# National Poultry Improvement Plan and Auxiliary Provisions
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2016-08-12 · Effective 2016-09-12 · 81 FR 53247
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-19245
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 53247
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 56
- **Publication date:** 2016-08-12
- **Effective date:** 2016-09-12
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2014-0101
## Abstract

We are amending the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP), its auxiliary provisions, and the indemnity regulations for the control of H5 and H7 low pathogenic avian influenza. Specifically, we are clarifying who may participate in the NPIP, amending participation requirements, amending definitions for poultry and breeding stock, amending the approval process for new diagnostic tests, and amending slaughter plant inspection and laboratory inspection and testing requirements. These changes will align the regulations with international standards and make them more transparent to Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service stakeholders and the general public. The changes in this final rule were voted on and approved by the voting delegates at the Plan's 2014 National Plan Conference.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/08/12/2016-19245/national-poultry-improvement-plan-and-auxiliary-provisions)
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