movement of steers, spayed heifers, and calves under 8 months of age. Steers and spayed heifers and calves under 8 months of age, not known to be affected with brucellosis, may be moved interstate without restriction under this subpart. (b) Movement of cattle for immediate slaughter. Cattle, not known to be affected with brucellosis, may be moved interstate under this subpart for immediate slaughter direct to a slaughtering establishment operating under the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1260; 21 U. S. C. 71 et seq.), or a slaughtering establishment specifically approved for the purpose in accordance with § 78.16(b) or to a public stockyard or specifically approved stockyard for sale to such a slaughtering establishment, if accompanied by a waybill or similar document, or a certificate signed by the owner or shipper of the cattle, stating: (1) The destination of the animals; (2) the purpose for which they are to be moved; (3) the number of animals covered by the waybill or similar document or certificate; (4) the point from which the animals are moved interstate; and (5) the name and address of the owner or shipper. (c) Movement of cattle to public stockyards or specifically approved stockyards. Cattle, from herds not known to be affected with brucellosis, may be moved interstate direct to a public stockyard or specifically approved stockyard without compliance with the other provisions of this section except the provisions of paragraph (f) of this section, if accompanied by a waybill or similar document, or a certificate signed by the owner or shipper of the cattle, stating: (1) The destination of the animals; (2) the purpose for which they are to be moved; (3) the number of animals covered by the waybill or similar document or certificate; (4) the point from which the animals are moved interstate; and (5) the name and address of the owner or shipper: Provided, however, That the 1In each instance, the regulations of the State of destination should be consulted before interstate shipments are made. movement of said cattle from such stockyard to another destination must comply with the provisions of this part the same as if the cattle had been originally consigned direct from the point of origin to such destination. (d) Movement of cattle into areas not certified as modified certified brucellosis: areas. Cattle of the following classes, from herds not known to be affected with brucellosis, may be moved interstate under this subpart, except into the modified certified brucellosis areas specified in § 78.13, if accompanied by a certificate issued by a Federal or State inspector or an accredited veterinarian showing the name and address of the consignor and consignee, the identification tag number, tattoo, or registration number of each animal or other proper identification, and showing the specific class in which the cattle fall: (1) Cattle originating in certified brucellosis-free herds; (2) Cattle originating in the modified certified brucellosis areas specified in § 78.13; (3) Cattle which are official vaccinates under 30 months of age at the time of interstate movement; (4) [Reserved] (5) Cattle which have been subjected to a test, recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for brucellosis under the supervision of a Federal or State veterinary official, within 30 days prior to the date of movement interstate and found negative; and (6) Bulls and female cattle of the beef type moved interstate, only for feeding or grazing purposes or for sale for such purposes, to a State which has laws, rules, or regulations, which provide for the segregation or quarantine of such cattle brought into the State, and under a permit from the appropriate livestock sanitary official of such State of destination. (e) Movement of cattle into modified certified brucellosis areas. Cattle of the following classes, from herds not known to be affected with brucellosis, may be moved interstate under this subpart into the modified certified brucellosis areas specified in § 78.13, if the provisions of paragraph (f) of this section are complied with and such cattle are accompanied by a certificate issued by a Federal or State inspector or an accredited veterinarian showing the name and address of the consignor and consignee, (5) Cattle which have been subjected to a blood agglutination test, recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for brucellosis, under the supervision of a Federal or State veterinary official within 30 days prior to the date of movement interstate and found negative, and which are moved interstate under a permit from the appropriate livestock sanitary official of the State of destination to be maintained in quarantine in such State separate from other cattle until they are negative to another such test administered not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days after the date of the interstate movement or until their death by slaughter or from natural causes; (6) Cattle from herds, under FederalState supervision for the control of brucellosis, in which all animals, required to be tested, over eight months of age, except official vaccinates under thirty months of age, have been subjected to a blood agglutination test, recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for brucellosis, under the supervision of a Federal or State veterinary official, within 90 days prior to the date of movement interstate and found