Resolution 134-1975
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RESOLUTION NO~34 -1975
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
proposes to build a new animal import center on Fleming Key in
Monroe County, Florida, near the City of Key West, Florida, and
WHEREAS, the proposed Fleming Key animal import center will
be developed as a special off-shore facility through which live-
stock will be safely imported into the United States from countries
which the USDA considers infected with Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD),
Rinderpest, or certain other dis~es exotic to this country, and
WHEREAS, Fleming Key's isolation from livestock-producing
areas, coupled with stringent testing, would provide the safeguards
necessary to prevent introduction of these diseases into the United
States, and
WHEREAS, cattlemen have long sought such a facility to improve
United States breeding programs and thereby produce more beef more
efficiently for the consumers' table, and
WHEREAS, neither Foot and Mouth Disease (F}ID) nor Rinderpest
is a threat to human health, and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida, feels that the establishment of said facility on Fleming
Key will be of economic benefit to the citizens of Monroe County,
Florida, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA, that it hereby endorses and recommends that the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) establish and build
a new animal import center on Fleming Key, Monroe County, Florida for
the reasons hereinabove set forth.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY SAID BOARD that certified copies of
this resolution be forwarded to the Director of Administrative
Services Division, APHIS, Room 5148, South Building, USDA, Washington,
D.C. 20250.
DATED September 9, 1975.
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ThL: Resolution was adopted upon roll call vote results of which were:
Commissioner Howanitz Yes
Co~~i~si0ner Parke~ Yes
Commissioner Shipley No
COdmis2iu'1el' T.recisl No
Mayor Pri+:cu8r" Yes
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