Pseudorabies in Swine, Payment of Indemnity; Technical Amendment

In an interim rule published in the Federal Register on January 15, 1999, and effective as of January 12, 1999, we established animal health regulations to provide for the payment of indemnity by the United States Department of Agriculture for the voluntary depopulation of herds of swine known to be infected with pseudorabies. Although we provided in our interim rule that a premises that has been depopulated of swine may not be restocked for at least 30 days following cleaning and disinfection, it was our intent to also allow an official pseudorabies epidemiologist to allow restocking in less than 30 days or to require a waiting period longer than 30 days as warranted or necessary. In this amendment we are clarifying that intent.