9 CFR § 54.9 - Waiver of requirements for scrapie control pilot projects.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t9/s54.9"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "9 CFR § 54.9 - Waiver of requirements for scrapie control pilot projects."
title_number: 9
title_name: "Animals and Animal Products"
section_number: "54.9"
section_name: "Waiver of requirements for scrapie control pilot projects."
chapter_name: "ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "COOPERATIVE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF LIVESTOCK OR POULTRY DISEASES"
part_number: "54"
part_name: "CONTROL OF SCRAPIE"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4."
regulatory_source: "66 FR 43982, Aug. 21, 2001, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "54"
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# 54.9 Waiver of requirements for scrapie control pilot projects.

The Administrator may waive the following requirements of this part for participants in a scrapie control pilot project by recording the requirements waived in the scrapie control pilot project plan:

(a) The determination that an animal is a high-risk animal, if the scrapie control pilot project plan contains testing or other procedures that indicate that an animal, despite meeting the definition of high-risk animal, is unlikely to spread scrapie; and

(b) The requirement that high-risk animals must be removed from a flock if the scrapie control pilot project plan contains alternative procedures to prevent the further spread of scrapie without removing high-risk animals from the flock.