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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

You normally don't participate in our political discussions , Sage.  So, I'll 
let Lynn , or someone else, give you a non-political reason the gov't needs, 
for supposed security reason, to identify, and track preactically every 
animate and inanimate object in the world, including 'me' .

 I think centralized gov';t simply ,always, demands more and more control.  
But, I think Lynn is fairly familiar , atleast with the NAIS stuff __ Now 
both are kind of being combined ....bobford

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--- On Wed, 10/29/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] NAIS, APHIS Over 50% Preemises registerd in 13 
> states & Customss / APHIS
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:28 PM
> A botanist friend of mine here has been considering early 
> retirement. He works for APHIS, checking agricultural 
> products as they come through, mostly looking for plant 
> disease, which is his specialty. He used to oversee 14 
> junior botanists, but *they were all tapped for Homeland 
> Security* so he is trying to do the work of many and is 
> stressed out. I cannot understand why the government 
> wanted that many botanists in Homeland Security. Any 
> ideas?
> 
> --Sage
> 
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:52:29 -0700 (PDT)
>   bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > NAIS, APHIS Over 50% Preemises registerd in 13 states
> > 
> > "
> > 10/23/2008 1:04:00 PM 
> > 
> > 
> > Animal ID: 13 States Now Exceed 50 Percent Premises 
> >Registered
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2008--The U.S. Department of 
> >Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection
> Service 
> >(APHIS) today announced that 487,670 premises are 
> >registered nationwide as part of the National Animal 
> >Identification System (NAIS).
> >  
> > Producers registered more than 50,000 premises so far
> in 
> >2008 and 13 states now have at least 50 percent of
> their 
> >total estimated production premises registered through 
> >NAIS.  The latest state to go over 50 percent premises 
> >registration is Iowa.
> > 
> > “Premises registration is the foundation of the NAIS
> and 
> >allows us to better respond to animal health events in 
> >the United States,” said Bruce Knight, under
> secretary of 
> >USDA’s marketing and regulatory programs.  “The
> growth in 
> >premises registrations this year demonstrates that 
> >producers want to work with USDA to protect their 
> >animals, their livelihood and their communities.  I 
> >applaud those who have made the choice to register
> their 
> >premises.”
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The 13 states that have topped the 50 percent mark are
> 
> >Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Massachusetts,
> Nebraska, 
> >Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Utah,
> West 
> >Virginia and Wisconsin.  Illinois is very close to the
> 50 
> >percent mark, with 48.3 percent of its estimated 30,046
> 
> >premises registered.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Delaware now has more than 40 percent of its premises 
> >registered, while Alaska, Colorado and North Carolina
> now 
> >have more than 30 percent of their premises registered.
> 
> > Several other states have made significant gains in
> the 
> >number of premises registered.  During 2008,
> Mississippi 
> >tripled the number of registered premises, while Ohio 
> >more than doubled the number of registered premises in 
> >the state.  The number of registered premises in
> Alabama 
> >and South Carolina increased by more than 150 percent. 
> > Direct mail and outreach efforts to farmers and
> ranchers 
> >continue this fall to encourage additional
> registrations.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > USDA is working cooperatively with states, tribes and 
> >industry partners to implement NAIS, which is a modern,
> 
> >streamlined information system that helps producers 
> >respond quickly and effectively to animal disease
> events. 
> > It consists of three components:  premises
> registration, 
> >animal identification and tracing.  The premises 
> >registration component of NAIS ensures the availability
> 
> >of a nationwide communications network to assist 
> >producers and animal health officials in the event of
> an 
> >animal disease event.  There is an estimated 1.4
> million 
> >production premises in the United States.  To contact a
> 
> >partner or find out more about NAIS, go to 
> >www.usda.gov/NAIS."
> > 
> >
> http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=262959
> > 
> >
> *******************************************************************
> > 
> > Also;
> > 
> > 
> > US Customs to start enforcing APHIS
> > 
> > Starting tomorrow, Sept.30, 2008, US Customs and
> Border 
> >Protection will begin to monitor transit movements of 
> >agricultural commodities going across the border. The 
> >action is part of a Memorandum of Agreement between the
> 
> >U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the
> Department 
> >of Homeland Security (DHS).
> > 
> > All shipments of admissible, restricted, and
> prohibited 
> >plants and plant products moving as Transportation and 
> >Exportation (T&E), Immediate Export (IE), and
> Immediate 
> >Transfer at the time of entry (with the exception of
> cut 
> >flowers under the National Cut Flowers Release
> Program), 
> >will require a USDA-APHIS PPQ transit permit.
> > 
> > In addition, importers will be required to provide 
> >documentation to include invoices, phytosanitary 
> >certificates, shipper export declarations, outbound 
> >manifests, etc. as requested by CBP Agriculture.
> > 
> > It also requires annotating the APHIS permit number on
> 
> >the CBP 7512 (or equivalent QP style electronic 
> >transmission) in the "description and quantity of 
> >merchandise" block. Additionally, most APHIS
> transit 
> >permits will require the movement to be completed
> within 
> >4 days, CBP explains in a notice to the industry.
> > 
> > Immediate Transportation (IT) shipments are not
> affected 
> >by this APHIS announcement and will continue to be 
> >processed in accordance with existing guidelines. 
> > 
> > 
> > Source: todaystrucking.com
> > 
> > http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=29738
> > 
> > 
> > 
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