negative; the individual animals to be moved interstate having been subjected to another such test at least 30 days from the date of the previous herd test and within 30 days prior to the date of movement interstate and found negative; and (7) Bulls and female cattle of the beef type moved interstate, only for feeding or grazing purposes or for sale for such purposes, to a State which has laws, rules, or regulations, which provide for the segregation or quarantine of such cattle brought into the State, and under a permit from the appropriate livestock sanitary official of such State of destination. (f) Handling of cattle in transit to modified certified brucellosis areas. Cattle, not known to be affected with brucellosis, except those moved under paragraphs (a), (b), or (e) (7) of this section, shall be moved interstate into any modified certified brucellosis area only in clean vehicles and, if unloaded in the course of such movement, shall be handled only in clean pens at public stockyards or specifically approved stockyards, or in clean pens at feed, water, and rest stations. (g) Other movements. The Director of Division may provide for the movement, not otherwise provided for in this section, of cattle, not known to have reacted to a test for brucellosis, under such conditions as he may prescribe to prevent the spread of brucellosis. The Director of Division will promptly notify the appropriate livestock sanitary officials of the States involved of any such action. [28 F.R. 5957, June 13, 1963, as amended at 33 F.R. 5678, Apr. 12, 1968] Subpart D-Designation of Modified Certified Brucellosis Areas, Public § 78.13 Modified certified brucellosis areas. The following States, or specified portions thereof, are hereby designated as modified certified brucellosis areas: Alabama. The entire State; Alaska. The entire State except Chirikof Islands; Arizona. The entire State; Florida. Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Calhoun, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, Dade, Dixie, Duval, Escambia, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hamilton, Hendry, Hernando, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Lee, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Manatee, Monroe, Nassau, Okaloosa, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Pinellas, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Sumter, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, Volusia, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington Counties; Georgia. The entire State; Hawaii. Honolulu, Kauai, and Maui Coun ties; Idaho. The entire State; Illinois. The entire State; Indiana. The entire State; Iowa. The entire State; Maine. The entire State; Mississippi. Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay, Coahoma, Copiah, Covington, DeSoto, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene, Grenada, Hancock, Harrison, Hinds, Humphreys, Issaquena, Itawamba, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lafayette, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Leake, Lee, Leflore, Lincoln, Lowndes, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith, Stone, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Walthall, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wilkinson, Winston, and Yalobusha Counties; Missouri. The entire State; Nebraska. Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Banner, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Chase, Cheyenne, Clay, Colfax, Cuming, Custer, Dakota, Dawson, Deuel, Dixon, Dodge, Douglas, Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gage, Gosper, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Harian, Hayes, Hitchcock, Howard, Jefferson, Johnson, Kearney, Keith, Kimball, Knox, Lancaster, Madison, Merrick, Nance, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe, Pawnee, Perkins, Phelps, Pierce, Platte, Polk, Red Willow, Richardson, Saline, Sarpy, Saunders, Seward, Sherman, Sioux, Stanton, Thayer, Thurston, Valley, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wheeler, and York Counties; Nevada. The entire State; New Hampshire. The entire State; New York. The entire State; Oklahoma. Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cimarron, Coal, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grant, Greer, Harmon, Harper, Haskell, Hughes, Jackson, Johnston, Kay, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Latimer, Le Flore, Lincoln, Logan, McClain, McCurtain, McIntosh, Major, Marshall, Mayes, Murray, Muskogee, Noble, No wata, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage,. Pennsylvania. The entire State; South Dakota. Beadle, Bennett, Brookings, Brown, Buffalo, Butte, Campbell, Clark, Clay, Codington, Corson, Custer, Day, Deuel, Edmonds, Fall River, Faulk, Grant, Gregory, Haakon, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Harding, Jackson, Jerauld, Jones, Kingsbury, Lake, Lawrence, Lincoln, McCook, McPherson, Marshall, Meade, Mellette, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Pennington, Perkins, Potter, Roberts, Sanborn, Shannon, Spink, Todd, Tripp, Turner, Union, Walworth, Washabaugh, Yankton, and Ziebach Counties; and Crow Creek Indian Reservation; Tennessee. The entire State; Texas. Andrews, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Bailey, Bandera, Baylor, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Callahan, Cameron, Camp, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Dimmit, Donley, Duval, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, El