 
  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/941/Add.1 
20 August 2004 
 (04-3494) 
Committee on Sanitary an f Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
 
 
 The following communication, received on 17 A ugust 2004, is being circulated at the request 
of the Delegation of the United States . 
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Tuberculosis in Cattle;  Import Require ments;  Interim rule;  Withdrawal  
 
 This document withdraws the interim rule am ending the animal importation regulations to 
require that steers and spayed heifers with an y evidence of horn growth that are entering the 
United States meet the same tuberculosis testing requirements as sexually intact animals entering the 
United States.  That interim rule was published in the Federal Register on 20 July 2004, and was 
scheduled to become effective on 19 August 2004.  The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
has decided to publish a proposed rule in place of  the interim rule.  Th e proposed rule will be 
published in the Federal Register in the near future. 
 
 
 The rule was published in the Federal Register on August 12, 2004 (Volume 69, 
Number 155), page 49783.  It can be viewed at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor/all.html  
or http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.c gi?dbname=2004_registe r&docid=fr12au04-1  
  This document can be obtained from the United States SPS Enquiry Poin t/Notification Point, 
[USDA/FAS/ FSTD, ATTN:  Julie Morin, South Agriculture Building, Stop 1027, 1400 Independence 
Ave. S.W., Washington DC 20250, Phone:  202 720-4051, Fax:  202 690 0677, 
email:  fstd@fas.usda.gov].   
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