WSR 16-23-109 PERMANENT RULES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE [Filed November 18, 2016, 8:23 a.m., effective December 19, 2016] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The department is amending chapter 16-71 WAC to reduce the number of days equine with vesicular stomatitis are held in quarantine after the last documented observation of new lesions and adding the program's e-mail address to the contacts.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 16-71-015 and 16-71-110.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 16.36.040.
Other Authority: Chapter 34.05 RCW.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 16-19-095 on September 21, 2016.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: November 18, 2016.
Derek I. Sandison
Director
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 10-13-056, filed 6/10/10, effective 7/11/10)
WAC 16-71-015 Forms used in this chapter.
Forms used in this chapter may be obtained from the department at:
Animal Services Division
Washington State Department of Agriculture
1111 Washington St. S.E.
Olympia, WA 98504-2560
E-mail: ahealth@agr.wa.gov
Phone: 360-902-1878.
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 10-13-056, filed 6/10/10, effective 7/11/10)
WAC 16-71-110 Vesicular stomatitis.
Equine that have been diagnosed with vesicular stomatitis will be held in quarantine with all exposed and susceptible species at the location where livestock were diagnosed until ((twenty-one)) fourteen days following the ((cessation of all clinical signs of disease)) last documented observation of new lesions in animals at that location.
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