Paso, Erath, Falls, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Freestone, Gaines, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Gray, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hays, Hamphill, Hildalgo, Hockley, Hood, Howard, Hudspeth, Hutchinson, Irion, Jack, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Jones, Karnes, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Knox, Lamb, Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Marion, Martin, Mason, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Mills, Mitchell, Moore, Morris, Motley, Navarro, Newton, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto, Parker, Parmer, Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Randall, Reagan, Real, Reeves, Roberts, Runnels, Sabine, San Augustine, San Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Shelby, Sherman, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorten, Tom Green, Travis, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Ward, Washington, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Wise, Yoakum, Young, Zapata, and Zavala Counties; Utah. The entire State; Wyoming. The entire State; Puerto Rico. The entire area; and Virgin Islands of the United States. The entire area. [33 F.R. 16381, Nov. 8, 1968] WISCONSIN Milwaukee Stockyards Co., Milwaukee. (b) Notices containing lists of stockyards specifically approved for the purposes of § 78.5 concerning brucellosis reactors and of paragraphs (b) and (c) of § 78.12 concerning cattle not known to be affected with brucellosis are published in the FEDERAL REGISTER. Information with respect to these stockyards may also be obtained from this Division and from the Federal Inspectors and State Inspectors. [28 F.R. 5959, June 13, 1963, as amended at 32 F.R. 18086, Dec. 19, 1967; 33 F.R. 17849, Nov. 30, 1968] § 78.15 Slaughtering establishments. (a) Information with respect to the slaughtering establishments operating under the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act of March 4, 1907, may be obtained from the Meat Inspection Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C., and from the Federal Inspectors and State Inspectors. (b) Notices containing lists of slaughtering establishments specifically approved for the purposes of § 78.5; paragraph (b) of § 78.12; and §§ 78.18 and 78.19 are published in the FEDERAL REGISTER. Information with respect to these slaughtering establishments may also be obtained from the Division and from the Federal Inspectors and State Inspectors. [28 F.R. 5960, June 13, 1963, as amended at 30 F.R. 16257, Dec. 30, 1965] § 78.16 Director of Division may designate areas and approve stockyards and slaughtering establishments. (a) The Director of Division is hereby authorized to amend § 78.15 to designate additional States, or political subdivisions or portions thereof, as modified certified brucellosis areas when he determines that the areas come within the definition in § 78.1(i), and to delete any such area from the list of modified certified brucellosis areas when he determines that the area no longer comes within such definition. (b) The Director of Division is hereby authorized to amend § 78.14 to add the names of additional stockyards at which Federal inspection is maintained for the inspection of livestock for communicable diseases and to delete the name of any stockyard at which such Federal inspection is no longer maintained. He is fur ther authorized to specifically approve stockyards for the purposes of the regulations in this part and to promulgate notices listing such stockyards in accordance with § 78.14(b) when he determines that the inspection and handling of livestock at such stockyards are adequate to effectuate the purposes of the regulations and the Division and the State in which such stockyards are located have entered into a memorandum of understanding setting forth certain standards for such stockyards. The Director may withdraw approval and remove any stockyard from the said list when he finds that the inspection or handling of livestock at such stockyard is no longer adequate to effectuate the purposes of such regulations, or when he determines that there is not full compliance with all provisions of the standards involved, or when such memorandum of understanding between the Division and the State within which such stockyard is located has been terminated. The Director of Division is further authorized to specifically approve slaughtering establishments for the purposes of the regulations in this part and to promulgate notices listing such slaughtering establishments in accordance with § 78.15(b) when he determines that the inspection and handling of livestock or carcasses or products thereof at such slaughtering establishments are adequate to effectuate the purposes of the regulations. The Director may remove any slaughtering establishment from the said list when he finds that the inspection or handling of livestock or carcasses or products thereof at such slaughtering establishment is no longer adequate to effectuate the purposes of such regulations. [28 F.R. 5960, June 13, 1963, as amended at 28 FR. 11450, Oct. 25, 1963] Subpart E-Restrictions on Movement of Bison Because of Brucellosis SOURCE: The provisions of this Subpart E appear at 29 F.R. 1559, Jan. 30, 1964; 29 F.R. 1719, Feb. 5, 1964. |