# Specifically Approved States Authorized to Receive Mares and Stallions Imported from Regions Where CEM Exists
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Direct final rule. · Published 1998-02-06 · Effective 1998-04-07 · 63 FR 6063
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-3045
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 6063
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 93
- **Publication date:** 1998-02-06
- **Effective date:** 1998-04-07
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 97-104-1
## Abstract

We are amending the animal importation regulations by adding Oklahoma to the lists of States approved to receive certain mares and stallions imported into the United States from regions affected with contagious equine metritis (CEM). We are taking this action because Oklahoma has entered into an agreement with the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to enforce its State laws and regulations to control CEM and to require inspection, treatment, and testing of horses, as required by Federal regulations, to further ensure the horses' freedom from CEM. This action relieves unnecessary restrictions on the importation of mares and stallions from regions where CEM exists.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/02/06/98-3045/specifically-approved-states-authorized-to-receive-mares-and-stallions-imported-from-regions-where)
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