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Environmental Assessment Issued on Rabies Control
New York Ag Connection - 05/26/2020

Wildlife Services (WS), a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), has issued a Decision and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for an Environmental Assessment (EA) that evaluated potential impacts to the quality of the human environment from the continued and expanded APHIS-WS oral rabies vaccination programs using the ONRAB wildlife rabies vaccine to eliminate or stop the spread of raccoon rabies variant in the eastern United States and prevent the reintroduction of the dog-coyote rabies variants from Mexico in the southwestern United States.

The "Oral Vaccination to Control Specific Rabies Virus Variants with Human Adenovirus Type 5 Vector" decision impacts Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and West Virginia

Based on the analyses contained in the EA and the associated Decision/FONSI, WS concluded that implementation of the proposed action alternative (Alternative 2) would not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment. A Decision and FONSI was issued on December 23, 2019 selecting to implement the proposed action alternative.

WS published its Notice in the Federal Register. Interested parties may obtain a copy of the Decision/FONSI via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov/docket?D=APHIS-2019-0034. If you would like a copy of the Decision/FONSI sent to you by mail, please submit a written request to USDA, APHIS, Wildlife Services, 59 Chennel Drive, suite 2, Concord, NH 03301 or by facsimile to (603) 229-0502. When submitting a request by mail or fax, please include a mailing address.

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