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OGC-97-43 1 (1997-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablqw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-276990 May 27, 1997 The Honorable Richard G. Lugar Chairman The Honorable Tom Harkin Ranking Minority Member Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate The Honorable Bob Smith Chairman The Honorable Charles W. Stenholm Ranking Minority Member Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives Subject: Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Importation of Pork from Sonora, Mexico Pursuant to section 801(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, entitled Importation of Pork from Sonora, Mexico (RIN: 0579-AA71). We received the rule on May 7, 1997. It was published in the Federal Register as a final rule on May 9, 1997. 62 Fed. Reg. 25439. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending the regulations concerning the importation of animal products to allow, under certain conditions, the importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen pork from the State of Sonora, Mexico. The agency states that the change is in keeping with provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as it removes unnecessary restrictions on such importation. The agency's decision to consider Sonora a region from which fresh pork could be imported with a negligible risk of introducing or disseminating hog cholera was based on an analysis of a number of risk factors detailed in the supplementary information published with the final rule. In addition, the agency will require an authorized Mexican government official to certify that pork exported from Sonora GAO/OGC-97-43

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