Wildlife Services; Availability of a Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Decision/Finding of No Significant Impact for Oral Rabies Vaccination Program

Samenvatting

We are advising the public that we have prepared a supplemental environmental assessment and proposed decision/finding of no significant impact relative to oral rabies vaccination programs in several States. Since the publication of our original environmental assessment and decision/finding of no significant impact (2001), a subsequent supplemental decision/finding of no significant impact (2002), a supplemental environmental assessment and decision/finding of no significant impact (2003), and an environmental assessment and decision/finding of no significant impact (2004) concerning expansion to National Forest System lands, we have determined there is a need to further expand the oral rabies vaccination program to include 26 States and the District of Columbia to effectively stop the westward and northward spread of the rabies virus across the United States and into Canada. The purpose of the supplemental environmental assessment and proposed decision/finding of no significant impact is to facilitate planning, interagency coordination, and program management and to provide the public with our analysis of potential individual and cumulative impacts of an expanded oral rabies vacci