WASHINGTON — The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection service has released its final programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for outbreak response to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in poultry.
“Keeping our nation’s poultry operations free from HPAI helps protect the poultry industry, farmers’ livelihoods, the availability of poultry and poultry products for U.S. consumers, international trade, the health of wild birds, and the health people who are in close, regular contact with poultry,” said the notice in the Federal Register.
The final programmatic EIS expresses the need and purpose for action through three different. . .
APHIS prepares final EIS guide for HPAI outbreak response
By Emily Parcell - Poultry Times Content Writer, emilyparcell@poultrytimes.com

