Source: USDA, 5/9/17

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
SUMMARY: The United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS) is delaying the effective date of the rule published on January 19, 2017, for an additional
six months to November 14, 2017, to allow time for further consideration by USDA. The
effective date for this rule was initially March 20, 2017, and was subsequently delayed to May
19, 2017, by a document published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2017. The final rule
amends the organic livestock and poultry production requirements by adding new provisions for
livestock handling and transport for slaughter and avian living conditions; and expands and
clarifies existing requirements covering livestock care and production practices and mammalian
living conditions.
DATES: The effective date of the final rule published on January 19, 2017 (82 FR 7042),
delayed until May 19, 2017, on February 9, 2017 (82 FR 9967), is further delayed until
November 14, 2017

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